Advantages of Reverse Chronological Order of a Resume

Advantage of writing chronological resume can be best explained with the example.
Russel started his career as software trainee for 1 year. Then he worked in same company for 2 years. During this 2 years period, he worked on many projects with different roles and duties. After 2 years, he switched on his career to another company as executive engineer. There he worked as team leader and, managed many projects. Now he wants to switch to another company.

So what type of resume Russel must write, functional, reverse chronological or combination of both. Surely, Russel must write resume in reverse chronological order.

Format for reverse chronological order resume:

1. Name and contact information:It is the place where recruiter will contact you if he is interested. So mention your name and contact information like permanent/temporary address, contact no, email-id, etc.
2. Work experience:One must mention work experience in reverse order. It must include name of company, duration for which you had worked in that company, your job title, work profile and responsibilities handled. Now, in reverse chronological order resume this field is very important, because it shows versatility in you.
3. Educational details:It must include all the details starting from graduation till secondary school certification, with relevant grades, name of school/college ,etc.
4. Accomplishments:All the accomplishments must be written in reverse order. Experienced person will have lots of achievements achieved in past professional work experience. Achievements must be highlighted because it shows capabilities within you.
5. Skills:Remember, your skills are your weapons. So don’t forget to highlight your skills.

Thus, reverse chronological format is used when one has acquired good past experience. It is not suitable for the fresher to use chronological order format.

Advantages of writing resume in reverse chronological order are as follows:

• It lists all your achievements very effectively. Employer comes to know versatility within you. It reflects the various fields in which you have worked, it speaks up your past experience.
• It gives brief information about your past career, that is when and where, you had worked and how you had worked and with what responsibilities you had worked. 
• It shows your job progress. 
• It shows how your working manner is whether traditional or customized. 
• It reflects your attitude towards work which you had handled. 
• Also, these sorts of resumes are easy to read. One can locate relevant information easily regarding the career growth in such type of resume. 
• It shows your consistency in work so far acquired and accumulated.

The problems faced with such example of resume are that it shows up the educational gap, gap in work experience, etc, if any. It shows up the employer the switching rate of your job that how frequently you are changing the companies, which creates bad impression.

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