There are 4 main types of resumes: effective, functional, and chronological. Resumes are self-marketing tools tailored to your career objective that focus the interviewer's attention on your strongest skills and experiences. The types differ in how information is presented, with chronological listing experiences by date, functional highlighting only relevant skills, and effective selectively choosing important facts.

1. Resumes
4 Main Types
Effective, Functional, and
Chronological

2. • A resume gets you the job you are after
Definition of Resume

3. • Professional
• Is a self-marketing tool tailored to your career objective
• Focuses the interviewer’s attention on your strongest
point
Types of Resumes

4. • Gathering and processing of the data you need for
your resume
• This resume is built from carefully chosen data
Effective Resume

5. • Selective and only highlights those skills pertinent to
your job objective
• Valuable information only which means only
important facts
Functional Resume

6. • Orderly experiences by date
• The combining of all employment history simply
written in order by starting with the most recent
Chronological Resume

7. • The differences are in the way the information is
presented
• Chronological is in order
• Professional focuses the audience to your major points
• Effective gathers and processes your information
• Functional only highlights the valuable information
The differences in the
Types

8. Name
Address
Phone
number
Resume Career
objective
Professional
profile
Educational
information
Description
Employment
history

9. percents
knowledge about resumes
knowledge about writing a resume
knowledge about the purpose of a
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has used a resume