Carefully look at both the images below. They are screenshots of a section Software skills an experienced IT programmer’s resume.
Image-1: Resume before alignment
Image-2: Resume after alignment
Did you notice any difference between the images, not in text but in alignment?
Which one looks better formatted? Obviously, Image-2 looks better.
Now tell me honestly didn’t you come across this kind of formatting problem while editing your resume in Microsoft Word? I’m sure you might have come across this problem and like everyone does you might have ignored it.
You no longer have to ignore this problem. I have a perfect solution to format your resume and make it look like Image-2. Here it goes. The mistake we commonly do while editing such sections is we use normal spaces to align the colons(:) in a single line. And we leave the default left alignment in that section of the resume.
What you should do instead, is to first change the alignment of the section from “Left” to “Justified”. And instead of using line spaces, use tab for spacing and try adjusting the colons(:) to fall in a straight vertical line. Bingo, you will have a perfectly formatted resume.
Try this yourself to get the aha feeling.
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