Combination of Chronological and Achievement Resume
A Chronological/Achievement Resume is easy to develop if you've already written your Achievement and Chronological resumes. The section of the resume where you detail your work experience is generally headed Experience and Selected Accomplishments. You can use the material you prepared for the other two resumes plus your resume work sheets to put this one together. Begin the usual way: name, address and telephone numbers. Next comes your old friend, the job title and the thumbnail sketch. Third is the Experience and Selected Accomplishments.
The positions are listed in the same order as on a Chronological Resume-most recent to those in the past. List the company, your position, then the description of your duties, responsibilities and/or functions (from the Chronological Resume). Tighten this section as much as you can-you shouldn't have more than four or five lines of text. Indented underneath the job description, arrange three or four of your achievements at that position. Place the most important accomplishment first and the second most important one last. Your most recent position should have the longest description and the most accomplishments. Decrease the job description and the number of accomplishments as you go back in time.
Complete the rest of the resume exactly as you would any other resume. Include education, honors, awards, patents and publications (if these were not included as accomplishments), professional and business affiliations, military service, and personal information (if desired). You do not need the business affiliation heading, because this heading is covered in your Experience and Selected Achievements heading.
Professional or Technical Resume
A professional or technical resume is used in three instances; (1) If you are a professional (engineer, researcher, computer analyst, etc.) who has been working on a project basis, or in an area where you must have a high degree of specific job related skills; (2) If you are a consultant who has worked on a large number of projects for a variety of clients; or (3) If you are highly skilled in a particular area, but have had a number of employers. The purpose of this type of resume is to highlight your professional or technical skills, while showing the range of your ability to apply those skills.
You describe these skills slightly differently, depending upon whether you were a consultant, or whether you worked on staff for the particular firm. In each instance, begin with the job title and thumbnail sketch.
Follow these with a section titled Areas of Expertise, Professional Skills, Special Skills, Skills Areas, Special Competencies, or some other title that highlights the special knowledge which you possess. This section is a list, not an explanation, unless your special skill requires that. You would also include any licenses in this section. The next section is a variation on the Achievement Resume. It is titled Projects Completed, Selected Projects, Major Projects, and Projects Completed for Clients or Major Project Participation. (Note: In many technical fields, individuals participate collegially on a project, and unless you were the general manager for the project and could take full credit, you are stuck describing the project and your contribution to it. Employers looking for your special kind of expertise are fully aware of this. You simply have to make the project sound interesting.) If you received patent(s) or are published, include these in a small section titled Special Accomplishments and Awards. A section on education follows, including any educational honors. The resume can end with a heading titled Selected List of Clients, Company Affiliations, or a similar title which is illustrative of the information contained in the section. You do not list any job titles in conjunction with this listing. You do not include any personal information in a professional resume.
Curriculum Vitae
The Curriculum Vitae is a special resume used only by professional educators of all levels and by researchers working in an environment in which achievement is measured by your educational attainments, what you have published, and the number of presentations you have made.
(These are usually the first three headings.) After these attainments, the jobs are usually dispensed of in a section titled Positions Held, which is a listing of the schools or places you worked, and the job title, in descending chronological order (most recent to least recent).
The job titles in education generally tell exactly what you did.
However, you can add to this section if you did anything unusual in that position, or received a special honor. If you are trying to make a career transition from business to education, this is the format you must use.
Typically, the thumbnail sketch is not included. Do keep in mind, though, that you should not down-rate your accomplishments. For executives who happen to be working in education, the Curriculum Vitae format, which is expected by boards of education, can be restrictive. You might want to prepare the Curriculum Vitae and expand the Positions Held section with accomplishments. For further help with this kind of resume, check in the education section of the library for assistance.