Fancy front pages

Just a favor to ask of you. I understand that putting a beautiful cover on the front page of a document is seemingly a nice gesture, however, such creativity can result in an uncessesary extra scroll and the taking of additional memory. Lastly, in at least corporate America, such might be considered a deviation from the norm, and if you have ever spoken to hiring managers, they are looking for any opportunity to exclude you from the hiring pool as possible including fancy unasked for covers that may very well end up in the circular file.