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Making a New Resume

Daniel F.
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Getting ready for a new career or job feels really overwhelming when it comes to making ones' credentials.

When you are making a new resume do you use a template with colors and 'graphic design' or just stick to nice organized text?

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    As someone who's written a lot of resumes lol, I think it's important to make it look nice and clean, but you're work and experience is the most important thing. It's what will get you the job so you want to make sure you have enough room to talk about your skills and experience. Make sure it's well organized and easy to read too. I've also read quite a few resumes and honestly, one's that are really 'busy" and just swarming in unorganized text get immediately passed over. 

    It's important to remember that recruiters and hiring managers are looking at dozens, if not hundreds of resumes every day so they need to be able to read through it and get a good understanding of you and your experience in like 2 minutes. 

    That being said, if you're applying for a job as a graphic designer, you might want to have a well designed resume template lol.

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    As someone who's written a lot of resumes lol, I think it's important to make it look nice and clean, but you're work and experience is the most important thing. It's what will get you the job so you want to make sure you have enough room to talk about your skills and experience. Make sure it's well organized and easy to read too. I've also read quite a few resumes and honestly, one's that are really 'busy" and just swarming in unorganized text get immediately passed over. 

    It's important to remember that recruiters and hiring managers are looking at dozens, if not hundreds of resumes every day so they need to be able to read through it and get a good understanding of you and your experience in like 2 minutes. 

    That being said, if you're applying for a job as a graphic designer, you might want to have a well designed resume template lol.

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    That is a really good reminder ,thank you. I feel like sometimes in trying to get the details in I get a little wordy haha but remembering it needs to be able to be 2minute review helps.