Fillable Printable Functional Resume Template Sample
Fillable Printable Functional Resume Template Sample
Functional Resume Template Sample
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Santa Barbara City College Career Center
Functional Résumé Template
(Use this format as a starting point or guideline for creatin g your résumé)
Name
Address
City, State Zip Code
(Area Code) Phone Number
E-mail Address
OBJECTIVE
A statement about the position you want, for example:
Accounting Manager
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Several brief phrases about your most relevant qualifications for the position, for example:
• More than three years acco unting experience
• Developed interpersonal skills, having dealt with a diversity of professionals, clients, and staff
members
RELEVANT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Present your work experience by listing your most important skills and experience which pertain to the
job for which you are applying. Then describe several activities and accomplishments from all your jobs
and life experiences, to document each of these skills. For example:
Accounts Payable/Receivable
• Audited documents to include expense reports, invoices, and check requests for payment
• Documented “proofed” checks and moneys from deposit and coordinated with other departments
to resolve problems with checks that failed to clear
• Maintained total outstanding payable balance, including collection of outstanding credits
Another Relevant Skill or Special Knowledge Area
• Something I did using this skill
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Another Relevant Skill or Special Knowledge Area
• Something else I did using this skill or knowledge
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
List the employers from which you gained or used the skills and special knowledge areas mentioned
above. Be sure to include the dates, job title, and employer, for example:
Accounting Clerk Bell & Rust Accountancy, Santa Barbara 1/07 – Present
Job Title Employer, City 5/06 – 12/06
Job Title Employer, City 2/05 – 4/06
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
List schools/institutions from which you obtained a degree, certificate or specialized training. Start with
most recent first and then go back in time, for example:
B.A Business Economics, Accounting Emphasis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007
A.S. Accounting, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA 2005
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Should You Consider a Functional Format for Your Resume?
Today's résumés generally fall into one of two broad categories. They are either
chronological (actually reverse chronological, listing all your experience from most to
least recent) and functional, whic h lists experience in sk ills clusters. If you're planning to
create your resume for the first time or update your old resume, you might wonder
whether a functional format is right for you.
Among job seekers, who should consider a functional résumé format:
• Those with very diverse experiences that don't add up to a clear cut career path.
• College students with minimal experience and/or experience unrelated to their
chosen career field.
• Career-changers who wish to enter a field very different from what all their
previous experience points to.
• Those with gaps in their work history, such as homemakers who took time to
raise and family and now wish to return to the workplace. For them, a
chronological format can draw undue attention to those gaps, while a résumé
enables them to portray transferable skills attained through such activities as
domestic management and volunteer work.
• People with a military background entering a different field from the work they did
in the military.
• Job-seekers whose predominate or most relevant experience has been unpaid,
such as volunteer work or college activities (coursework, class projects,
extracurricular organizations, and sports).
• Those who performed very similar activities throughout their past jobs who want
to avoid repeating those activities in a chronological job listing.
• Job-seekers looking for a position for which a chronological listing would make
them look "overqualified."
• Older workers seeking to deemphasize a lengthy job history.
Note: Come to the SBCC Career Center, Room SS-282 for assistance with résumés
and interviews.
