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Maybe pretty resumes are useful if you are applying for executive positions. My experience as an applicant for tech jobs is that style and beauty of resume are
by manishsharan 12y ago
Maybe pretty resumes are useful if you are applying for executive positions. My experience as an applicant for tech jobs is that style and beauty of resume are lost upon HR software programs that match candidates' resume to opportunities. Maybe its only here in Canada, but most major employers here use an ugly web software where they force candidates to stuff their resumes into small textareas and check off on industry buzzwords.
- JeanMertz 12y agoThis. At my old job we had a repository of résumés which management used to promote the company and the people working there. The repository was full of nice-looking and sometimes funny (in a good way) résumés. One of them even had a nice xkcd comic (http://xkcd.com/378/ http://xkcd.com/378/). Then the company started to attract bigger customers, and these customers had their own HR departments. The next month, all résumés had to be resubmitted, no formatting, no images, table-based two-column layout. It took the fun out of an already boring document. The company I currently work for never asked my résumé, they saw a talk I gave at a conference, they knew my public contributions, and asked me to join them for one day. That was enough to convince them, as it should be.