---
title: "Members of Gen Z Are Putting Bitmojis on Their Résumés"
description: "Young people are sprucing up their résumés with bitmojis, logos, and other embellishments, and it's leaving a bad taste in the mouths of some recruiters."
date: "2019-08-19"
modified: "2019-08-19"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/resumes-gen-z-bitmojis"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "employment"
  - "gen z"
  - "résumés"
  - "the digest"
---

# Members of Gen Z Are Putting Bitmojis on Their Résumés

![Young people are sprucing up their résumés with bitmojis, logos, and other embellishments, and it's leaving a bad taste in the mouths of some recruiters.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/resumes-gen-z-bitmojis.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: Apple/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Résumé Revamp

Members of Gen Z are now entering the workforce, and they're bringing their [bitmojis](<https://www.bitmoji.com/>) with them.

According to a new *Wall Street Journal* [story](<https://www.wsj.com/articles/resumes-are-starting-to-look-like-instagramand-sometimes-even-tinder-11565707364?mod=rsswn>), young people are attempting to make their résumés stand out to potential employers by eschewing the traditional bullet-pointed, black-and-white format for documents with far more flair — adding color photographs, logos, and even their cartoon avatars.

## New Normal

The crafters of these creative CVs seem hopeful that their efforts will be worthwhile — and that we won't be going back to the [boring résumés of old](<https://futurism.com/site-generates-random-resumes-ai>) any time soon.

"I wanted to do something that stood out," Valentino Bogliacino Bueno, a 23-year-old whose résumé includes a headshot, told the *WSJ*. "I feel like this is what the future of résumés is going to be."

## Trash Pile

However, while bitmojis and photos may draw a recruiter's eye, the embellishments might end up doing more harm than good.

"Photos belong on your personal social-media accounts and online-dating profiles, not your résumé," Katie Burke, chief people officer for software company HubSpot, told the *WSJ*. "What you look like has zero impact on what you can do in a role, so photos, bitmojis and other gimmicks often detract from someone’s candidacy versus adding to it."

**READ MORE:** [Résumés Are Starting to Look Like Instagram—and Sometimes Even Tinder](<https://www.wsj.com/articles/resumes-are-starting-to-look-like-instagramand-sometimes-even-tinder-11565707364?mod=rsswn>) \[*The Wall Street Journal*\]

**More on résumés**: *[You’re Hired! This Site Generates Random Neural Network Résumés](<https://futurism.com/site-generates-random-resumes-ai>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)