Kevin has owned his own travel agency for 10 years, COVID took its toll on the business but he managed to get through the 18 month pandemic without losing money. Sadly, there was no profit.
Even though he loves travel and enjoys working with his clients, he closed the business exhausted from working a minimum of 14 hours a day and not really making any real financial headway.
Fortunately his wife has a good job which has supported his family with a modest but happy lifestyle.
He has his destination in mind and we did a lot of work rebooting
his master resume.
His current functional resume has not garnered any interviews.
As described in a recent helpful article by Robert Half, a functional resume “leads with a list of skills and specific experience, followed by education and work history sections”
https://lnkd.in/e6FCYeC
As the article suggests, advocates of a functional resume say that it's a wise format for people with gaps in their work history or operating their own business like Kevin.
Kevin and I worked through our Resume Analyzer and we talked about his self evaluation compared to my evaluation. By the end of the conversation, he realized that he has an enormous number of successes in establishing his own business that fit with his new destination.
He also realized that he has less than 40 seconds to show the pattern of successes he has had in his career that tie to qualifications in the job description. His functional resume was not doing this.
We shifted his resume into a powerful chronological format which, as the article suggests, “is generally preferred by most hiring managers.”
Kevin recently landed a new job supervising a small team in an experiential travel business,.
#resume #careertransition, #careeradvice
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