Chronological |
- Widely used format
- Logical flow, easy to read
- Showcases growth in skills and responsibility
- Easy to prepare
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- Emphasizes gaps in employment
- Not suitable if you have no work history
- Highlights frequent job changes
- Emphasizes employment but not skill development
- Emphasizes lack of related experience and career changes
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- Individuals with steady work record
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Functional |
- Emphasizes skills rather than employment
- Organizes a variety of experience (paid and unpaid work, other activities)
- Disguises gaps in work record or a series of short-term jobs
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- Viewed with suspicion by employers due to lack of information about specific employers and dates
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- Individuals with no previous employment
- Individuals with gaps in employment
- Frequent job changers
- Individuals who have developed skills from other than documented employment
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Combination |
- Highlights most relevant skills and accomplishments
- De-emphasizes employment history in less relevant jobs
- Combines skills developed in a variety of jobs or other activities
- Minimizes drawbacks such as employment gaps and absence of directly related experience
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- Confusing if not well organized
- De-emphasizes job tasks, responsibilities
- Requires more effort and creativity to prepare
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- Career changers or those in transition
- Individuals reentering the job market after some absence
- Individuals who have grown in skills and responsibility
- Individuals pursuing the same or similar work as they’ve had in the past
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