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!
Todd Grey
123 Whirevilla, Austin, TX 345, (123)123-1234, anthony_wright@net.com
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER
- 20 years experience directing complex organizational and technological changes.
- Recognized leadership skills and natural talent for relating to people of various ethnic, socioeconomic and educational background.
- Customer-focused management style.
- Ability to find innovative solutions to resource constraints.
QUALITY MANAGEMENT ACCOMPLISHMENT
- Implemented two major organizational changes in U.S. Air force and human resources management administration. Commanded for relocating and retraining personnel while maintaining quality customer service.
- Directed the conversion from hierarchical to relational information system at the U.S. Air force Facilities. recognized by technical team for using effective training and internal marketing to achieve management and staff “buy-in” of this major changes.
- Developed a self-directed team to conduct process analysis in preparation for decentralization of 35 Medicare process operations. Trained staff in theoretical and practical aspect of process improvement.
- Improved goal tracking at U.S. Air Force Facilities by analyzing the workload evaluation processes, assessing its validity, and convincing headquarters to receive the methodology.
WORK HISTORY
| 1997 – Present | Medicare, Austin | Program Manager, 1999-present Senior Budget Analyst, 1997-1999 |
| 1980-1997 | U.S. Airbase, Austin | Director Workload Analysis, 1986-1997 Program Analyst, 1983-1987 Accounting Manager, 1980-1983 |
EDUCATION
B.S., Organizational Behavior, Austin State college, 1993
