Create An Effective Resume Page 31
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Sections of the Resume: Employment History
Chronological Resume
- Dates, position, location and experience
Functional Resume
- Does not include an employment history
Combination Resume
- Dates, position and location
Targeted Resume
- Will use any of the above formats but will be specifically tailored to the Objective
This portion of the resume is probably the most important. Depending on the style you
select, it will dictate where and how you will organize the information. To make this
process easier to understand, there are several examples of each format in the TAP
manual. There are many books that provide example resumes. See the transition
website for specific recommendations.
To begin exploring your employment history, write down everything you can about what
you did in a specific job. Include:
• skills
• accomplishments
• machines you can operate;
• computer software you can run
• improvements you suggested or made in a process or system
Try to include specific and quantifiable data. Once you have written a paragraph or
pages of information, find qualifications relating to the job you are seeking. If the job you
are seeking is an entirely new field, but uses a lot of the specific skills from your past
experience, consider putting information into categories. An example would be if you
have been a Military Police Officer and want to go into private investigation, you could
group bullet statements under categories such as investigation, case management, and
security to create a combination resume. Or, if you were an electronics technician for
the past four years in the military plus worked in the same field for two years prior to
joining, and want to go into the same field of work, then you would write a chronological
resume to show stability and progressive job responsibilities.
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