another HR question...

golden1215

this time for H.  He is applying to a public works position and it wants grounds maintenance experience.  He's worked at 3 different golf courses doing jobs very similar to what this new job is looking for.  Question is, whats the best way to relist duties that are virtually the same under 3 different employers?  Like literally it's going to be the same 6 or so duties and tasks for each golf course so his resume just looks silly and repetitive.... there's only so many ways you can re-word "mowed grass"....

do we do a functional oriented resume instead of chronological one?

Birdie1483

Has he had experience outside of those three golf courses? If so, perhaps you could do it chronolocially, but list those three courses together. Like


Latest Job (date)
-functions

Previous job (date)
-functions

Golf course 1 (date)
Golf course 2 (date)
golf course 3 (date)
-functions

golden1215

His golf course jobs are intermixed with other relevant jobs.... I just don't want the function/skills/job duties section of 3 jobs to be so repetitive

Beachy730

Maybe do it the opposite then. 

Job Title
duties
Golf course 1 with dates
Golf course 2 with dates
Golf course 3 with dates

Birdie1483

Yeah I understand. If he was just a groundsworker at the golf course and has had "higher responsibility" jobs since then, then I could see it being ok to list his other jobs and then the three golf courses together at the end like I showed above. That way you're only listing the function/skills part once but you're still showing that he's done it for three separate jobs for X amount of time.

golden1215

sounds good- thanks ladies

noelle24

I put a "relevant skills" section underneath my education, which I changed depending on the jobs I was applying to.  It basically re-worded and summarized the most important skills of all my jobs, which were listed afterwards with a little more detail. He could try something like that.