How to Design Your Résumé: 15 Formatting and Layout Tips
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Designing Your Resume
our skills, achievements and qualifications are what really matter on your résumé, but how you present that information is just as important.
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Keep It Simple
Colour
As a general rule of thumb, choose a high-contrast color scheme — and stick to it. A safe color scheme is black (for general text), white (for the background) and a third color like red, green or blue (for headings).
Layout
This keeps text away from the edge of the page, which aids in the overall readability of your résumé. Increase or decrease the margin based on the content
Font
choose professional font - Calibri, Helvetica, Avenir, Georgia or Garamond.
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Content Hierarchy
- Create an eye-catching header
- Divide content into clear sections
- Set headings for each section
- Use bullet points
- Use digits for numbers
- organize with columns and tables
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Essential Sections
Your résumé must always include these five essential sections:
Header
Summary or objective
Employment history
Education
Skills
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Mind The
Try to keep your résumé to a maximum of two pages. If you’re just out of college and don’t have much work experience, meanwhile, one page will usually be more than enough.
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