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8/14/2019 Resume Design Show

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Resume Design Tips

Simple design ideas formaking

your resume more eyecatching

and easy to read


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Little formatting

Notice the lack of

visual hierarchy

Nothing reallystands out


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A few formatting changes canmake a lot of difference.


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Remember that careful mixing of

serif fonts (with feet) and sansserif (without feet) can add subtle

visual interest


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Tables can also help you createinteresting design and keep things

lined up neatly.


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Sara has also slightly increased thesize of her name and made her

address left-aligned.


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She brings up the formatting menu by right

clicking the table and uses Borders and

Shading to remove the dark borders.


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She decides to add back the bottom border

to add emphasis and to visually connect her

name and contact information.


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Now lets talk about visualhierarchy: making things stand

out

Because the

sectionheadings are

so bland, they

blend into the

content.


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Sara tries adding emphasis using two

textual elements: she changes thetypeface to match her name and makes

it bold.


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Underlining seems to have the same effect

even though the text is now smaller.


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More Options


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Sara decides to use three changes to distinguish her subheadings:

sans serif font, small caps, and bold.

Clearly, these werent the only choices, just the ones Sara liked the

best after testing some of the options.


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Lets look at spacing

Because shes separated everything by inserting an

extra line space, the information appears to float in

between the Career Objective and Education

headings.


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But deleting the space makes thecareer objective section appear

crowded

Click the Page

Layout tab and

use the

Spacing

menu to

position text


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You can alsoselect thetext andright click.

Spacing isunderParagraphin theformatting

menu.

Adjusting the space in between elements

using the space menu rather than simplyadding lines allows you to cluster relateditems together and emphasize the separationbetween sections by adding more space.


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Notice how putting just six pts of space betweeneach job adds some "breathing room" to theProfessional Experience section. Shes using 12pts to separate sections.


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The Quadrant Test

Notice that whenwe look at theresume in

quadrants, theright columns lookpretty empty.


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Putting her relevant coursework into

two columns breaks up the section andmakes the courses stand out more.


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Reformatting the subheads within the section

gives them more pop.

Experiment

to see which

format looks

better.


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To make her work experience stand out, Sara uses acombination of everything weve gone over so far:

She uses columns to put the years of her employment in an easily

skimmable left column.

She separates her job titles and employers and uses formatting to

draw attention to her job titles.

She uses spacing (indents) to distinguish her job duties.


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