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Letting your reader know where your achievements took place
To relieve the fears of the employer and still use the functional format, categorize the achievement statements under your skill headings according to where they happened. That way the employer can easily reference your subheadings with your Work History at the bottom of the page.
Carmen Bishop's functional hybrid (following) took advantage of the functional format and put the reader's mind at rest by organizing her achievements under job-title subheadings. Her resume clearly shows that she has the sales and project management skills to fulfill the employer's expectations.
Job-Hunt Hint
Subheadings of the functional hybrid can be either the names of the organizations where your accomplishments took place or the job titles that you held when you completed your achievements.
Terms of Employment A red flag is anything on your resume that looks fishy to employers and might cause them to discard your resume.
Giving Order to Chaos
Having a complicated work history (one that has concurrent employment, short-term jobs, or gaps) is one reason to use a functional resume, because it downplays the sequence of events and throws the spotlight on the important stuff: your transferable skills.
But eventually the reader is going to notice that your Work history is complex. By using the functional hybrid with company subheadings (which don't have dates in them), you can help the employer easily make sense of an otherwise confusing presentation. For example, Todd Grey used subheadings under his skill headings to clarify what took place where and to gather several projects under one logical subheading. Nice touch!
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