[MUSIC] In the previous lessons you learned about
the chronological and functional formats. As well as two special formats, the skills resume and
the CV format used for academics. In this lesson,
you'll learn about the format used for creatives, the format used for
professionals, and that used for military personnel, and
for government employees. The first format we'll look
at is the creatives resume. This is used for performing artists,
actors, dancers, singers, musicians. But with a little alteration, this is also
an excellent format for web designers or architects, even project managers. Really, for anyone who works under short
term contracts for specific purposes. In its classic form as a resume for
performing artists, the categories documented are those
that make sense for these artists. Union memberships, or
more generally professional memberships, are presented,
along with any special training. Roles on stage, on camera, and
for television are listed. Generally as a performing artist you
list your most prestigious roles or jobs within each category by date
leaving off the less impressive jobs. Any national productions you've been part
are listed, as are honors and awards. You will often include a special skills
section, for example, you might be able to juggle, do karate, you might have
proficiency in certain dance styles or even languages, anything that
a producer or director could use. While you may not be in
the performing arts business, the creatives format is not
limited to actors or musicians. Any profession where gaps in
employment are common, and don't need to be downplayed,
can benefit from this format. For example, if you're a web designer,
you can use this format to market your expertise in web and
graphic design to clients. Training would likely focus on specific
courses, for example an Illustrator, Photoshop, special skills might be
proficiency with HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. This kind of resume would likely serve
as a cover to a portfolio of your work. You'll learn more about career
portfolios in the Capstone. If you're an advertising, you could use
this format to highlight your expertise in art direction and show design or
in product campaigns. If you're an architect, the creative resume format can allow
you to present your experience, working on design teams or on specific
building proposals or projects. Any awards or certificates would fit
into this format nicely as well. Finally, one more example of when
a creative resume format could work for you, would be as a fashion designer. Maybe you were featured
in a magazine article. Or your work is connected
with a well-known brand. Or has been featured in one or more shows. You could use this format
as a consultant as well. The creatives format is a essentially
a means to market expertise when the traditional work history
chronology doesn't apply. The next format we'll look at
is one used for professionals. For instance, if you're a doctor
in the medical profession, or you are in the dental profession, or you
are an attorney in the legal profession. You may have had the same job title for
many years but in these cases, the usual chronological account
of experience is not appropriate. What matters in marketing your
expertise are the specific accomplishments you've achieved
over your time as a professional. The professional's format is
designed to show the full roundedness of your vocation. Hence, it will typically feature
summaries of your qualifications and accomplishments at the top of the page. Again, all the advice you've received
about writing strong accomplishment statements, pertain to this format. Depending on the priority you
assigned to them, your education and credentials will be presented next. You may feel they are less important
than your professional experience and your professional affiliations. In which case these would be
presented earlier in the resume. You would also want to document
any awards, any honors, or professional activities you engage in,
such as refereeing, or editing a professional journal. Any publications you've authored
would also be documented. Publications can also be included
as an appendix to your resume. The common theme to these special
formats is to use the front page to highlight what you want to reader
to see first, your most important competencies in whatever area
you're marketing yourself in. The next formula that we'll look at is one
you would use if you needed to highlight your skills as a former professional
soldier to a civilian company. You would begin with a summary
of your qualifications, most likely emphasizing
your leadership skills. This is one format where you
might want to add an objective. Remember, we've said you typically
use either a summary section or a career objective. By transitioning into the civilian world,
you will probably want to include a position specific objective in
addition to your summary section. You'll want to present your skills and abilities as they're relevant
to the position you're seeking. Similarly, you'll want to frame
your professional experience as evidence of those competencies
needed for the position you're seeking. You should be able to communicate
competencies in leading others, in communicating and influencing,
in preventing and solving problems, in achieving results, in competencies and
self confidence, and stress management. A summary of your military experience
takes the place of a work history, and what is essentially
a tailored functional resume? Remember that your military experience
will be full of acronyms, code names, ranks and references that most hiring
manager will not be familiar with, unless they also have
a military background. You will most likely need to make your
resume more civilian friendly, but of course that depends on
the position you're after. Finally, include your education and
training. Again, focus these
entries on that training that is relevant to
the position you are seeking. The last format we'll
look at are resumes for civil service and
federal positions in the US government. These provide the same type of
information as professional resumes, but they often require that the information
be put into a specific format. The US Government uses two major formats. The first format presents
your KSA statements. KSA stands for Knowledge,
Skills, and Abilities. These are the competencies
that you've acquired, but the format is not condensed
like you see in other resumes. The second format uses ECQ Statements. ECQ stands for
Executive Core Qualification. And these statements read much more
like biographies than resumes. In the readings attached to this lesson,
you'll find a list of resources you can use if you need to
prepare a federal resume. You'll also find samples of these formats. As you can see, resume formats require
knowledge about the specific items and presentation that best suits
the marketing purpose of the document. This purpose derives mainly
from the intended audience. Just has you've seen how advertisements
are tailored to specific audiences. Your resumes should be tailored to
the specific decision makers that are judging your potential fit through
a position in their organization. In the next lesson, you'll learn
about electronic, scannable and internal resumes. The latter can be especially effective if
you're seeking a promotion at your current employer. [MUSIC]