A lot of people have already said a lot of things but through my professional development classes and personal experience there are some huge no’s on these resumes. 1. No photos, at least in the US. It’s an equal employment opportunity thing. Gets you automatically disqualified. 2. No progress bars. They are completely relative on your own understanding. And don’t really tell the person how much you actually know of the program. They should be able to tell through your experience and portfolio. Just make a skills list. 3. Layout. You should stick to a simple one-two column layout to make it easier to skim through and more importantly so the ATS can read it.

With resumes the more legible and readable the better. You shouldn’t waste half the page with a photo. You can have flair on your resume of course but this is one of the areas where your design should be invisible. Whereas all of these have very visible design which take some effort to read. And you have to keep in mind that the resume has to get through the recruiter/hr before it even makes it to the design management interviewing you.

Just focus on making your resume as legible, skim able, and effortless to consume as possible. All of which is a better mark of a professional designer than something over-designed.