When you go online, you will find a ton of different resumes and many resume making sites that have beautiful looking resumes with many columns and graphics.
Those are fine if you are applying for a design position (where the resume design itself is a part of the application) but are trash for everything else.
Look, if I as a hiring manager or a recruiter got only 1-2 resumes per day, seeing designer resumes would be fine. I would deep dive into them.
In reality a recruiter can often have to go through over a hundred resumes in a day (sometimes many hundreds), and non-standard resumes which have information hard to find just get tossed out (depends on the recruiter’s mood).
Your resume template has to be such that it is easy for the recruiter/HR to read, not “beautiful” to look at.
This is why resume template sites and Canva templates are not a good idea. They are not in the business of selling your resume to the recruiters, they are in the business of selling a beautiful resume to YOU.
This type of flashy resume is BAD for most serious fields (tech, finance, auditing, banking, etc.).
What you want is a clean single column resume that is easy for a hiring manager to scan. They can go through it top down and get all the information they want in less than a minute.
You have to remember that hiring managers do not want the frustrating experience of looking in different places to find the information they want. Sometimes if the information is too hard to find or hard to read (like people who bold single words in sentences)… it just gets tossed out unless there’s a strong reference who sent it.
You got to understand the sheer quantities of resumes that each of them see. If it was one resume, beauty would be appreciated. But when you have a ton to deal with, it just becomes annoying.
Resume sites sell one resume to YOU. They don’t care about the guy you are trying to sell to. That’s why they are a waste of $$$.
Single column top down formats are consistent and easy to read for hiring managers. That’s what you want.
In the No BS Resume Guide, I give you a template that you can simply modify and use. It’s included with the guide, so you don’t need to pay extra for it.
Click below to download your copy:
