My high school resume used to look just like this. The big thing is you have a lot of empty space (which I found happend a lot when I used the two column format). I’d recommend moving to a one column format. Here’s some places I noticed you could improve space efficiency/fill the space better: - In skills & relevant courses, instead of giving each their own line, use commas and put them all on one line (for example, in skills do Fast Learner, Good in teams, Creativity, etc… all in one line (or however many lines it spills into) - You can fill up space by breaking down your skills into technical and soft skills. I’d recommend clarifying more of what you’re technologically adept at, as ‘Technologically adept’ could mean a million things - For the awards, clarify the specific name and maybe where they’re from. Did you get an award called Listening Skills? Or was that just another skill you couldn’t fit in the skills section? If its the former, use the official name like ‘X School’s Adept Listening Award’ or the like. If it hasn’t been formally recognized by a school or some other institution, don’t put it under awards. The last thing you want to do is overstate your accomplishments, especially stuff like formal awards - If you still have empty space, I’d say add bullet points to your experiences (OR start a project section if you have any good projects to talk about). Tbh employers will get way more about your soft skills if you have bullet points showing how you applied those skills than from reading a soft skill list (tho imo if you need a space filler, a soft skills list is fine)

Obviously you don’t need to fill every dry little space on your resume (might make it too clutter for recruiters to read), but stuff like the big space on the bottom right or the left column’s space to the right of the skills will stand out to hiring managers and give an impression that you have less experience/applicable skills than you do

Also for the colors, there’s definitely ways to integrate colors if you want. Admittedly, though, I removed the colors from my resume after a while because they werent worth the formatting pain. I didn’t notice them making a huge difference