Excluding resumes based on fonts?

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- AXIONET -dot- COM>]

geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA wrote:

> I don't think I'd want to work for anyone who discriminated
> on this basis. Not to slam the original poster, but isn't
> font choice in a resume completely irrelevant to hiring a
> techwhirler? Assuming that the body font is legible and the
> job advertisement doesn't ask for proof of my taste in
> fonts, I'd hope the quality of my resume's content (and how
> well it matched the person's needs) would be the sole
> criterion for hiring or dismissing me.

I agree that, in most cases, it would be a little harsh to reject an
applicant solely on an unimaginative choice of fonts.

However, a resume is a chance to display your abillity.

In many cases, layout and typography are part of a modern writer's job.
Therefore, it would not be discrimination to consider mediocre layout or
typography as a mark against a technical writer, any more than it would
be if the resume had spelling mistakes.

The more important design was to the job the true that would be.

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