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How to make the value of your experience obvious to an employer
Name-dropping is the name of the game. Look for opportunities to enhance your imageby slipping in names of impressive people, companies, or organizations.
Warning! Functional Resume Ahead
Many times functional resume writers make the mistake of writing accomplishment statements without indicating where the achievements took place. This practice makes potential employers uneasy because they have no way of confirming the experience. The solution? Give each accomplishment credibility by saying where it happened. Here are three ways to indicate where your success took place:
- Incorporate the name of the organization or your position into the sentence: Managed Harrington Department Store's $1.5 million budget. Collaborated with executives to create a new marketing strategy, as member of the St.Francis Board of Directors.
- Reference the organization or your position at the end of the statement:
- Managed budget of $1.5 million. (Harrington Department Store)
- Collaborated with executives to create a new marketing strategy. (St. Francis Board ofDirectors)
- Group achievements together according to where they happened, still keeping them within skill categories. This kind of organization, in effect, becomes a hybrid resume based on a functional format.
Bonus Check
A well-crafted functional resume that makes it clear where the job seeker's achievementstook place can win over employers, even those who claim not to like functional resumes.