Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Let's talk about resumes 1: pleasing to the eye

What's that?
Her resume.
Smells good.


I recently reviewed many friends' resumes (maybe yours was included in that?). Reviewing these brought back a few best-practice guidelines I wanted to share with anyone looking to improve their resume. I'll discuss the first one today ... we'll discuss more later.

Resume: factual document should also be very pleasing to the eye

Think of a resume as both a factual document of your experiences/accomplishments, AND as a work of art. By 'art', I mean it must be visually pleasing ... pretty. Easy on the eyes. A balanced use of white space & text. Cleanliness in use of fonts. Brevity in word usage. Quantify accomplishments to the extent possible.

Have questions about yours? Ask me.

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