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| *Ostroff, Fair and Company>>>Law & Legal |
What would you do about this - returning to previous job field..? |
I have approximately 16 years experience as a legal secretary. I left the field over 6 years ago and went different avenues (manufacturing - lay offs, etc.) -- I've decided I want to return. Unfortunately, if I did my resume to show these jobs, I'd have to go too far back and I've had some bad luck over the years. I DO have impressive letters of recommendation from when I worked in law....but the resume is the issue at this time -- how would you work around this if you wanted to return to a previous career? Try a fuctional resume which will focus more on your skills rather than experiences. Should You Consider a Functional Format for Your Resume? Printer-Friendly Version by Katharine Hansen Today's resumes generally fall into one of two broad categories. They are either chronological (actually reverse chronological, listing all your experience from most to least recent) and functional, which lists experience in skills clusters. If you're planning to create your resume for the first time or update your old resume, you might wonder whether a functional format is right for you. Among jobseekers who should consider a functional format: Those with very diverse experiences that don't add up to a clear-cut career path. College students with minimal experience and/or experience unrelated to their chosen career field. Career-changers who wish to enter a field very different from what all their previous experience points to. Those with gaps in their work history, such as homemakers who took time to raise and family and now wish to return to the workplace. For them, a chronological format can draw undue attention to those gaps, while a functional resume enables them to portray transferable skills attained through such activities as domestic management and volunteer work. Military transitioners entering a different field from the work they did in the military. Job-seekers whose predominate or most relevant experience has been unpaid, such as volunteer work or college activities (coursework, class projects, extracurricular organizations, and sports). Those who performed very similar activities throughout their past jobs who want to avoid repeating those activities in a chronological job listing. Job-seekers looking for a position for which a chronological listing would make them look "overqualified." Older workers seeking to deemphasize a lengthy job history Source(s): http://www.quintcareers.com/functional_r... |
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