I believe that over-inflating your resume is a big mistake. A lot of people will tell you to use off-white paper or add various gimicks to get your resume noticed, but I feel like these are just distractions. If you have a solid resume, what are you over compensating for? Putting it on special paper comes off as trying to mask what you lack in abilities. I knew a fellow in an HR department that would actually weed through the pile of resumes and litterally throw away all of the ones that were on any specail or colored paper.
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