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Chapter 14

A Functional Hybrid

That Makes Sense

In This Chapter
➤ Turning the employer’s questions about a functional resume into a positive
exclamation
➤ Knowing when to use the functional hybrid

➤ Letting your reader know where your achievements took place
➤ Creating your own functional hybrid resume

There aren’t any limits to how creative you can be with your resume format. Sure, there are
guidelines of what to do and what not to do, but it’s your marketing piece, and you can be
innovative with it!
So far, you’ve learned about four resume formats: functional, chronological, achievement,
and chronological hybrid. Hang on to your marketing hats a little longer—you’re about to
discover one more: the functional hybrid. In this chapter, you’ll see how to design a func-
tional hybrid resume and figure out whether it’s the right format for you.

The Skillful Hybrid

You might be the ideal candidate for using the functional resume (based on what you
learned in Chapter 5, “Get Functional”), but you may be worried that the functional resume
won’t be well received by a conservative employer. In that case, you could start with the
basic functional layout and add subheadings composed of the name of the company where
your achievements took place. This functional hybrid has enough of the characteristics of the
traditional chronological resume to please your conservative potential employer.
The functional hybrid looks very much like a straight functional format. Its Work History
section is concise and placed at the bottom of the page; achievement statements are catego-
rized according to skill headings in the body of the resume. What makes it a hybrid is that