I am at the resume advice section of the front end career path.
The teacher says I should have a good picture in my resume in order to stand out as a person, and that I should better have a 2 column resume.
I asked this a couple of times to different AI providers, all of them told me not add a pic and decorations and to use a one-column layout, as nowadays all applications are going through ATS.
The reason was that ATS has hard time parsing jpg and may jumble the content.
What do you think? Any practical experience on this?
Personally, I probably go no pic on resumes. I guess it might be different for industries but I generally hear that no pic is preferred. It can reduce bias in selection ad can add unnecessary information on the resume to be parsed as you mentioned. In saying that though, LinkedIn is like a resume and a headshot is favourable on there so in that context (like a digital portfolio, headshot, social media type sort of project) that might make sense. In the traditional resume submission though, Iād say skip it.