All it takes for recruiters is to look
at your resume and see if you know if you are using the right kinds of
fonts. If it doesn't look professional, your resume will be on its way
to the trash bin.
Remember that your
resume is your passport. It contains your skills, your experience,
important information about yourself, and more. You would want
recruiters to read it correctly.
"The
most important thing is that your font is scannable, easy to read,"
says Amanda Augustine, career advice expert for TopResume. "Because so
many recruiters are reading resumes on-the-go, you'd also be smart to
chose a font that's easy to read on a mobile device, which means a sans
serif font like Arial, Tahoma or Calibri."
Here are some of the fonts that you can use to let recruiters take your resumes seriously.
1. Calibri
The
Calibri font is now the default font used in Microsoft Word. It is also
the default font used in several e-mail programs. This is a safe font
to be used, including in resumes. It does not painful to the eyes as
well.
2. Times New Roman
"For
legal, operations and corporate jobs, this formal serif font is still
readable electronically and goes with the brick-and-mortar feel of those
industries," says Augustine.
3. Arial
Arial
is a classic font that comes in black, narrow, and normal style. This
classic sans serif font "is a great choice for creative people or those
in a marketing field," according to Augustine.
4. Verdana
An
alternative for Arial is the Verdana font. It is easy in the eyes. It
also gives a touh of modernity. Plus, it has wider spacing, so readers
don't have a hard time figuring out the words.
5. Cambria
Cambria is a font that is already familiar to recruiters. So it is also sae to use this font when encoding your resumes.
There
are still other fonts that are dependable when it comes to encoding and
making resumes. The bottomline is to use formal and readable fonts that
are easy to read and understand, especially by recruiters.
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