While the video format is slightly higher in price, it might be worth it if you're not a fan
of huge blocks of text.
If you have
huge blocks of text without any consideration for spacing, bolding, bullets or some other form of highlighting that helps the reader scan.
Your summary is a
potentially huge block of text — up to 2000 total characters — which is almost always read when people are skimming LinkedIn profiles.
If you
use huge blocks of text and a flowery font, a recruiter or hiring manager will likely deem it «too hard to read» and move on to the next resume.
If you have
huge blocks of text without any consideration for spacing, bolding, bullets or some other form of highlighting that helps the reader scan, it can be a problem.
Apologies in advance for
the huge blocks of text.
I finally got around to watching the E3 streams (day 1, 2, and 3) of Mega Man Legacy Collection, and wouldn't you know it I felt compelled to write down
a huge block of text just based on watching those 3 hours of footage starring game producer Rey Jimenez, Digital Elipse game preservationist Frank Cifaldi, and Capcom press representatives Brett Elston and Greg Moore.
If they're presented with
a huge block of text, they may not bother to read it all (or even skim it if they're really pressed for time).
If they see
a huge block of text on a page, they may not even read the first sentence before tossing it aside.
I have looked at thousands of resumes for federal jobs and I have just lost my patience with the functional format, long bullet lists and big,
huge blocks of text.
Chunked Text: In print our eyes can take in
huge blocks of text without a problem.
If you have
huge blocks of text, anywhere outside of your executive summary, that likely means you haven't trimmed or curated well enough.
Dense Text: In print our eyes can take in
huge blocks of text without a problem.