The format of your resume is of key importance. The design is of greater significance in terms of styling, use of fonts and colours. Choosing the right resume style that suits your career level is important if you want to be able to convey your experience and expertise easily and effectively to a prospective employer.

Textual, Interactive, and mash-up resume formats are the three widely recognised styles that you can pick from. — of them were designed to flatter a certain form of professional.

• Textual resumes are ideally suited to entry-to-mid level candidates, begin with a basic career goal and are the most common format style.
• Interactive resumes are for candidates of mid-to-senior rank. These resumes can substitute a career goal with a ‘skills overview’ at the top of the curriculum vitae, which focuses on skills gained over a medium-to-long career in a specific industry.
• mash-up resumes are just as they are named, and integration of a more usable, skill-based resume type and a linear resume.

At the end of the day, formats are reasonably stable as long as they conform with one of the above general specification forms. If you’re unsure, then play it safe and go with the usual sequential form. This guide describes the common resume formats in more detail: How to select a Resume Format

As far as architecture is concerned, most applicants overthink this much too far. It is the content of the description that can attract the reader’s attention, not the font or colour of the text.