RÉSUMÉ ENCYCLOPEDIA
MAIN POINTS:
Many, many commonly used Word formatting techniques are not suitable for résumés. Some of these will get your résumé rejected before anyone even reads it. Others will make your résumé look ridiculous when someone does read it. Many, many résumé services don’t know this, and many, many of their résumés go straight to the trash when they get to the employer.
MS Word is the only word processor that should be used for résumés. That includes [insert name of latest supposed World alternative here—currently Google Docs]. I don’t like that either, but that’s the way it is.
All Word résumés should be saved and sent in .docx format.