Got an application from a developer that looked terrible. Was ready to dismiss it, when I happened to notice there were patterns to the garbage, and it was really too terrible for anyone. Asked her to send me the original and I found the culprit:

It was two columns.

That was all it took to throw off the resume parser at Indeed of all places. So what you're doing will be hopelessly destroyed by any resume parser out there. That is likely the reason for the performance.

> one-page

very good

> largely graphical

dear god no.

I've been a designer for 12 years and have no trouble getting hired, and my resume is basically 100% letters. The people who let infographic gimmicks distract them from traditional indicators of competence are not people you want to work for, generally.