Timeline for Line lengths on paper for a resume layout
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| Jun 22, 2020 at 5:10 | history | edited | lmlmlm |
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| Feb 7, 2020 at 22:16 | vote | accept | ChrisW | ||
| Feb 4, 2020 at 15:27 | comment | added | Luciano | My suggestion to you is: make the content of your CV shorter, so it fits in less pages with an easier to read layout. Usually recruiters want to know about your recent experiences and the most relevant ones, the rest can be discussed in person. | |
| Feb 4, 2020 at 15:15 | answer | added | ChrisW | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 3, 2020 at 23:10 | comment | added | ChrisW | The hyperlinks (URLs) are the only color -- they're blue and underlined in the standard way in the online web version of the document, black and without an underline when printed. Not perfect black, but very nearly black. | |
| Feb 3, 2020 at 23:07 | comment | added | ChrisW | @alephzero My experience was that a longer resume worked better (netted more interviews). It must please two people -- first not be rejected by the recruiter or HR (who might try to reject asap and therefore want it as short as possible) -- after that it needs to appeal somehow to the technical hiring manager (who wants to be interested enough, maybe check all the boxes, to set up an interview). This one is made to have three different kinds of information, and in clearly-separate sections or pages, so you can read a summary and skim the details, or read it all. Only one font and one color. | |
| Feb 3, 2020 at 22:57 | comment | added | alephzero | "Packing a lot of text" is fairly irrelevant. From real life experience on the receiving end of processing job applications, the first scan of your resume by a human will last about 30 seconds - if something relevant and stands out. If not, it will be in the trash bin in half that time. And course the fancier you make your multi-column format with multiple fonts, colours, etc, the harder it will be for a computer-based system scanning for key words to make any sense of it, before it even gets near a human. Design it for somebody who has to look at 200 of these on a Friday afternoon! | |
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| Feb 3, 2020 at 20:44 | answer | added | Rafael | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 3, 2020 at 17:19 | comment | added | ChrisW |
@curious Yes you could @ me there if you like.
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| Feb 3, 2020 at 14:39 | comment | added | curious♦ | @ChrisW We may be able to help you out in chat if you want to join The Looking Glass | |
| Feb 3, 2020 at 13:52 | history | edited | lmlmlm |
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| Feb 3, 2020 at 13:51 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | Yeah, it's hard to make questions like this answerable in a non-subjective way, however you have explained your dilemma very well. I'm just not sure if there is a solution that would be considered non-subjective (i.e. not just opinion based). I can opine about leaving space for the sake of readability, but if you need to cram it in, then you need to cram it in, and you just have to work with what you've got. There's nothing wrong with that. I like Lucian's suggestion to use a condensed font for the body text. | |
| Feb 3, 2020 at 13:49 | answer | added | lmlmlm | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 3, 2020 at 13:01 | comment | added | ChrisW |
This is a very subjective question, and I suspect there is no right/wrong answer. I tried to meet the 'critique' guidelines. Most of what I've ever read is about designing for screens, or maybe newspapers or posters, not for text-on-A4 paper. Do you really have to limit it to two pages? Is three not acceptable? Well I'm told that one is preferable. I allow myself two on the basis that the second is a different kind of information, i.e. a "functional resume" instead of (i.e. as well as) the standard chronological one.
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| Feb 3, 2020 at 12:54 | comment | added | Billy Kerr | This is a very subjective question, and I suspect there is no right/wrong answer. But for what it's worth, I think all the layout examples are too crammed with text. The page margins should be wider. Also white space generally helps readability - don't dismiss it as "wasted space". Do you really have to limit it to two pages? Is three not acceptable? | |
| Feb 3, 2020 at 12:41 | history | asked | ChrisW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |