Resume Types and Appearance
Resume Types
- CHRONOLOGICAL RESUME: This format organizes your experience in reverse chronological order. It is the most frequently used type of resume, is often recommended for students and recent college graduates, and is preferred by most employers.
- FUNCTIONAL RESUME: This format highlights your skill areas and emphasizes what you have done rather than when and where you did it. Often recommended for people who have very diverse work backgrounds or are changing careers. Work experience is included, but that section follows the function section. A pure functional resume is often viewed with suspicion by employers.
- COMBINATION RESUME: A hybrid version of the chronological and functional formats allows you to group your experience and skills by function, then list specific accomplishments in reverse chronological order. This format works best when you wish to highlight abilities not used in recent work experience. Employers are familiar with this type of resume.
Appearance
- Preferred font size is 10-12 point; your name should appear larger (14-16 point).
- Choose a natural tone paper; white or off-white is preferred.
- One page is strongly preferred by employers for students and recent graduates.
- Use standard fonts: Helvetica, Times, Palatino.
- Make effective use of spacing, margins, and bolding on your page.
- Emphasize points with bullets, UPPER CASE, bold, Italics, and underlining.
- Final copy should be laser printed.
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