Short advice video by Trenton Luera explaining an eye‑tracking study and human left-side reading bias: when people (HR reviewers and college coaches) scan resumes or messages they focus on the left margin, so applicants should place their most important attributes (e.g., bio, key stats, contact info) on the left side and early in communications.
Chapters
This is a very little known hack that works for resumes but applies to recruiting as well. So there was a study done with the eye tracking software of people that look over resumes. So people from hr and what they found is that they hardly looked from the right side of the page, they only looked at the left, very close to the margin. They hardly look at the middle or the right side at all. Now there's a lot of different reasons for this. We're biased because of how we read from left to right as well as a lot of the more important information on a resume is often to the left. But the key point here is if someone's scanning for information, they're really only staying on that left side. So this doesn't only apply to HR people looking at resumes, this applies to you. You probably know that you probably bias to the left side more if you really think about it. And it also applies to college coaches as well. This is just basic human psychology. So what that means is you need to put your best stuff, your most important things to the left side. So for example, your X bio, you don't want to have that 4, 3, 40 on the right side, you want to have it on the left side. Ideally, it's the first thing that you mentioned that means the same for your xdms, your emails, whatever it is that coaches are to going.