A student shakes hands at a job fair
Making your résumé easy to scan can help recruiters get to the key ideas quickly.
  • The F-method helps recruiters identify key info by structuring résumés for how they read them. 
  • This approach can help job seekers because recruiters might spend only seconds looking at a résumé.
  • Highlighting key skills and accomplishments up top can help hiring managers and scanning software.

Sometimes, an F can be a good thing.

Take the so-called F-method. It's a way of organizing your résumé so that a recruiter can read the most important parts across the top — like the upper portion of the letter F.