There's difference between fancy formatting and applying good design. Good design will make your resume more readable and draw focus to the key points the reade

There's difference between fancy formatting and applying good design. Good design will make your resume more readable and draw focus to the key points the reader would be initially scanning for. 30 seconds is about the time you have to grab someone's attention. If they don't see something that ticks a few boxes in that time, they'll move on to the next resume. I've had to sort through a lot of resumes over the years and when you have a stack to go through and project deadlines approaching - you need to go through them fairly fast. Basically, I'm not going to try and read a long description of achievements and skills gained. Not even dot points. I'm looking for where you've worked and for how long to gauge overall experience, how long you stayed in roles and the kinds of companies worked at. Knowing someone worked at a particular company gives a lot of info about their potential exposure to tools and technologies. So, if your resume can get that across in those first 30 seconds, it will get read in full later once you're down to a handful of potential candidates. Those info-graphic style resumes are appalling and not what you want to try and parse unless the person's job role will be creating info-graphics.