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Understand Resume Format – Hybrid Resume

Sunday, June 14, 2009 13:29 No Comments

In Wikipedia; the meaning of hybrid is the combination of two or more different things, aimed at achieving a particular objective or goal. The word hybrid is famously used for cars with dual power source; petrol and electricity. Similarly to resume, when the features of chronological & functional resume are combined, it is called a [...]

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Understand resume format – Functional resume

Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:56 No Comments

By definition, functional means the act of defining or making definite, distinct, or clear (adapted from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/definition). Hence by leveraging the functional definition itself, functional resume is simply a well defining resume. Yes it is and it is one of my favourite resume formats.
 
Comparing functional with chronological resume
 
Functional resume focuses on your skill & [...]

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Understand resume format – Chronological resume

Monday, September 1, 2008 9:02 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Writing an effective resume – understand resume format

Sunday, July 6, 2008 22:42 No Comments

Unfortunately again in this weekend, I can only publish 1 article. As I mentioned in my last week’s article, for the next 2 weeks I’m quite tight up with my preparation for the UITM career talk. Anyway, I’m committed to continue the CMS sharing through this blog so I will slot in some of my time [...]

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Resume 101 – Part 2

Monday, May 19, 2008 9:12 No Comments

What is the function a resume?
 
Farrah, thank you for your valuable comment. Yes, I agree with you that resume is not just a piece of paper with information about yourself, it is also a representative of yourself (your 1st impression to your potential employer).
 
In Part 1, we knew that resume is such a very common [...]

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Resume 101 – Part 1

Saturday, May 17, 2008 10:19 2 Comments

I did a Google search for the word resume and I’m impressed to know in 0.10 sec (depending on your connection speed)J, there are 227,000,000 sites available with the word resume in it.
  
I’m still curious to know more so I did another Google search under the book category. As expected, in 0.17 sec (but slightly [...]

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