Resume Font? CenturyOldStyle?

i'd play it safe and use times new roman.

its not as if the person looking at your resume will say..

"Whoa! Dammnnn kid! This kid went old-school and used CenturyOldStyle! Forget the interview and give him an offer!"

Play it safe, use times or times new roman, make sure there is a good amount of detail on ur job descriptions, evenly spaced and decent white space on the resume.

The things u should be considered with are typos and spacing.

Thanks for the input... its exactly what I was thinking, but wanted to get some reassurance.

also, I know there is a poster on WSO who provides a service that critiques resumes to make them more fit for Banking / S&T ... his username was "fosk" or something of that nature.. anybody know who I'm talking about? Have a link to his site?

Thanks.

www.mergersandinquisitions.com

If I got a resume with Times New Roman... it doesn't speak well for the candidate.

It doesn't make a damn difference.

I was reading resumes today. More important was how busy they were... bad use of white space, etc.

Even more importantly, what the resume actually said.

I used Times New Roman for mine; it's easy on the eyes and what everyone uses in the business world. As long as it's a serif font, it doesn't matter.

This is a ridiculous thread, sorry.

Let me rephrase: as long as it's not Times New Roman, I really don't care (assuming it's not wingdings or some shit). But having it as TNR is just weird.

word 2007 is much more flexible in terms of formatting. the size of the smallest movement for the indentation, objects, lines, etc. is much less clunky.

i use Garamond for mine. nice clean feel.