Underlining in resume? Do you all think this could work?
Hi all, I'm coming up on recruiting season and I've been thinking a lot about how interviewers only spend 30s on each resume -- and even then mostly look at the bottom where your interests are anyway.
So I was thinking, why not use underlining sparingly throughout the resume to draw the attention of the interviewer to the right parts and skip the noise (used lorem ipsum as noise here lol, fitting)? Might as well have them look at the most important stuff if they're just going to skim and let their eyes wander, right?
Here's a mock-up I made, too avant-garde and won't pass screening or does it kinda work?
Also feel free to tell me that I think of and worry about the dumbest stuff because yeah, I do XD.
Dont underline anything
Play with bold and caps.
the italics should do
Your resume + the way you dress are the 2 ways that you want to NOT stand out in the banking process.
Get the schools + GPA + work experience that look like the schools + GPA + work experience that typical bankers have. If you don’t have the same school, make up for it with a high GPA + test scores + better internships (in other words, 3.5GPA Princeton kids can do PWM and get a banking job but a 3.5 non-target with PWM internships will be hard pressed to land a banking job).
Fit in completely. Email the same way that bankers email (short and to the point). Dress like a banker in interviews, but err on the side of being conservative (read guides on here for more info).
Stand out by being interesting in your stories + personable in interviews (but not too casual).
If you stray from these instructions in any way, you’ll have a hard time landing offers. Believe me, I’ve been going through this refining process for the past 7-8 months. There are certain things you’ll only learn through networking and refining your approach after each interview.
So in other words, no. Don’t underline anything because it’ll make your resume stand out in a bad way.
For more depth, I’ve learned that bankers are extremely picky. You can easily get in a ton of processes if you just don’t stand out; network normally, check boxes with your resume, etc. and you’ll get interviews.
Stand out badly and it’s easy to just write you off. It’s about not losing in interviews/resume screens more than it is about doing everything perfectly so you “win”.
Thank you so much, it was a 2 am idea and apparently a very bad one. Good lucky with your own process!
Is this nyu stern?
No lol everything in that is fake, no word of it reflects my resume or what school I go to. Complete mockup for this post.
I generally play with bold, but I have no issue with the underlining in the way you’ve reflected it. If I received a resume like this I wouldn’t think much of it (nothing negative) and if there was a lot of content on it then the underlying might help.
I definitely don’t think it will make you stand out in a bad way. The prospects on here have a way of acting as though bankers are looking for any possible little tiny reason to reject you, that’s not really the case. Should you send me a resume in Comic Sans? Please don’t. But if the formatting of your resume is clean and easy to read and the content is strong, I could care less if there is underlining on the key points.
Formatting is quite important.
Of course if you have an impressive resume it will not matter that much. If you are okish, small mistakes will make the difference of who gets the difference.
Attention to detail is a very important thing for interns and showing no errors in networking emails / cv / cover letters (which only a few banks read) helps to stand out from a bunch of very similar cvs
There is a pretty distinct difference between attention to detail (spelling mistakes, grammar issues, etc) and a conscious decision to choose a formatting technique such as underlining which the OP mentioned. Anyways, fitting to your username that you'd use this as a reason to knock someone.
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