<story><title>My dad&apos;s resume and skills from 1980</title><url>https://github.com/runvnc/dadsresume</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j33zusjuice</author><text>In my experience looking at résumés (mostly for entry-level tech roles), fancy formatting is 100% an attempt to cover for a lack of skill. I haven’t seen one that had good content. Intuitively, this makes sense to me, and seems to fit with the old adage, “if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.” Imo, your experience should speak for itself.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&amp;gt; No need for 5-star skills ratings, dual-colored backgrounds, unreadable fonts, and whatnot...&lt;p&gt;I read a lot of resumes. Honestly, the number of quirky over-designed resumes I see is probably 1 in 50.&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of people do submit clearly organized resumes based on a template they found.&lt;p&gt;The reason those quirky over-designed resumes get shared on HN or other social media is because they’re different, not because they’re common.</text></item><item><author>rmnclmnt</author><text>Can we bring back this form of resume, please? Information is clearly organized, easy to read, easy to remember.&lt;p&gt;No need for 5-star skills ratings, dual-colored backgrounds, unreadable fonts, and whatnot...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>conductr</author><text>&amp;gt; your experience should speak for itself.&lt;p&gt;When it does, you have trouble fitting it all on 1-2 page. You quickly go to text only, and organize things accordingly.  When you lack experience, you try to make things look like an infographic so as to fill space with trivial information.</text></comment>
<story><title>My dad&apos;s resume and skills from 1980</title><url>https://github.com/runvnc/dadsresume</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>j33zusjuice</author><text>In my experience looking at résumés (mostly for entry-level tech roles), fancy formatting is 100% an attempt to cover for a lack of skill. I haven’t seen one that had good content. Intuitively, this makes sense to me, and seems to fit with the old adage, “if you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.” Imo, your experience should speak for itself.</text></item><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&amp;gt; No need for 5-star skills ratings, dual-colored backgrounds, unreadable fonts, and whatnot...&lt;p&gt;I read a lot of resumes. Honestly, the number of quirky over-designed resumes I see is probably 1 in 50.&lt;p&gt;The vast majority of people do submit clearly organized resumes based on a template they found.&lt;p&gt;The reason those quirky over-designed resumes get shared on HN or other social media is because they’re different, not because they’re common.</text></item><item><author>rmnclmnt</author><text>Can we bring back this form of resume, please? Information is clearly organized, easy to read, easy to remember.&lt;p&gt;No need for 5-star skills ratings, dual-colored backgrounds, unreadable fonts, and whatnot...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ultimatt</author><text>Then there are the people who dazzle you with both their brilliance and the shiny stuff. They get the job over just the brilliant person...</text></comment>