Question

A résumé is a summary of your employment, education, and skills. Most positions require an application and a résumé. Résumés are presented in a chronological format, skills format, or functional format. A résumé that presents career-related experience and highlights achievements in any order is a resume Consider the following example Amber is a senior financial manager with more than twenty years of experience in accounting and finance in a global organization. Amber started her career in public accounting and has held numerous leadership positions that she would like to tout in a résumé. Amber's résumé lists her previous positions with her current position listed first. What type of résumé does this sound like? O Chronological Functional O skills

Answer 1

As defined above, A resume is a summery document about a person’s employment, education and skills. A resume represents overview of a candidate to employer and based on resume employer select the candidate or short-list the candidate for next level of selection procedure.

Depends on requirement or Individual’s experience, resume may be written in following three formats.

1. Chronological Format

A chronological resume starts with work history and list most recent position first. This type of resume preferable to a person having strong work history.

2. Functional Format

This resume highlights your experience and abilities rather than your work history. However, you may add your work history at bottom of this resume. This type of resume preferable to a person who have gap in employment history or changing career.

3. Skills Format

This resume focuses on your skill set such as Tax Return filings, Accounting, MS-Excel etc. This type of resume preferable to freshers.

1. A resume that presents career related experience and highlights achievements in any order is a Functional resume.

2. Chronological is Correct option.

As Amber lists her previous positions (work history) with her current positions listed first.