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Counterpoint: be careful about going too far into the "cool" spectrum. When I've been hiring, the best-looking resumes were often the least qualified. If you're
by _ah 9y ago
Counterpoint: be careful about going too far into the "cool" spectrum. When I've been hiring, the best-looking resumes were often the least qualified. If you're a visual artist, then sure, go nuts! But if you're a technical person then stick to the basics. Forcing someone to decode your pie chart to understand your skills is not a way to win points with a hiring manager. Go for bullet points, short sentences, correct grammar, and no spelling mistakes.
- wickawic 9y agoFor better or worse I index the opposite way. My CV is a markdown doc wrapped in the absolute minimum html/js to render it as a web page. If viewed as text it is perfectly readable sans a single line of css gobldeygook, if viewed as a web page it’s also perfectly readable.
- nilkn 9y agoAs a hiring manager I've often noticed the same. There's a weak positive correlation between candidate quality and the resume being one page in LaTeX. There's a weak negative correlation between candidate quality and the resume being very graphically fancy. That said, I try to completely forget these correlations when reviewing resumes because it's just not fair to anyone for me to go into the process with preconceptions like those.