{"id":897,"date":"2020-03-12T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T12:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/?p=897"},"modified":"2020-06-02T18:19:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T12:49:36","slug":"resume-written-functionally-chronologically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/resume-written-functionally-chronologically\/","title":{"rendered":"Should my resume be written functionally or chronologically?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chronological order<\/strong> means listing writing your <em>career summary<\/em> from the very first step to the most recent one and a functional one means writing the relevant experiences and skills first then writing a brief career summary later on.<\/p>\n<p>When you have to choose between the two, it will depend on your current career situation.<\/p>\n<p>If you have worked in the <em>same industry<\/em> for a long time and have had a pretty regular work period, <strong>chronological resumes<\/strong> will work for you.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if you are switching directions in your career, have had a <em>gap in<\/em> <em>between job<\/em>, looking to <em>restart your career<\/em> or don\u2019t have the <em>normal background for the job,<\/em> then you might want to use the <strong>functional<\/strong> <strong>format<\/strong> as it lists all your relevant information at the very beginning thus, helping you avoid the <strong>rejection pile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronological order means listing writing your career summary from the very first step to the most recent one and a functional one means writing the relevant experiences and skills first then writing a brief career summary later on. When you have to choose between the two, it will depend on [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[140,31,308,141,30,28],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queries","tag-chronological","tag-customized-resume","tag-cv-formats","tag-functional","tag-professional-resume-formats","tag-resume-formats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}