Although he was an accomplished senior technical writer, the resume Thomas Hall had written for himself was four
dense pages of text that broke virtually every resume writing best practice.
Not exact matches
Just to cite a specific example, a 30 -
page plan with readable fonts and a lot
of useful bar charts and tables might be much more readable than a 15 -
page plan
of dense text only.
If you've ever stopped by a web
page that consists
of nothing more than a long, unbroken piece
of dense text, you know how important readability is in attracting and keeping people on a website.
She opened the file to a sheet
of paper covered in
dense typewritten
text: The file contained four equally dizzying
pages after the first.
Visuals are less intimidating than
pages of dense text and even help increase information retention.
A concise, well - organized resume
of one to two
pages, focusing on a clear chronological job history presented in easy - to - skim bullet points will grab more attention than a lengthier document with
dense paragraphs
of text, or one where it's hard to figure out what the candidate did where and when.
The original resume was hard to read with
dense text, 2-1/2
pages in length, poor use
of white space, and too many bullets.
«For example, if readers eventually made it to
page 4, they'd be slammed with a
dense block
of text — 15 bullets in a row — that would cause most readers to skip out after the third bullet point,» he says.
Applying the same logic, the reader is more likely to interact with a
page that looks open and inviting, rather than
dense with lines
of text.