Some good points here. I’ve heard exactly the opposite advice from folks who hire for UX in the Metro DC area: I was told they wanted to just see job titles, companies, and dates, and perhaps a short list of skills and tools.,

The larger issue is that, for most organizations other than design studios — in my experience, anyway — applicants have to design a resume that will successfully make it through the ATS parser. That means single column and packed with keywords. I believe that the hiring manager won’t even see your application and resume if it doesn’t make it through the ATS parser, with criteria set by HR. As far as I know, ATS systems don’t care how many “pages” a resume is. They are parsing them for keywords, job titles, and dates.

If you have many years of experience, working at several places, you would be hard-pressed to describe achievements at each one and still stick to one page.

If there was some way to submit a resume for the parsers and then a “designed” resume for the hiring manager, that would be ideal.

The reality is, the entire hiring process is a crap shoot. What one company’s HR and hiring managers thinks is ideal, another one’s doesn’t want. And there is no good way for a candidate to know which is which.

I think we can all agree: progress bars and charts are out!