Resume Response: Rodney Ragin
The overall information you presented in your resume was great. You did emphasis all of your marketable qualities such as your multiple computer skills. My main suggestions and concerns are with the formatting of you resume.
Your name should stand out from the resume. Currently, you name at the top and the highlighted section headlines are the same font size and both in bold. Make your name a size bigger and each of the section headings a size or two smaller so they your name is the focus of the page. Make them remember who you are. I do not think that your email address needs to be underlined, just an un-necessary distraction under your name. The lines that are located on the outside of your addresses are good to have. I feel they should cover the length of the resume. Currently, your section headers stick out further to the left than the lines. I feel this looks a bit award. Having it all justified to the left may look a bit more professional and organized.
The ‘Work Experience” section looks good, and the reverse chronological order works well since your most recent experience is the most valuable. You included the company name in bold and your personal title in italics. The bulleted lists work well here. The formatting with the location and date of work of the right hand side visually works.
My last suggestion is to make your honors and activates a bulleted list instead of two columns. Since your resume currently fits nicely on to a single page, and this is a desirable feature, then you can change the font sizes of the text to be smaller. You may also find a bit more room if you make each section headline a smaller font size (as suggested above). I believe even if the section headlines are the same size font as the information that follows them, they will stand out enough if they are kept in a bold font.
A questionable issue for me is having two addresses. I personally would put only one address as a way to contact myself. This way the company would not have to pick. A person with hiring power in your field that you have contacted may have more insight into a preference of one or two addresses.
Your name should stand out from the resume. Currently, you name at the top and the highlighted section headlines are the same font size and both in bold. Make your name a size bigger and each of the section headings a size or two smaller so they your name is the focus of the page. Make them remember who you are. I do not think that your email address needs to be underlined, just an un-necessary distraction under your name. The lines that are located on the outside of your addresses are good to have. I feel they should cover the length of the resume. Currently, your section headers stick out further to the left than the lines. I feel this looks a bit award. Having it all justified to the left may look a bit more professional and organized.
The ‘Work Experience” section looks good, and the reverse chronological order works well since your most recent experience is the most valuable. You included the company name in bold and your personal title in italics. The bulleted lists work well here. The formatting with the location and date of work of the right hand side visually works.
My last suggestion is to make your honors and activates a bulleted list instead of two columns. Since your resume currently fits nicely on to a single page, and this is a desirable feature, then you can change the font sizes of the text to be smaller. You may also find a bit more room if you make each section headline a smaller font size (as suggested above). I believe even if the section headlines are the same size font as the information that follows them, they will stand out enough if they are kept in a bold font.
A questionable issue for me is having two addresses. I personally would put only one address as a way to contact myself. This way the company would not have to pick. A person with hiring power in your field that you have contacted may have more insight into a preference of one or two addresses.
posted by Anonymous at 6/22/2005 02:13:00 AM
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