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#lang pollen
(define-meta title "résumés")
hanging-topic[(topic-from-metas metas)]{Avoid density with a second page}
During law school, I interviewed for a job at a small firm. One of the hiring partners first comments was Its so unusual that I see a résumé without any typos.
Are you serious? I said.
Yes, she said, probably 90% of the résumés I get have typos. And that includes the ones we get from the top schools.
I got the job. There were surely better-qualified candidates. But they damaged their chances with sloppy résumés.
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 arent based on substance. Whether you think thats fair is irrelevant. It happens all the time.
9 years ago
The biggest problem I see with résumés is that theyre 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.
before-and-after-pdfs["resume"]