Question:
If you're uncomfortable with the number of positions
that show on your resume, switch to a functional rather
than chronological format. Then prospective employers
will never be able to tell how long you've held any of
your jobs.
Answer:
-Every time I've tried a functional resume, the hiring managers look at it
funny, like it was a foreign language, and ask me how long I spent where.
But it's been a while. Maybe I should try again.
I'm sure not having much luck this year finding ANY writing jobs in my area.
-Aside from my functional resume being far too long (I really need to cut it),
I've only had one instance in which a recruiter wanted a chronological resume instead.
I don't believe it's ever really posed a problem for me. My two cents.
- a functional resume isn't mainstream and won't be
acceptable to prissy little HR ladies at big
stuffy corporations, so if wearing a blue
suit suits you, don't represent yourself as "outside the
box". But I always used it to filter employers, so I told
those that called for a chrono that I just didn't have one
-A functional resume, while we're on the subject, is a nice thing but you
immediately get asked to submit an employment history and, from a hiring
perspective, you become concerned that the potential employee is trying to
hide periods of unemployment for evil purposes
