Frankly, hiring managers and recruiters have little time to decipher the resume. Standard formats improve the speed of cognitive processing. Even if you're the

Frankly, hiring managers and recruiters have little time to decipher the resume. Standard formats improve the speed of cognitive processing. Even if you're the candidate of their dreams, they'll curse you for making them spend more time understanding that. And "remembering the candidate" is not necessarily a good thing: I still remember the resume from 1999 whose objective read: "Want to become the expert in Peoplesoft in 5 years", but not for flattering reasons, of course.