Resumes...
I hate them.....the worst thing about them is how driven they are by fashion. 10 years ago I was working on my first resume, the order of the day was changing font sizes and styles, pretty textured papers... you remember pale blue and marbledy, grey with little flecks... everyone spending hours agonizing over the choice.....the font choices were as bad...everything set in columns too...

A few years later... things were more moderate... font choices, were down a bit (well you still had all those choices but you were only using one or two) papers were still pretty but fewer choices....

now.. if it doesn't look swell in plain text all one font size completely scannable on startched white paper with no texture and no funny formatting you are doomed. The info is still the same... but you have to redo the whole shebang for what? fashion. Now as opposed to small lists of skills at the bottom set in nice redable columns, they go at the top comma delimited, impossible to really understand just worthless acronyms and jargon. Designed to get snagged by keyword searches. UGH. Got to get all the right ones in there..don't leave it out no matter how stupid it sounds, the more hits the better.

I hope for a more moderate solution soon. Better smarter OCR should allow more people friendly resumes in the future. Or heck maybe we can do away with the paper ones all together.