Dress your resume to impress: ultimate resume designing tips

As a job-seeking millennial, the thought of designing a resume may have you pulling your hair out. The common advice that you get while preparing for an interview is ‘dress to impress.’ The way you dress for the job says a lot about your personality, but so does your resume. Since it’s also a deciding factor of your career ahead, you need to dress your resume to impress.

Fancy words and a two-page CV may scream ‘professional,’ but it’s nothing without a good design. The two main elements that hold it all together is the font type and color. Of course, the structure of your resume matters equally, which you can read more about here.

The proper font and color sets the tone of your personal brand. At the end of the day, your resume should be able to sell you as a reliable brand to the people looking at it. Colors create a long-lasting psychological impact and the best color scheme depends on the kind of profession you are applying for to leave the right impression (kyunki ‘recruiter’s kya kahenge’ matters).

Fortunately, designing resumes for a few years has helped us compile a few suggestions to wow the HR, and your future boss.

 

Color Schemes:

Every industry has its own persona, and the color scheme that you use should be able to bring it to life.

 

Font Types:

A simple curve here or a sharper tail-end to a letter can make the entire reading experience. Imagine trying to read a resume with Arial font for a title, and Comic Sans font for the entire body. *shudder*

The aim of using the right font is to make the text easy to read. A combination of two fonts will be able to highlight the right points and ensure that you have offers pouring in. However, if you’re comfortable using just one font for the entire resume works well too (who doesn’t like consistency?).

 

Here are some of our favorite title fonts to use:

 

Here are some of our favorite body fonts to use:

 

Universal fact: You can use title fonts for the body of the resume and vice versa.

To be absolutely honest, recruiters take a maximum of six seconds to decide if your resume is worth their time or not i.e. whether you are worth the time. Therefore, it is pivotal that the color and the font used are professional, subtle and readable enough to capture the attention of the recruiter in that precious time.

However, if you believe that you need external help, we’re here for you. You can check out some of our resume samples here to know more.