Below you will find an example of functional resume for professional who is highlighting three major areas: administrative support, customer service and management.
This sample starts with summary of qualifications to put emphasis on skills in customer service, word processing, computers, accounting, data archiving, office, telephone reception and problem solving.
Rather than listing specific details, the job seeker lists responsibilities and achievements under the three main highlighted areas. The employment history is simply listed underneath the functional areas followed by education, training and other complementary sections.
Functional Resume Example – Sample
Functional Resume Example – Writing Tips
In most cases, you will want to use a Reverse – Chronological resume format. However, there are times when a functional resume format is more appropriate.
If you have some gaps in your employment history or you jumped around jobs then this type of resume may be more effective. As an example, you may be a graphic designer for 5 years but then took a customer service job for 2 years. Now you decide you want to target graphic design jobs, so it would be helpful to focus on the function of graphics work and downplay the customer service work.
Another reason for using a functional resume is during a career change. In this case, you want to really focus your resume on transferable skills. If you are in customer service and changing to sales, then focus on the communication skills, relationship development, documentation.
One last reason to use a functional resume is when you have career with many jobs but your duties and responsibilities were exactly the same. So rather than repeat them in each job, you just write your functional responsibilities in a summary at the top then include a list of achievements throughout your career. This can also be beneficial if you had some really good achievements mid-career that you don’t want to bury in the experience section on page 2.
Other Functional Resumes:
Examples of Functional Resumes by SusanIreland.com
Functional Resume Samples by Career Advice – Monster
