A short spoken-advice excerpt from Ramit Sethi's YouTube video arguing that obsessively editing resume formatting (fonts, margins, verbs) is a form of busywork that won't solve job-search problems. Instead, he recommends spending that time crafting a compelling outreach message to someone who can forward your resume internally.
Tinkering with your resume for the 47th time. I know you keep adjusting the margins, the verbs, the formatting. Somehow feeling like the formatting of your resume is the thing holding you back. It's not. If your strategy relies on a perfect font you have already lost. Changing your font is not going to change your life. Your resume needs to be good. But tinkering is often a way that we give ourselves busy work instead of focusing on what really matters. A smarter move would be spending that time writing a compelling outreach message to someone who can actually get your resume forwarded internally.
