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Summary: A functional resume is typically used by an individual that has years of experience, and they often make it look like there is a gap in work history. Avoid creating glaring omissions in a functional resume with help from the assistant director of a university career center in this free video on functional resumes.
Leslie Wright is one of two assistant directors of the career center at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and acts as liaison to the Cameron School of Business. She...read more
"Functional resumes, basically what we encourage people to do and I'll kind of take a step back real quick and say that functional resumes are typically used for people that have some experience, have years of experience. I would not encourage a traditionally aged graduating senior to use a functional resume. Typically it might be an alumnus returning after a few years who maybe has gotten laid off, maybe it's a nontraditional student who has had some experience maybe military so just to kind of clarify that we are basically taking that reverse chronological resume and reading it and kind of if you will quite literally cutting and pasting bullets out of that reverse chronological resume and pasting those functional areas into each function. So I may have had three jobs historically where I have done management and supervision. I may have had two jobs where I had some great technology that I learned so you are going to be actually putting the functional areas first in sort of the middle section of the resume and then once you are finished writing those, those targeted functional areas that the recruiter is asking for. Next you are going to be having the experience section and it's going to be just a quick and dirty review of where I worked, when I worked and how long did I work there so the name of the company, the job title, the location and the date and that is it. The functional area is going to be what is going to lend the strengths of the resume. Now warning about this, sometimes when functional resumes are presented to a recruiter it may look like there may be a gap in their work history so it's going to force the recruiter. Once the resume has been forwarded on to the recruiter it is going to force him to look very, very, very long and hard at that work history. So if there is a gap it is clearly going to stand out so just be very, very careful about talking about what's on your resume, what's on your resume is always going to be confronted in an interview and what's not on your resume is also going to be confronted. So just be very careful about what is on it and what's not, glaring omissions we call them. So that is something to really think about so I would say before you actually use your resume have multiple eyes look at it."
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