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What is The combination or modified chronological resume merges the chronological and functional
styles, grouping knowledge, skills, and abilities and presenting them in reverse chronological
the
purpose? order. This resume format highlights your skills and experiences. It enables you to feature
related experiences, and to move to relevant jobs that would ordinarily be listed after less
relevant ones to the top of the work experience section.
Tip Sheet: Combination Resume Type
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Who
could
benefit?
Students, New Graduates and Entry-Level Job Seekers: This allows job seekers to
emphasize their skills rather than their short-lived employment history.
Workers with a steady, consistent employment history: The addition of a qualifications
summary identifies the top qualifications for the job objective so employers readily see it's
a good match.
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Applicants re-entering the Job Market: This takes a little bit of emphasis off the fact that
you have not been working for a while.
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Career Changers: Unless you're making a radical career change, in which case a
functional resume probably makes more sense.
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Seasoned Workers: Workers with extensive employment history need to sell their
strongest qualifications; inclusion of a summary section provides that focus
A combination resume includes an objective, career summary or summary of qualifications,
professional accomplishments, work history, and education.
What to
include
and how
to
format?
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Lead with a career summary (also commonly called a qualifications summary or skills
summary) that emphasizes your strongest credentials. By stating your key qualifications at
the beginning of your resume, you will entice hiring managers to read the rest of your
resume. You can incorporate your job objective, key skills, and areas of expertise,
accomplishment highlights and related training into the summary section.
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Skills are emphasized under skill headings, with a description of functional skills and related
qualifications followed by a reverse-chronological employment history and education
section
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Follow with a reverse chronological employment and education history; which most
employers prefer.
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Replace the "Work Experience" heading with a description about the type of experience. Be
consistent by using either all nouns or all adjectives for your headings; see Sample
Experience Headings online.
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Be sure that the theme word you use to describe each Experience section is descriptive of
aspects of the job you stated in your objective.
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Keep in mind that because you've included a career summary, you will have less room for
your work history.
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Other sections on a combination resume depend on your specific experience, but can
include education, training, affiliations, languages and additional/miscellaneous
information.
Examples
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