There is a high learning curve associated with it, but this is your resume. When the person is looking at it, they may have no other information on you as of ye

There is a high learning curve associated with it, but this is your resume. When the person is looking at it, they may have no other information on you as of yet, meaning this right here, is your first impression. If I can spend twice the effort on this, and get an "improvement" of 10 or 20% (I'll leave the choice of units of measurement up to the reader...), in my mind that's worth it. It also doesn't have to be all that difficult. My resume is a style supplied by someone else (it's a pretty standard cv format) with some minor tweaks. Look at the source I linked, and I think you'll agree that it doesn't look all that complicated and probably could be modified with your information, and tweaked here and there to get a fairly unique resume.