Resume Mistakes: Submitting a Fancy Formatted Resume to the ATS #shorts
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Click here if the video does not play properly
Submitting a beautifully formatted resume with special fonts and atypical formatting is like committing self-sabotage to being considered.
How Do You Address a Layoff In Your Resume?
If you’re going to submit your resume to an applicant tracking system, the systems really only want to see things that are flat, dull, boring, nothing in the way of fancy fonts or unusual formats. They just want to be able to parse information into the correct fields. And if you give it a resume that has multiple columns, a thin column, a thick column, anything along those lines, a font that it has trouble digesting, it’s going to choke on your resume. It’ll never get into the system, it’ll get rejected, and with that, so will you.
Now, it’s not that those résumés that you really love because they look so beautiful don’t have a purpose. They have a purpose in an in-person interview. They have a purpose when you’re meeting someone and you want to give them a resume. But for purposes of applying for a job, flat, dull, boring, almost like it was typed—a typed resume—that’s what really works.
I’m Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter. I’ve got a lot more to help you at jobarch.com community. Go to the site. I’ve got free and inexpensive stuff on the homepage. And if you become an insider, you get access to all my content and a lot more is going to be coming soon.
Using AI to Create Your LinkedIn Headline
ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
People hire Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter to provide No BS job search coaching and career advice globally because he makes job search
and succeeding in your career easier.
How to Get More Interviews: Look for the Third Way
You will find great info and job search coaching to help with your job search at JobSearch.Community
Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter
Schedule a discovery call to speak with me about one-on-one or group coaching during your job search at www.TheBigGameHunter.us.
For a Video Interview on a Laptop
He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with over 2900 episodes over 13+ years.
We grant permission for this post and others to be used on your website as long as a backlink is included to www.TheBigGameHunter.us and notice is provided that it is provided by Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter as an author or creator. Not acknowledging his work or providing a backlink to www.TheBigGameHunter.us makes you subject to a $1000 penalty which you proactively agree to pay. Please contact us to negotiate the use of our content as training data.
