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#lang pollen
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◊(define-meta title "résumés")
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◊hanging-topic[(topic-from-metas metas)]{Avoid density with a second page}
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During law school, I interviewed for a job at a small firm. One of the hiring partner’s first comments was “It’s so unusual that I see a résumé without any typos.”
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“Are you serious?” I said.
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“Yes,” she said, “probably 90% of the résumés I get have typos. And that includes the ones we get from the top schools.”
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I got the job. There were surely better-qualified candidates. But they damaged their chances with sloppy résumés.
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This is a book on typography, not typos. But the point is the same — faced with a stack of nearly identical résumés and limited time, readers will make judgments that aren’t based on substance. Whether you think that’s fair is irrelevant. It happens all the time.
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The biggest problem I see with résumés is that they’re uncomfortably dense with text. I take this to be the influence of the myth that a résumé can only be one page long. Unless a potential employer demands one page, feel free to make your résumé two pages. This will ease your typographic problems.
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◊before-and-after-pdfs["resume"]
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