From the course: Writing a Resume
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The functional resume
- Functional resumes, elicit many questions. And the biggest one is what is a functional resume? But before we answer that question, do you know what a chronological resume is? Today I'm going to help you learn the appropriate terminology for your resume of choice. How to tell the difference between a chronological and a functional resume? And when to use one instead of the other. Odds are that if you have a resume, it is in a chronological format. This means that your professional experience is placed on your resume in the order that it happened. Although with resumes, your most current experience is most important. And therefore it appears first, which is actually in reverse chronological order. I mentioned this so I can compare it with the functional resume, which works a little differently. Your professional experience is displayed by function and skill rather than by the date you performed the function. The…
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