Designers, let's talk resume font size. How small is too small?

[wave rider]

I am perpetually saddened that the spelling of résumé has changed.

I chalk it up to reading “The Mac Is Not A Typewriter” by Robin Williams. No double space after a period either…

[JoeM]

Resume creation has really become a cr@p shoot in recent years. When I was hiring designers before I retired I would review actual resumes. Two pages max was acceptable providing the applicant’s work history and accomplishments required it but one page was usually appropriate. I felt anything less that 10 pts really wasn’t readily legible for a manually reviewed resume but for resumes I myself submitted to a “big machine” corporate environment that would be parsed to a DB I always submitted a simple Word file at 12 pts, Times Roman. That was really the only way you could ensure that your uploaded resume file would parse and properly propagate the required fields. PDF files were really hit and more times, miss.

[M A V I C]

wave rider wrote:
I am perpetually saddened that the spelling of résumé has changed.

I chalk it up to reading “The Mac Is Not A Typewriter” by Robin Williams. No double space after a period either…

Well, double space after period was due to monospaced type. With variable width type, it's not needed.

[Ombligo]

I looked at their portfolio - that told me 90% of what I needed to know. A glance at the resume just to see if we had any common connections (maybe worked someplace that I already knew people at and could contact). The cover letter was just to see if they could write a basic sentence (frequently the answer was no). Call a couple of references to see the person was psychotic. Then talk to the person. Often I could have the process done in the course of a day.

No decision was based on the resume - I needed to see their work. After that everything else was an attempt to disqualify the person.

[bazookaman]

M A V I C wrote:
[quote=wave rider]
I am perpetually saddened that the spelling of résumé has changed.

I chalk it up to reading “The Mac Is Not A Typewriter” by Robin Williams. No double space after a period either…

Well, double space after period was due to monospaced type. With variable width type, it's not needed.
That drives me crazy. Double spaces after "normal" text is WAY too big. But people insist on doing it anyway.

[space-time]

maybe they worked at Apple where they got trained to use small fonts, light gray on white or dark gray on black, that are essentially impossible to read for anyone without a 20/10 vision