TO MANY UNRELATED JOBS - HOW TO CREATE A

   FOCUSED RESUME THAT WILL SHOW YOUR VALUE

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If you have too many unrelated jobs, you risk coming across as unfocused, a job-hopper and a flight risk. This is a real concern because it costs a company a lot of money and resources to hire an new employee.

So how do you overcome this obstacle?

You should start with a strategic resume. It can be a hybrid / functional format. This way the focus is on what you do rather than the job titles and industries. There are a few ways to approach this.

A functional resume will list skills-based categories such as Staff Supervision and Training, Sales, Marketing, etc. This format will place the chronology in a separate section.

A hybrid resume will lend itself to theme-based sub-categories and functional sections within the framework of a chronology - hence, a combination resume, which combines the elements of a chronological and functional format. Hybrid is just another name for it.

Okay, so now that you've decided that you are going to use these fancy resume strategies -- you need to know what to present in the way of information.

The first thing to do is to review the requirements of a job ad and ask yourself, have I done this? If yes, make a few notes about what you've done and for what employer. Before long, you will have a good amount of information for your new resume. Now you need to decide on three or four functional areas that seem to describe these experiences. That will determine your branding statement at the top, as well well as the categories that you will use and the keywords.