How long is your resume?

[oboeguy]

Two pages. I have a few versions of it depending on the job being targeted.

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
resumes should not be more than a page long

 

[blackdogdeek]

2 pages
10 years of work experience

 

[Stunt]

1 or 2 full pages.

a) empty paper looks less skilled
b) too long is full of repetitive or useless info - remember resume is a teaser for the interview

If you are 1.5pgs; get creative with spacing.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Five summers of relevant internships, six years of graduate research (two years also included teaching), two and a half years of "post-academic" work, dozens of papers (but only a five or six listed in the resume)

2 pages... in 8.5pt font


It seemed like most of the people who interviewed me didn't even bother to read the resume. Mostly they had read my papers, talked to me at conferences, just came to my talk the day of the interview, or maybe they just figured I wouldn't have been invited to interview if my resume wasn't relevant.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

6yrs experience after college.

1-page!


Unless you have 10+yrs of quality work experience after college please try and keep it to one page!

 

[clickynext]

Two pages. I spent hours and hours trying to fit it onto one page and still keep it nice and clean, but in reality it's impossible unless you're taking a career prep class in high school, and even then it's challenging for many.

 

[j00fek]

school made me one when i left, 1pg no more

 

[EagleKeeper]

30 years experience

3 pages

1 summary/cover page

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Stunt
1 or 2 full pages.

a) empty paper looks less skilled
b) too long is full of repetitive or useless info - remember resume is a teaser for the interview

If you are 1.5pgs; get creative with spacing.

I agree. Partial pages just look like ass. Thats really my only rule. I'm not an expert or anything but I can't comfortably fit all I need onto a single page unless I made the font insanely small.

 

[Jawo]

I kept mine to one page when I was looking for a job out of college. The company I joined wanted my resume in a set format (for in house use)...now its 3 pages.

From what I heard from Career Services and Recruiters, the 2nd page of resume's is rarely looked at.

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Two pages, only because of 14 years experience.
format = a blend of executive and technical

Then you only cover the last 3 years or the most relevant experience. Any "gaps" can be covered in the interview or cover letter. Its not a god damn CV its a resume.

 

[yllus]

Starting from when I entered university, I've always used two full pages. One page is for high schoolers.

 

[akubi]

1

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: homercles337

Originally posted by: spidey07
Two pages, only because of 14 years experience.
format = a blend of executive and technical

Then you only cover the last 3 years or the most relevant experience. Any "gaps" can be covered in the interview or cover letter. Its not a god damn CV its a resume.

Which begs the question, what's the difference between a resume and a CV.

I thought they were one and the same.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
It should be one page unless you have publications, patents, and meaningful work experience after a degree.

THANK YOU for pointing that out to the people who are still in college getting the one page rule hammered into them.

Originally posted by: PowerMacG5
Honestly, even then, it should be more than 1 page. I haven't even graduated yet (am in my 3rd year), but I have enough work experience to warrant a 2 page resume. If you make use of your summers when in school, you should have built up enough experience to break in to the second page.

Exactly how many summer jobs can you have by your third year? You do realize that once you start working meaningful jobs, you don't HAVE to put the crap high school jobs on, right? Most employers don't want two pages from someone who has just completed college, short of you being an honors student with all sorts of credibilities and credentials.

 

[cavingjan]

And even then, we really don't want to look through it. This whole thing depends upon the job discipline and the individual reading the resume. Nothing is worse on a resume than having more white than black on the page unless its a block of white at the bottom of the last page.

The most important thing with a resume: have multiple people review your resume and conver letter for typos, spelling, and grammar. Two such mistakes puts it right into the recycle bin for us. That weeds out a full third of our resumes.



My resume as 2.75 pages with 11 years of engineering experience after school. Education is now down to 3 lines. But it hasn't been updated in 3 years.

 

[lokiju]

I have 10 years related experience but cut off the last few years in an effort to focus more on meaningful and recent experience.

I'm at exactly 2 pages and have had my resume worked on by a professional.

Gets hard to keep it looking nice and fit within 2 pages though as the years go by.

 

[FeuerFrei]

10 inches
It fits on a page.

 

[Orsorum]

1 page. If they want more, I can give them a page and a half, maybe, but for applications and general use it's limited to 1 page.

 

[FoBoT]

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[AbAbber2k]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
10 inches
It fits on a page.

:roll:

 

[ArchCenturion]

I got mine down to a page. I dont have referances on it, if they want references, I can give it to them separately.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: homercles337

Originally posted by: spidey07
Two pages, only because of 14 years experience.
format = a blend of executive and technical

Then you only cover the last 3 years or the most relevant experience. Any "gaps" can be covered in the interview or cover letter. Its not a god damn CV its a resume.

???

a resume should show a steady progression in ones career. Moving upward with more responsibility and more experience and more decision making abilities/direct reports. You do this by listing your jobs, what you did and displaying how you moved forward/promoted.

 

[MBrown]

Originally posted by: Corporate Thug
resumes should not be more than a page long