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Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

Call me old school.............but does glitz and bling and more Graphics design taking up 2/3rds of the facts and data behind a resume work?

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Good idea, but my feedback is the same. I would probably give more attention to the "before" version than the "after"...unless I was hiring a relatively low level graphics or administrative person. It seems gimmicky. Of course I am an old guy...but most of us that hire the high-level folks with high-salary potential jobs are also old guys. Maybe it is different start-ups or in CA (Google and Apple) or in smaller organizations.

This is especially true in government positions or large organizations where you have to get past rigid qualification rules or a stodgy HR dept.

I do know that my own resume is far too long and could use condensing (as experience used to be more valued than recent "wins"...and that is not necessarily the case now). Cover the last 10 years instead of the previous 30 (which just makes me look old).

Maybe a plain paper, black-and-white traditional version would be more marketable in parallel with the version shown.