{"id":882,"date":"2020-03-02T20:48:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T15:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/?p=882"},"modified":"2020-06-02T20:51:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T15:21:28","slug":"appropriate-use-colour-resume-non-artistic-job-good-way-stand-good-way-irritate-recruiters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/appropriate-use-colour-resume-non-artistic-job-good-way-stand-good-way-irritate-recruiters\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it appropriate to use colour in a resume for a non-artistic job? Is it a good way to stand out or a good way to irritate recruiters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is usually no mention about using <strong>specific colours in a resume<\/strong>, but think of this, a recruiter opens a resume and it\u2019s multicoloured, there is a chance that you may stand out but in the wrong light. Its shows lack direction and are often considered unprofessional. It is obviously up to a persons taste but most people will prefer <em>plain black<\/em> <em>and white<\/em>. If you are set on using colour, choose colours from a <em>dark palette<\/em> instead of <em>light colours<\/em> as the last thing you want is the interviewer having a hard time reading your resume. If you want to <strong>highlight a point<\/strong> or a <strong>heading<\/strong>, <em>use bold or underline formatting<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In most cases where the resume is asked digitally, the print is taken in <strong>black<\/strong> and <strong>white<\/strong>, so the colour will not help you stand out and if you\u2019ve used <em>too light a colour<\/em> it will be barely visible on the paper.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is usually no mention about using specific colours in a resume, but think of this, a recruiter opens a resume and it\u2019s multicoloured, there is a chance that you may stand out but in the wrong light. Its shows lack direction and are often considered unprofessional. It is obviously [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[100,277,279,94,9,259],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queries","tag-creative-professional","tag-digital-learning","tag-digital-life","tag-impressive-resume","tag-resume","tag-resume-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvdragon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}