These Formatting Rules Will Get Your Resume Through The Screening System
Vivian Giang from Business Insider has some great tips to ensure that your resume gets through to a live human being:
- Do not place your contact information in the header of your resume, because filtering softwares can be set to ignore headers and footers so there is a risk this information will be deleted.
- Choose a conservative font such as Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, or Calibri. Gillis says that serif fonts, such as Times Roman or Cambria may be rejected by screening software.
- Do not use any script fonts.
- The smallest font size to use for the body of your resume should be 11 point. “Any smaller and you’re probably asking for trouble.”
- No graphics or logos.
- Do not format using tables.
- No borders.
- A one-inch margin top and bottom is best.
- Do not use any lines that cross the entire page from margin to margin, because “some filters have been created that will reject a document for nothing more than having a single line run continuously across the page,” he writes.

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very fucking useful for those looking for white-collar jobs :)
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I doubt I’ll ever be successful enough to make a resume but I still find this strangely interesting.
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Some tips for people looking for a job.
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No wonder so many idiots get hired: They’ve spent all their time ramping up on this sort of “how to deal with the lowest...
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