Cert logos on resume good or bad

Hey All:

Hope your day is going well. We all know that with most certifications you achieve, you get a logo. From more experienced pros, do you feel that adding cert logos for achieved and active certifications on your resume looks tacky/cheesy or does it have any added benefits to make it stand out? If it does look good and not like a brochure, how many logos would you say would be enough. I was thinking 2-3 maybe 4 at the most. Thanks all!! Have a good weekend!

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DatabaseHead

Cheesy beyond belief.

shochan

kMastaFlash wrote: »

Hey All:

Hope your day is going well. We all know that with most certifications you achieve, you get a logo. From more experienced pros, do you feel that adding cert logos for achieved and active certifications on your resume looks tacky/cheesy or does it have any added benefits to make it stand out? If it does look good and not like a brochure, how many logos would you say would be enough. I was thinking 2-3 maybe 4 at the most. Thanks all!! Have a good weekend!

Masta...you could fill up 1 or 2 pages with logos with the certs you have!

Go for it!

iBrokeIT

You aren't going to impress anybody worthwhile with a pretty logo on a traditionally text only document.

EANx

There is a place for cert logos. A resume is not that place, it looks unorofessional.

[Deleted User]

Agreed. I was just curious as I was looking on google and found a few people's resumes with their certification logos. Thanks y'all!!

scaredoftests

Just the certificates, not the logo.

JoJoCal19

Resume be looking like a NASCAR lol.

N7Valiant

Bad. Just list your most impressive certificates first. If they're valued at all, HR would already be searching for them, and I feel that unnecessary images might screw up the ATS software.

[Deleted User]

yeah that is true. It would look like a giant ad/brochure.

TechGuru80

In all honesty, you should be striving to the point where your experience trumps any certifications you might have. Also, HR just uses keyword searches to find certifications so adding logos is a no value added thing to do.

TechGromit

EANx wrote: »

There is a place for cert logos. A resume is not that place, it looks unorofessional.

So says the guy who misspells professional.

H-bomb

JoJoCal19 wrote: »

Resume be looking like a NASCAR lol.

that made me laugh! Lol

E Double U

I think it would look cool to have all of your cert sponsor logos at the bottom of your CV.

"This alphabet soup brought to you to by Cisco, CompTIA, EC-Council, GIAC, Microsoft, and more."

EANx

TechGromit wrote: »

So says the guy who misspells professional.

Holy cow, a spelling error on an internet forum. So glad I was the first person to ever do that.

shochan

Too bad they don't have iron on patches for my blue jean jacket...lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ChQK8j6so8