ATS parsing, technically: most systems extract text in reading order, so multi-column layouts interleave your content into nonsense before scoring even starts. Tables, text boxes, and headers/footers are the other classic casualties.

Boring single-column layouts aren't a style choice — they're a serialization format.

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