Displaying your cert logos on your resume without being tacky.

How do you do it? What are your rules? I’ve attached what I have right now and I think that looks fine, but I’ve got an MCITP and CCENT to add and I think that’s just going to make it look ridiculous.

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ColbyG

I think it already looks pretty bad. I'm not a fan of logos on resumes, they just take up space without accomplishing anything.

networker050184

ColbyNA wrote: »

I think it already looks pretty bad. I'm not a fan of logos on resumes, they just take up space without accomplishing anything.

I agree. I thought about it when I first got my CCNA, but it looks kind of cheesy to me and that space can be filled with relevant information.

elover_jm

Put it in the header, make em small and neat

dave0212

elover_jm wrote: »

Put it in the header, make em small and neat

Agree

I stick mine in the footer as small as the guidelines will let me, I find its a quick visual reference for my certs. I also only put the major certs on i.e MCSE:Security and CCNA:Security

dynamik

I haven't found a way that doesn't make it look tacky (no offense

).

You could probably start ditching the CompTIA logos...

GAngel

A resume with pictures...

Don't think I've ever come across one during hiring which probably means HR filters them out first.

elover_jm

they're on mine.....and i get lots of calls for interviews.

put the major ones, away with the comptia stuff lol

Aldur

I would say leave off the logos completely. I've always thought it looked tacky and employers really don't care to see them.

tpatt100

I did back in my early days because I did not know any better, was told by a recruiter or two to resend it since it caused problems with their resume formatting software but that was years ago.

Now I think it only makes sense if you are a consultant/contractor trying to sell your services.

whutupper

My two cents, if you have MCSE+ Security, you can leave out most of the others. Anyone who sees that will acknowledge your MCP, MCSA and MCSE along the way.

leefdaddy

Looks like **** to me, sorry for being blunt. Stick with text.

/usr

I have to side with the others who believe you shouldn't put logos on a resume.

There's nothing a logo is going to do for you that text won't, except to possibly make you seem desperate to advertise your credentials in an attempt to impress the reader.

EmpoweredBizTech

I am going to go against the grain and say it helps. hiring managers can have up to 200+ resumes sometime in less then 24 hour and as someone who has gone thru that number of resume your just glancing thru at 1st a pulling any that stand out later for further review so anything you can do to stand out, be noticed, and speak to your skill level I think helps. After all a picture says a 1,000 words. It's worked for me over the years I've tested with and without the logo's and the logos have won. My suggestion if your still not sure is put on your marketer hat and test and measure your responses.

Tin_Man

I agree with the majority here. Ditch the logos

blargoe

No logo. I might be tempted if I held a CCIE or MCM/MCA, but probably not.

dynamik

blargoe wrote: »

No logo. I might be tempted if I held a CCIE or MCM/MCA, but probably not.

If I had one of those certificates, I'd just scan it, add my email address to it, and use that for my resume

ULWiz

For a resume keep it to a text version if your going to send it out. If it was for a personal website version of your resume then why not.

ColbyG

EmpoweredBizTech wrote: »

I am going to go against the grain and say it helps. hiring managers can have up to 200+ resumes sometime in less then 24 hour and as someone who has gone thru that number of resume your just glancing thru at 1st a pulling any that stand out later for further review so anything you can do to stand out, be noticed, and speak to your skill level I think helps. After all a picture says a 1,000 words. It's worked for me over the years I've tested with and without the logo's and the logos have won. My suggestion if your still not sure is put on your marketer hat and test and measure your responses.

Going by your logic you should paint a self portrait on your resume, that would REALLY make it stand out...

Honestly though, the pictures are taking up space that could be used to list experience. Also, the ones posted seem quite redundant.

Paul Boz

do any of you have anecdotal evidence that says you shouldn't put the logos in your resume? I ask because when I was interviewed at my current job the guys doing the interview literally placed their fingers on the pictures of my cert logos and said "This jumped off the page and made you really stand out above everyone else."

I have been told by several recruiters that my resume is the best styled that they have seen. My name is huge so that it stands out. My cert logos are adequately represented in color and that makes the resume stand out also. Eight years of IT experience on one page? check.

elover_jm

SWEET!!!! perfect example

leefdaddy

Paul Boz wrote: »

do any of you have anecdotal evidence that says you shouldn't put the logos in your resume? I ask because when I was interviewed at my current job the guys doing the interview literally placed their fingers on the pictures of my cert logos and said "This jumped off the page and made you really stand out above everyone else."

