How to Cover Up Professional Short Comings in a Resume

If you have switched jobs quite often, worked in a mediocre firm, freelanced most of your life or are considering a significantly different career industry you need to consider an alternate format for your resume. Remember the resume is an opportunity to display your suitability for a potential job and to receive an interview offer. If a prospective employer sees that you have not been able to settle down long enough in any one job or that you are constantly altering your field he or she might get the impression that you are not fit to handle a serious job. So what do you do?

People who fit the above criteria should use a functional, as opposed to the regular chronological resume. A chronological resume draws attention to your career progression and accomplishments on a time line with the recent work experience listed at the top. The advantage of using a functional resume is that the dates of employment are played down and focus is switched! instead to your skills and abilities. Your skills need to be supported by concrete evidence and the task of impressing a prospective employer could become somewhat harder. There are further disadvantages as well.



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