By Priscilla Smith
ResumeProWriters
May 21, 2007

You advertise with your resume…nothing more, nothing less.
Begin with an objective statement that greatly underscores your qualifications and goals, including how you meet employer needs. Be a bit cautious when adding more objective statements, although you might need to do so. Remember: you only have 10 to 20 seconds to impress readers.

It will be good to ask yourself: What are your most important qualifications, expertise, and strengths? Position(s) applied for? career goals and objectives? preferred organizational setup?

Focusing on the message of your “ad”, position yourself in such a way that you spell a big difference, while others are indirectly treated as second rate.

The layout of your resume must appear specially inviting, too. Working out on the layout means that you are also fusing a fitting format for your paper!

CHRONOLOGICAL FORMAT

A chronological resume format emphasizes employment history. This traditional format also underlines your job titles, places, and dates of employment. To many employers, the chronological resume is the ideal format. But the functional resume is a valuable substitute if the former becomes unsuitable to you.

FUNCTIONAL FORMAT

Your experience, labeled “skills” or “areas of expertise” is shown in the functional resume. The list of work history here is more concise and is separated from your achievements.
All the best in choosing which of the two basic resume formats will work for you! Your resume, your ad, largely depends on this choice.