# Resume formatting advice needed

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-formatting-advice-needed/611303
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 31, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-formatting-advice-needed/611303 "2012-01-31T14:41:13Z")
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### Author: ![Dr.Righteous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Dr.Righteous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Righteous)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resume-formatting-advice-needed/611303/1 "2012-01-31T14:41:13Z")

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I’m in the process of looking for a new job and the hunt continues with little success. I rarely get a nibble when I apply, even for jobs I’m very qualified for. In order to shake things up and make sure I’ve covered all my bases I am re-doing my resume as I think that it’s not doing me justice.

I know that when I apply online and a system tells me I can upload my resume and it will auto populate the fields for me that it doesn’t capture the information properly and I always have to go in and manually input the data, so the format of it is wrong. It looks nice and is clear for a human to read it, but it’s not formatted for automated systems.

So - I need to optimize my resume for online job postings, both the format of it and making sure I use the proper key words. Can anyone point me to a good example of what I should make it look like format-wise?

Thanks in advance.