Re:What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates
by falcolas on Monday May 14, 2018 @03:51PM
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It's what was needed. And my use of the word fonts is a bit incorrect, it was a total of 6 different font faces (bold, italics, different sizes, different fonts). Sorry about that.
- Name - largest on the page, picked a font that looked good at that size
- Email address - monospaced font, colored to appear as a link (which seems silly, but helps pull attention to it since it's the primary contact method for me)
- Physical address - Small font, so it, my phone number, and email address occupy roughly the same visual space as my name. Also, a different font to fit the reduced size without impacting readability
Per job:
- Company name and title - Larger than the description
- Dates - Small so they can exist on the same line as the company name, but a different font to be legible.
- Descriptions and duties (also used for summary) - The baseline for font and size.
A quick glance at my resume won't show the design choices made; it's supposed to be subtle while retaining legibility through a fax machine (you wouldn't believe the lack of quality of some of the resumes which I've been handed over the years). That subtlty/readability is what took the longest.
Re:What technical recruiters want from engineering candidates
by jnwatson on Monday May 14, 2018 @07:42PM
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You were right the first time. In typesetting, A typeface is a family of fonts, and a font is a weight and set of variations (and size, too, before digital).
- Name - largest on the page, picked a font that looked good at that size
- Email address - monospaced font, colored to appear as a link (which seems silly, but helps pull attention to it since it's the primary contact method for me)
- Physical address - Small font, so it, my phone number, and email address occupy roughly the same visual space as my name. Also, a different font to fit the reduced size without impacting readability
Per job:
- Company name and title - Larger than the description
- Dates - Small so they can exist on the same line as the company name, but a different font to be legible.
- Descriptions and duties (also used for summary) - The baseline for font and size.
A quick glance at my resume won't show the design choices made; it's supposed to be subtle while retaining legibility through a fax machine (you wouldn't believe the lack of quality of some of the resumes which I've been handed over the years). That subtlty/readability is what took the longest.