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I'll add my personal LaTeX template to the pile. I think it looks pretty snappy and I've gotten compliments on it before. https://github.com/jakebasile/classy-latex
I have had tremendous success with very unorthodox layouts, features and subtle use of colors on my resume via Adobe InDesign. https://www.alecgorge.com/Alec%20Gorge%20Resume.pdf I used to completely redo my layout every year while I was in school and had success with it. Especially at the collegiate level when many resumes are the same in practice, something new for the recruiter to look at goes a long way. On quite…
I personally like your resume as it included what it needs to be no more, no less. But I have less experience ( only two places I have worked ). If I follow your resume style, my resume probably completed within half of A4. What is your suggestion on this?
Yeah, that's a question I get a fair amount.
Many people have an instinct to leave things off of their resume because they aren't "professional" or "tech" enough. Do not sell yourself short! If you feel like you don't have enough for your resume, include anything that covers the soft-skills portion. A good first rule of thumb is to look at anything that occupies a lot of your time or did so in the past. There are a lot of skills that apply to any job or social arrangement: time management, initiative, planning, leadership, etc. It is optimal of course to demonstrate those through internships and full-time jobs in your chosen field but there are other ways too. Mowing lawns, working with a club/charity, working at coffee shops, washing windows and volunteering at the library can all demonstrate different important qualities that will translate to a new role. Don't leave them out if you are looking for more things.
The layout needs to be fit to your personal story—not the other way around. If you feel like you still have less content than you would like, use a touch more whitespace or use less terse wording (but not fluff). If you have one major thing you are incredibly proud of, make sure the design reflects that—don't let it sit and have it match all the boring things in visual appearance. I usually go through a bunch of different sketches before I find something I like. It is definitely not "one-size fits all".
There's lots of ways to vary the appearance of something: bolding, italicizing, different font, border, whitespace, color and the position on the page. There's no magic combination but you generally don't want to use more than two or three of the techniques at the same time. If you use too many things will look out of place.
I'll add my personal LaTeX template to the pile. I think it looks pretty snappy and I've gotten compliments on it before. https://github.com/jakebasile/classy-latex
I have had tremendous success with very unorthodox layouts, features and subtle use of colors on my resume via Adobe InDesign. https://www.alecgorge.com/Alec%20Gorge%20Resume.pdf I used to completely redo my layout every year while I was in school and had success with it. Especially at the collegiate level when many resumes are the same in practice, something new for the recruiter to look at goes a long way. On quite…
If you have a key skill that is in demand then you can have a very old CV, not updated for years, in some old text only format on some database somewhere, and still get the work with no problems.
This I manage to do, with a CV that lists projects done with dates, but with no alphabet soup of skills, no mention of what I might do in my spare time and no fancy colours. Oh, and no Github either and certainly not on LinkedIn.
Ultimately CVs end up in some database that is text only to all intents and purposes. The goal is to get the interview and if you are dealing with recruiters then they look for different things and probably only ever send a mangled text only version of your CV to the client.
So there is reverse psychology in not being apparently available. Sometimes employers want the employee that is already spoken for and too busy working to have such a thing as an up to date CV.
I have had tremendous success with very unorthodox layouts, features and subtle use of colors on my resume via Adobe InDesign. https://www.alecgorge.com/Alec%20Gorge%20Resume.pdf I used to completely redo my layout every year while I was in school and had success with it. Especially at the collegiate level when many resumes are the same in practice, something new for the recruiter to look at goes a long way. On quite…
Did that layout work before you were in Apple?
It started as something I used as a freshman in college to grab their attention and plead my case before the recruiter realized my age (I also took my graduation date off resumes given in person). I had mixed results but, hey, I was a freshman and getting some conversations was better than none.
Many people have asked about mine and given it compliments, so here it is. It is a responsive website with some printing styles and a link to the pdf (which is just a "print to file" of itself). Consider code/style as MIT/CC0: https://francisco.io/resume/
My one page is similar[1].
Not as nice but editable in the browser[2].
[1] http://docs.xstatic.site/markdown_03605910-12e8-4aef-a145-43...
[2] http://docs.xstatic.site/ or http://public.docs.xstatic.site/
Many people have asked about mine and given it compliments, so here it is. It is a responsive website with some printing styles and a link to the pdf (which is just a "print to file" of itself). Consider code/style as MIT/CC0: https://francisco.io/resume/