January 3, 2011 at 9:05 am
I would lean toward's Eric's advice. Less info in print, make it impactful and interesting to the reader so they have a reason to call you.
As for the font, Helvetica/Arial/times, make it something easy to read, and clean in layout. Avoid bold, closely spaced fonts, comic sans, etc.
You want to attract attention, but make it easy to read. Think Google home page v Yahoo. One's clean, one's not.
January 3, 2011 at 11:43 am
So it looks like the most replyes revolves around two fonts : Arial vs Times. But are there recruiters or hiring managers here on our board ? What's your guys, impression ?
December 12, 2011 at 4:22 am
December 12, 2011 at 5:42 am
I never followed what majority agree upon. In my resume I have tried Bookman Old Style, Book Antiqua, Arial Narrow, Calibri & courier new (recent resume). I got jobs with all.
Trust me, if you can prove your skills resume font doesn’t matter.
December 12, 2011 at 6:04 am
Dev (12/12/2011)
Trust me, if you can prove your skills resume font doesn’t matter.
Use Wingdings next time and see how that works out for you 😉
December 12, 2011 at 7:55 am
If you apply at Siemens, make sure you use the Siemens font 🙂
Anybody else know of any companies out there with their own fonts?
Joe
December 12, 2011 at 9:08 am
crookj (12/12/2011)
If you apply at Siemens, make sure you use the Siemens font 🙂Anybody else know of any companies out there with their own fonts?
Joe
Times New Roman was commissioned by the British newspaper The Times. I'd say that when writing a resume, one should stick the standards like Times New Roman or Arial.
The way I see it, any company that would toss a resume aside simply because it doesn't conform to their own specific taste in font is not a company I'd want to work for anyhow.
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December 12, 2011 at 9:47 am
Of all the forum threads available, the one resurrected a year later is one about resume fonts .... interesting.
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December 14, 2011 at 10:05 pm
December 28, 2011 at 3:25 am
April 11, 2012 at 3:45 am
Hi,Resume Font is very important.Times New Roman font is the best font.Not only font but also font size is important.Follow same formate throught your resume.:-)
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July 31, 2014 at 10:18 pm
Verdana.. with a font of 8 would be great...:-P
August 1, 2014 at 5:40 pm
Someone revived this thread again today after another two years. But I think I might as well throw my bit in anyway, so that someone who comes here after yet another two years gets a slightly different take from what's gone before.
If you are sending your resumé electronically, it's a good idea to use a font you can be reasonably certain will be available on the recipient's computer; so pick one of Times New Roman, Arial, or Courier New.
Times is clearer/easier to read than Arial, and both Times and Arial look better to many people for most purposes than Courier New.
The only excuse for using Courier New is that you need a fixed width font because you've screwed up the have issues about layout.
Unfortunately Arial (and Arial Unicode MS) and Times New Roman tend to screw up or omit some of the Unicode characters you need for resumés which have characters not in standard English; for most people here that won't matter.
On paper, I would use either Lucida Sans Unicode or Times New Roman depending on who I was pushing it to. Responding to a job ad which was published in a sans serif font in a serif font, or vice versa, strikes me as careless, so that may apply to electronic resumés too.
As a recruiting manager, I didn't care a toss what font you put your resumé in, as long as it didn't make it hard to read. Arial 4 point was not acceptable, nor was Times New Roman 42 point, nor was Windings or Webdings or any of that ilk, nor was Mistral or other really unclear scripts, nor any fonts poducing chinese or japanese characters, or cyrillic or greek or arabic or anything else too foreign; of course other hiring managers might welcome some of those foreign scripts. But I guess if I had ever had my resumé translated into SerboCroatian I would have used a Cyrillic font if I as sending to a Serb and Times for sending it to a Croat.
Tom
August 2, 2014 at 10:38 am
In the IT arena, I believe that resume font accounts for less than it would for those seeking a position in something like marketing, public relations, or at the executive level. Honestly, most resumes in IT get screened by team members looking for references to specific skills and work experience before it gets passed on for serious consideration by HR. If debating between Arial vs Times New Roman vs. Verdana, then perhaps go with whatever font the organization uses on their own website. Changing font style could fall under the general guideline of tailoring your resume to the job, although I personally don't tailor my resume; I am who I am at this point in my career.
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