Resume

Following is an example of the Professional Experience category for a FUNCTIONAL resume format. In a FUNCTIONAL format you will be organizing your skills / qualifications / accomplishments into functional groupings that support your objective. This format is an attention-getter because it shows what you have done - not so much where and when, though that must be included later in the resume - in the Employment History category.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Management and Administration

• Staff liaison for association's foundation: rejuvenated foundation activities by a thorough reorganization of records and correspondence; motivating the Board of Trustees and reduced awards program expenses by 20%.
• Coordinator of awards program: revitalized awards program; created foundation's first awards brochure, giving recognition to previous recipients.
• Instituted an endowment and fundraising campaign.
• Originated a statistical study of conventions for an international association and participated in the decision process outlining future plans with association executives.

Meeting Management

• Planned, developed, implemented city-wide conference with 1,000 attendees; 150 concurrent sessions; 100 presenters.
• Negotiated contracts with hotels, convention centers, convention bureaus, airlines, travel agents, and other service and product suppliers.
• Assigned space and arranged function specifications for all conference activities. Managed on-site convention headquarter's office and trained host volunteers.

Promotion and Publications

• Participated in the design of conference program, registration brochure, presentation proposals and promotions with marketing coordinator.
• Implemented marketing strategies resulting in a 25% increase in attendance and a 25% decrease in promotion costs.
• Solicited major corporations for advertising space in conference program.

Following this impressive professional experience category would be your Employment History category. More about that later.