Some examples are Verdana, Calibri, or Tahoma.
They are readable and also not overused like Times New Roman.
Hi everyone. I’m Thea from THEAHO.CO, helping International Students
and skilled migrants get full-time jobs,
PR and live here indefinitely.
Now, one tip I want to to give you immediately is that the format of your resume is not
as important as the content of it.
So don't invest too much time in your format.
You just need a format that makes it easy to read
and directs the hiring manager to read where you want them to read.
Sounds good? In today's video,
I'll give you some tips to format your resume quickly and catch more job opportunities.
When writing a resume, you should use sans-serif fonts
that make it easier for hiring managers to skim,
because hiring managers don't read,
but they only skim your resume in six seconds.
A sans-serif font is a font that doesn't have the extended features at the end of strokes.
So in a photo here, you see
the first one is a Sans serif font.
It doesn't have the extending features that makes it easier to read.
Some examples are Verdana, Calibri, or Tahoma.
They are readable and also not overused like Times New Roman.
You also don't need to choose a fancy or rare font. An easy-to-read
one is good enough. You should focus more on your content and not the format of your resume.
The font size should be from 10-12 depending on the font. For example,
for Verdana, I can use the size 10
but I need to increase to 11 with calibri.
So be flexible here, make sure you don't stuff a lot of text with a small size
and hiring managers need to zoom in to read.
They won't do that and they just move on to the next one.
If you want to get hired with your resume,
I highly recommend you to watch this video right here,
“3 Resume Tips To Get Hired For International Students” I also add a link up here.
So you can click and watch it after this video.
Or you can also find a link in the description below this video.
Headings are the titles of different sections of your resume
such as PROFILE SUMMARY, WORK EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION.
You should use UPPERCASE and make your headings bold
to make them outstanding from the rest of your resume
and it helps hiring managers easily locate where they want to focus on.
You can increase one more size for the headings to make them outstanding enough.
For example, if the text font is 10 then the headings could be 11.
I also change the color of the headings to catch attention easier and be careful with the color
option, don't go with bright colors.
Dark blue is my choice.
Now throughout your resume, you should use bold
and italic letters to highlight different parts where you want the hiring managers to focus.
Yes, we can control where we want them to reach on your resume, Cool?
For example, I make the key skills and the first few words of my achievements bold
so that hiring managers will pay attention to them immediately
and it’s exactly where I want them to read - my skills and achievements,
not my responsibilities, because it's where I can be outstanding from other candidates.
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You can use either paragraphs or bullet points for your resume
but my personal choice is bullet points.
It separates each point into a new bullet
that helps hiring managers get different points that I want to talk about in my profile.
For each point, I have only 1-2 lines, except when I talk about my achievements,
with more context It can go up to 3 lines.
This helps to jump between different points,
very easily and creates enough whites space which is also the next point that I want to talk about.
On your resume, It’s important to create enough white space.
I've seen some job seekers trying to stuff a lot of text on their resumes
and when there's not enough space, they reduce the font size or the line break, etc.
And they end up with a resume full of text
and no white space and imagine if you were the hiring manager and you read,
from 100 to 200 resumes a day.
Do you want to read a resume like that?
Or what you do is you just move on to the next one?
I would move on. So try to create a lot of white space on your resume.
Now, with text you should use left alignment. With headings,
you can use left alignment or center alignment for your resume. My personal choice is left alignment
because people read from left to right.
So when it's easier to read hiring manager
will have a better impression of my resume,
and I don't use “justify text” it’ll create weird spaces.
So, I'll prefer keeping it natural for your eyes.
I usually use a narrow matching so that I can maximize the space
I have to get the most content out of it,
but I also make sure to never go below it.
So that I still have enough white space for my resume.
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Now, I want to tell you this immediately.
Never use header, footer, tables, boxes or pictures on your resume.
If you haven't heard about the ATS, it's the applicant tracking system
that scan through your resume
and removes you or moves you to the next round with the hiring manager.
And the secret is some ATS systems can't read header, footer, tables, boxes or pictures
Your information will be lost and you may turn out to be not qualified.
So promise me you never use them on your resume.
Until today, I still see them on some resume.
So, I need to repeat this again and again.
And before I move to the next tip,
I've got something special for you.
These are important tips to format your resume fast,
and I can make your task even faster with my killer resume template.
So, go to https://theaho.co/resumetemplate to download it.
It's also in the first comment of this video,
all formatting tips already addressed in this template.
So just download it and you're ready to apply for jobs.
This is a very simple mistake, but with a big impact - inconsistent format.
It means you use 2 different fonts, or 2 different font sizes or different formats on your resume.
It shows you're not professional or you
don't pay attention to detail. And for most jobs, “paying attention to detail” is an important requirement.
That's why, when hiring managers see this they just remove you.
Luckily, this mistake is very easy to fix.
Check through your resume the second time before sending it to make sure the format is consistent.
It's also a good idea If you ask your friend or family to give it a second pair of eyes.
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