@Em0nM4stodon Unless a place is utterly insane and wants all your employment history, then two pages should be enough to put a profile, recent relevant history and references. IMHO though, of course.
To be fair, I do use narrow margins to make mine work nicely.
@Em0nM4stodon I have a multipage resume, the resume break all kind of rules. It isn't ordered chronologically, it's ordered by most relevant experience to least relevant. As I've worked as a keyboard for hire consultant, in addition to running my own company, there are quite a number of entries that are more or less relevant to the job.
At the top are awards and achievements that I, or my team and I, have achieved.
And as I've previously said, I've SE optimised it for lazy recruiters.
FWIW: my CV has 3 pages; I used the third page mostly for volunteer experience. As a hiring manager, I tend to expect longer CVs for folks with more experience. I'm more critical when I see a CV where half a page is devoted to a 3 month gig.
That's IMO a super-useful section to have. You might want to word budget each section a bit more aggressively to get it down to 2 pages total, but I wouldn't sweat it too much :)
Just put yourself into the shoes of the reader: Imagine getting 80 applications and having 1h to process them because you also have to do your actual work. That's less than a minute per application.
(really happened to me)
How would you filter?
My take:
I used a timer, if time ran out, I had to go to the next application to be fair to everyone.
Anything with >2 pages I couldn't find the info I was looking for fast enough and had to go to the next application. 1 page CVs were usually lacking info. 2 page CVs were the sweet spot if they sticked to the general format: page 1 - work experience/education, page 2 - skills and certifications, everything in bullet points.
@Em0nM4stodon
I think this is a very hard question to answer. And as always, it depends (on a lot of context 😉)
If you are experienced it might be hard to fit your experiences on 1 or even 3 pages
(I consider font size 5 NOT a good idea😜)
Some guiding principles I use are:
Short is better
But no (accidental) gaps
Drop irrelevant things
This includes things you have no interest doing them (e.g you extensively uses programming language X but you'd like to leave this chapter behind you, it becomes simple "software development")
Additionally I drop (or shorten) things i don't consider relevant to the job I'm applying to.
And third, drop or collapse old stuff (e.g. I'm that old that i worked with a lot of different flavours of UNIX, a list of these is simply no longer relevant)
Adhering to this i can probably get my CV down to about 3 pages. But just listing the workplace with the name, their "industry" and my experience ahead brings me close to 4 or more pages. And in the end i prefer a page mir to squeezing everything in.
E.g. In Germany your CV includes a picture and your address. This takes up a considerable part of the first page but it's irrelevant when looking at my experience. So I usually put it on a separate cover page
@Em0nM4stodon I have a single page. I have a hard time getting interviews. Every resume I’ve seen when interviewing candidates at <employer> has been multiple pages. Most of them are what I would call terrible, most unfocused. We’ve hired several of them and they’ve been alright.
I don’t know shit about writing a resume, apparently.
@Em0nM4stodon also worth noting that we have a hard time, as an industry, with this. Interviewing is a different skill set, largely speaking, than most of the jobs that you might be interviewing for and we don’t have a good, or accepted way of meaningfully evaluating people (I would say except for OTJ performance, but that statement doesn’t hold well either because of biases in the evaluators against candidates/employees who don’t superficially look like me).
@Em0nM4stodon Personally I say the length of a resume is dependent upon the type of job being applied for. Three pages is fine as long as the layout is done in away that doesn't make the information overwhelming.
My understanding is that it depends on the field. In tech I've been coached to have a punchy one or two page resume. I have heard that in academia, for example, it can get quite long as you're supposed to heavily detail your work.
@Em0nM4stodon
Some organizations expect a multi-pagr resume. But before you submit yours, find out what your prospective employer wants.
Generally the resume should be one page, even if you have lots of experience to show.
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