Same font vs. differnet font
While at first glance it might seem like a good idea to use a different font than everyone else... maybe not. Having had the pleasure of weeding through tons of resumes in another life, I found that after looking at 20 or 50 or so resumes and getting used to the same font, a different font proved to be difficult to quickly acclimate to.
It's been my experience that what was really important presentation-wise about the resume was not a different font from all the rest, but the means by which the resume was formatted and how the different packets of information about the applicant were organizationally presented.
You'd be surprised how many professionals present one or two monolithic paragraphs in a resume and expect the interviewer to be able to easily pick through and pull out vital information about the applicant. Not happening.
If I couldn't find the information that I was looking for in a resume within a reasonable amount of time, I had to by necessity move on to the next one.
Of course there are limitless opinions on this topic... mine just being one of them.
