How long do you think resumes should be?
katzeyez
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Hi there. This is a common debate between myself and upper management....how long should a resume be? Do you feel it's best to keep it to one page or is two pages ok? I honestly like 2 page resumes better if the applicant has several jobs listed as references. I would rather have it on two pages than crammed on 1 page.
What do you think?
What do you think?
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My daughter's (high school)teacher told her that more than one page was too much because no one really reads past the first page. (evidently managers have the attention span of two year olds)
My son had one college professor tell him that two pages is appropriate if your job history warrants it and a cover letter is a must, and one that told him to keep it to one page and forget the cover letter.
I agree about the font size. the only thing more annoying than a font too small to condense a resume to one page is an entry-level resumes done in a larger font to stretch it onto two pages. I felt like I was in the "large print" section of the library.
Seems the trendy terms is CV as opposed to Resume'. I still like 'resume.'
Some that are to long for some of our managers and bosses that want a "one pager or a two pager", I telephone interview, those that I then bring to the party for telephone or face to face interviews with another person in the company, I will assist them in cutting their resumes to fit the management's needs. I have even taken the opportunity in a hurry to produce a memo which high-lites the key parts of the long resume and provided it to the manager who is in need of preparation prior to the contact.
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