Resume Paper

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Paper for a Resume

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Print your resume on a high-quality, light-colored paper (white, off-white, or very light gray). Never use papers with a background (pictures, marble shades, or speckles). The scanner tries to interpret the patterns and dots as letters. This is a good rule to follow even for paper resume s that will never be scanned.

Often companies will photocopy your resume to hand to a hiring manager, and dark colors or patterns will simply turn into dark masses that make your resume difficult to read. If a company has multiple locations, the original resume may even get faxed from one site to another and the same thing happens.

Avoid using photocopies of your resume . Original laser printed masters are best, although a high-quality inkjet printer is acceptable. Do not use a dot matrix printer since the letters sometimes touch each other or are not solid.

Print on only one side of the page and use standard-size, 8 1/2 X 11 paper. The scanner cannot turn your page over, so the reverse side might be missed when the clerk puts your resume into the automatic document feeder. That same process is the reason why you should not use 11 x 17 size paper. The pages would have to be cut into 8 1/2 x 11 sheets and the printing on the reverse side would not get scanned.