I like the second one personally. You don't need to put references available upon request on your resume, it's just assumed.

Thanks!

2 in my opinion is the better of the two

2

Thanks, I thought that maybe reducing the text for some lines is a good idea, so that there is certain space between the bullet points on the left (the text) and the dates, so that there is no text under the dates.

i like the second one much better

WHY? WHY? WHY? This is really surprising for me: neat and tidy 1) and messy 2)

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2, more common, more familiar

2nd one is much, much better. first one looks like it has much more white space, and it looks sort of artsy? not really sure how to describe it, but it looks like you tried way too hard on the aesthetics, lol

edit: also, seeing as that you've already worked at GS/MS, i don't think there's a need to make some extremely bold and different looking resume... work experience should speak for itself in this case. i'd expand that GS/MS part too - it's clearly the most important aspect of the resume.

so 2) is the M&I template, thanks to M&I =) Thanks, will stick to 2) and consider some further changes.

2 by a mile

all right, thanks! How can I modify 2) to make it better?

1 is forcing you to write shorter bullets because you dedicated 1/3 the width of the document to just dates. This is a terrible waste of space if you actually have good content to put on the resume.