White Space
Is there a general opinion among reviewers on resume white space? Is it better to go for the clean, generous margins look at the expense of detailed extracirricular descriptions (even just one line, and only for ones where the applicant has a leadership position), or to fit in detailed descriptions of both work experience and extracirricular leadership by pushing the margins out to say 0.15?
I guess it boils down to an asthetic (not making the reviewers eyes bleed from so much text) vs. detail (giving a description of relevant extracirriculars so as to accentuate experience and desire in those all-important 30 seconds) argument
I had my margins at 0.5'' and was told by several people to try to increase them. Ended up settling at 0.6'' because I didn't want to cut down any of the descriptions any more than necessary.
your best bet is to show us both copies. Check out the resume critique forum for information on how to prepare a genericized resume and post both copies.
white space is definitely important. you want to keep your resume as crisp and readable as possible. after a certain point, reading resumes gets very painful on the eyes and the person reading your resume will thank you for it.
i use 0.12" margins on top and bottom and 0.6" on left and right. think it works pretty well.
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