TIPS & MYTHS
SUMMARY:
1. Your “visually distinctive” résumé may never even be seen by a human being at the employer’s end, because it didn’t get through the automated résumé processing stage. To use the current buzzword, it isn’t ATS-compatible. (This applies to “creative” résumés in general, because what most people mean by “creative” is just unusual visual effects—which are usually unusual for a reason.)
2. If a human being does see it, it may have been so scrambled by the processing technology that they won’t bother to read it
3. The visual options for résumés are severely limited by the technology used to transmit them, print them, or display them.