Is a Combination Resume Good?
It depends on what you want your resume to focus on and why. This combination resume format works well if you:
- Want to accentuate your skills while listing your experience.
- Have career gaps that you’d rather not highlight.
- Are switching occupations, so your prior work history may not be 100% applicable.
A combination resume (also called chrono-functional or hybrid) is an amalgam of the classic reverse-chronological resume and a functional resume (also called skills-based format). Instead of just displaying your previous jobs and education in chronological order or listing your skills and describing them, this format showcases your qualifications and supports them with relevant professional accomplishments.
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