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In this modern day, writing a resume should be easy. By doing a simple Google search, you are able to find millions of sites with resume samples and templates. Ironically, even with technology assistance, resume writing that is supposed to be easy, the quality of the written resume is not up the expectation to deliver the result that many job seekers need.

In Malaysia, one of the common resume format used comes from Jobstreet. With all respect to Jobstreet for their good service & excellent opportunities to job seekers in Malaysia, but sorry to say I do find their resume format to be boring and unattractive. Even the format is not so suitable to be used for all job seekers. Anyway, in today’s article, I’m not going to criticize Jobstreet’s resume format but more on sharing my experience and knowledge on how to effectively choose a suitable resume format or template to fit your career needs.

Just to recap on what I have shared before, resume can be written in 3 common formats which are chronological, functional and chrono-functional format. Today, I’ll elaborate about chronological format.

Chronological resume format

For those who are familiar with Jobstreet’s resume format will realize that the resume format is actually using chronological format.

In my previous article, I wrote that chronological format is not suitable for those job seekers with working experience less than 3 years, fresh graduate, job hopper & prolong unemployement . This is because, this format focuses on your working experience chronologically and any of the stated situation above it will obviously reflect that you are not experience or reliable enough to take up challenging job responsibilities. So imagine if you have working experience that is less than 3 years and blindly using chronological resume format even though you have impressive track records, you chances to attract and convince your future employer to call you up for an interview will be slim. In my coming article, I’ll be sharing about another resume format that is appropriate to be used by those with the above stated situation which is functional format.

In the link below you can download a sample of a chronological resume format. Typically, this format will consist of the following components (not in any particular sequence order except for your name & contact info):

• personal information (full name)

• contact information (mailing address, contact phone # & e-mail)

• career objective (specific/general kind of job you want & your contribution capability)

• career summary/profile (summarize your career history)

• education history

• chronological description of job history/professional

• experience including achivements

• reference (optional/upon request) 

Click here: Sample -Chronological resume

You can download this copy for your future reference

Chronological format is an effective resume format to showcase your working experience. At the same time, by listing down your achievements for each of your working experience, you are able to show that you have the capability to deliver results which is one of the look after criteria by most of the employers. Use this format wisely to your advantage.

If you have any other enquiries about chronological resume format or experience to share, feel free to share it in the comments below. 

Till then,

Take care

Regards

Yusoff