The New York Times - Innovation Portfolio. New Service Gives Any Job Seeker A Slick, Custom Resume. On average, employers spend less than 30 seconds scanning each resume, which is just enough time to determine if you went to the right college and joined the right eating club.
Not that you can totally blame them. Perusing entire stacks of single-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman crammed improbably between the margins is enough to make a guy go cross-eyed. Can a better designed CV help job seekers differentiate themselves? Dodd Caldwell and Emory Cash think so, and to that end, the Greenville, South Carolina, designers have developed Loft Resumes, a new web service that sells customized resumes based on a dazzling panoply of templates for $99 and up. Xero Reinvents Accounting For Small Businesses, With Superb UI Design. Accounting has a user interface problem.
Actually, it has two. The obvious one is the one that comedians have done to death: it’s boring work. We’ll come back to that. But there’s a bigger issue. "Accounting used to be this thing that you did retroactively," says Philip Fierlinger, co-founder and lead designer at Xero.