Resume Formats

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Resume Format

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Rely on white space to define sections. Scanners like white space. They use it to determine when one section has ended and the next has begun. Horizontal lines can also be used to define sections since they are usually ignored by more sophisticated scanning software, provided they do not touch any of the letters on the page. However, avoid the use of short, vertical lines since scanners try to interpret these as letters.

Don't use columns (like a newspaper) on your resume. Scanners read from left to right and often have difficulty determining how to relate text to headings when the columns are the same width or when there are more than two columns. Although the keywords will be intact, your resume may end up looking like garbage in the ASCII text version created during the OCR process. Using a narrow column of headings on the left followed by the text on the right doesn't seem to cause the same problem, however.

Dot leaders (like this . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .) can cause major headaches for the scanner, so avoid them.