I have been told by several recruiters that my resume is the best styled that they have seen. My name is huge so that it stands out. My cert logos are adequately represented in color and that makes the resume stand out also. Eight years of IT experience on one page? check.

Paul, no offense I have great respect for you but... Why wouldn't you double everything else on your resume too? It looks equally as silly. You have logos for your certs and them spelled out. It's not effecient in my eyes and you could use that space more wisely. Just my opinion.

If it works that's great, but I think it's a waste of space. Especially if you have the logos AND have them written out.

elover_jm

well it certainly gets the attention at first sight without even reading and thats equally important

networker050184

I don't have any anecdotal evidence, but IMO it looks pretty cheesy and "oh look how cool I am" but not in a good way. I'd probably pass it up if I were going through the resumes. Just my opinion though.

elover_jm

I wonder.......if the IT sector should take a downward spiral or pple start finding it very hard to get a job, how many of you naysayers would start putting every logo's you can find on your resume.............. lol

Aldur

dynamik wrote: »

If I had one of those certificates, I'd just scan it, add my email address to it, and use that for my resume

ahh c'mon, how realistic is it to scan a plaque

networker050184

elover_jm wrote: »

I wonder.......if the IT sector should take a downward spiral or pple start finding it very hard to get a job, how many of you naysayers would start putting every logo's you can find on your resume.............. lol

If I thought it would help I'd put logos on my resume now. I just don't think it would help no matter how bleak job prospects were.

Paul Boz

leefdaddy wrote: »

Paul, no offense I have great respect for you but... Why wouldn't you double everything else on your resume too? It looks equally as silly. You have logos for your certs and them spelled out. It's not effecient in my eyes and you could use that space more wisely. Just my opinion.

If it works that's great, but I think it's a waste of space. Especially if you have the logos AND have them written out.

Because it takes up space and spells out what the certifications actually are. I have nothing else to fill the space and it drives the point home further. I have had at least a dozen recruiters look at my resume and no one has had a complaint about it so far. At a glance the logos do not detail what the certifications are. For some of the lesser-known Cisco certs (CCIP, for example) people usually don't know what it is. I have to explain that one constantly.

networker050184 wrote: »

I don't have any anecdotal evidence, but IMO it looks pretty cheesy and "oh look how cool I am" but not in a good way. I'd probably pass it up if I were going through the resumes. Just my opinion though.

I do have anecdotal evidence that it works. The goal of a resume isn't to look vanilla. You have to make your resume jump out of the stack and get attention.

Also, to the haters of putting logos on resumes: Please direct your attention to Scott Morris. He is why I put them on mine:

http://smorris.uber-geek.net/

ColbyG

elover_jm wrote: »

I wonder.......if the IT sector should take a downward spiral or pple start finding it very hard to get a job, how many of you naysayers would start putting every logo's you can find on your resume.............. lol

I don't see what one thing has to do with the other?

Obviously you want logos on yours, so go for it. I don't think anyone is demanding that no one does it. I believe we're saying that we, personally, do not do it and wouldn't recommend it. If it works for Boz, great. I think it's a waste of space and it looks bad, especially when things are redundant like his. The CCDA is a requirement for the DP, and the NA is a requirement for three certs he has, there is no need to list those two, IMO. I am all for redundant certs in words, as you get more keyword hits, but redundant certs in pictures seem very silly, to me.

Aldur

networker050184 wrote: »

If I thought it would help I'd put logos on my resume now. I just don't think it would help no matter how bleak job prospects were.

I have to agree. To me logos normally just looks flashy and unprofessional.

I have alot of resumes come by me and if I saw any logos on them it would give me a bad taste.

veritas_libertas

Paul Boz wrote: »

do any of you have anecdotal evidence that says you shouldn't put the logos in your resume? I ask because when I was interviewed at my current job the guys doing the interview literally placed their fingers on the pictures of my cert logos and said "This jumped off the page and made you really stand out above everyone else."

I have been told by several recruiters that my resume is the best styled that they have seen. My name is huge so that it stands out. My cert logos are adequately represented in color and that makes the resume stand out also. Eight years of IT experience on one page? check.

Very slick Paul! I like it. I have a friend in IT who just got a six-figure job in Ohio, and unless he has changed his resume recently it still has a Microsoft certification logo on it.