I'm somewhat curious if many indications of competence can be considered indications of wealth / social status? Does this disqualify them from consideration?

I'm somewhat curious if many indications of competence can be considered indications of wealth / social status? Does this disqualify them from consideration? Resume quality IS actually pretty easy to pick up on. Some folks go totally overboard for non-design roles - I'd say there probably is a tasteful middle ground (ie, not super long with pages and pages - I've had folks do essentially powerpoints) and not just a mono font list in all caps (often some kind of auto resume spam mess). If you take the time to do a 1 or 2 page MAX clean resume, quasi responsive to posting, with a brief email note you are ahead of 60% of candidates already. With this hiring market it doesn't matter - employers will chase you anyways.