Comments on: Give your résumé a face lift

By: Chanpory

Chanpory — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:49:51 +0000

Ritesh,

Again, this post is about the design, not the content of the résumé. The idea is that you should adapt the template for your needs.

The example template is for a law student, in which case education is most important.

I find the "objective" section a waste of space. No matter how you wordsmith it, isn't the objective always to simply get a job?

With over a 100 comments on this post, I think it's time to close-off comments. I'm not sure much more can be said that hasn't already been said.

Thanks everyone!

By: Ritesh

Ritesh — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:03:13 +0000

this is incompete…with current market resume should have an OBJECTIVE.SKILLS should be above experience and EDUCATION should go to end

By: Art

Art — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:23:43 +0000

David Perry = Clown trying to pimp his book along with self-invented BS buzzwords.

Great tips. This is about the visual design and how to make a crappy Word doc look better. I've forwarded this to family and friends and they thanked me.

By: Damien Jorgensen

Damien Jorgensen — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:14:35 +0000

Excellent post, I wish the candiates which send me CVs would read this!

By: who cares

who cares — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:11:04 +0000

sorry but wheels is intellectually challenged. bullets should always be hanging. if you want to do what’s right go and read typography books by ellen lupton, rob carter, jan tschichold, or wolfgang weingart. people are not going to skip over your resume because you did what is typographically correct.

By: m

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:11:58 +0000

You suggest Georgia does not print that well. I have access to a huge repository of high-grade fonts and I wonder if someone might be able to recommend a high quality font which is sleek on-screen and printed. Thanks y'all.

Great stuff here btw, thanks for the help with my job search!

By: James

James — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 15:39:22 +0000

I am just starting another job search so when updating my resume I put it in this format and it worked very well. I changed the header a little just to make it smaller, but that was about it. My girlfriend saw it and thought it was so great she asked if I could help convert her resume. Her resume used to be 10pt font/Arial Narrow/.25" margins completely filled with text so we were not sure if it would fit. Surprisingly it fits much better and provides much more white space on the page.

Overall this article is excellent.

It would be great if there was a cover letter template with the same formatting, but that may be asking for too much.

By: duffGeiger

duffGeiger — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:48:35 +0000

I saw this article on Digg when it first came out and decided to use it to update my resume. Since then I’ve shown my new and improved resume to my wife, a couple co-workers, and a former boss. All of them have said that they don’t like the layout. I did get a little too wordy in my descriptions so perhaps that’s what they dislike but has anyone else received feedback from peers?

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:34:18 +0000

I was just about to send my resume, but I'll use the new template first. I think it's good.

Hey, Perry, better asking for forgiveness than for permission, ha? ;) I think you DID insult us by thinking we are unable to see how "terrible" this resume is and need your help to open our eyes. That we would just take the template and maybe not even change the name :D

By: John

John — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:34:55 +0000

The en dash can also be made by ctrl + the minus key on the number pad. FYI – easier to remember than the 0150