As such, your new employer will want to see that you can create a professional looking document that is formatted properly and free of typographic errors.
People often make mistakes such as all-caps or using many different fonts, thinking it will draw attention, but in reality flaunting the rules of typographic design just makes things harder to read.
In fact, it is designed specifically for text, and comes right out of typographic language.
The curious discussion before the papal court respecting the beatification of Odoric forms a kind of blue-book issued ex typographic rev. camerae apostolicae (Rome, 1755).
This has driven writers to use tricks such as the one I have just used - inserting asterisks or other typographic devices.