Improve Your Executive Resume Format to Increase Executive Job Search Success

When it comes time to write a resume, most people are 110% focused on the content. It’s fine to be focused on the content; you need to be — you need strong, persuasive writing that tells an employer your qualifications and why they need to hire you.

But if you focus so much on just the content that the format of your executive resume is messy, boring, or just plain unimpressive, you might not even be giving your content a chance to impress recruiters or hiring managers.

The format of your resume is your first impression with an employer or recruiter. As they glance through a pile of resumes, they will be more likely to spend time with and pay attention to the resumes that are formatted to be easily readable, visually appealing, or interesting. The hiring process can be tedious, and if you make it a little more interesting they will notice. Make your first impression a great one, and put some work into improving the format of your resume. A simple text resume might be the easiest to create in Microsoft Word, but putting the work into building a modern resume format is more likely to get your work history and accomplishments some attention than defaulting to a tired, plain resume format is.