Just How Long Should a Resume Be - Guidelines on Resume Length
Posted: Sunday, March 20, 2011
by Julie Green
http://christmasjobs.org
When it comes to writing resumes, one question that always arises regards the length of the resume. Should everything be included in a single page? One of the most widespread misconceptions when it comes to resume writing is that the whole professional history should fit within a single 8 ½”x11” white paper page. Truth of the matter is, a resume should be very concise and well written in order to endorse your qualifications in the best light possible.
The first and most important thing is to be as concise as possible in your resume. Employers today are looking for straight forward information that highlights your education, your experience, and your competence. Avoid using lengthy paragraphs and sentences to divulge your education and experience. You can demonstrate your creative writing skills anywhere else but in a resume.
Secondly, you need to make your resume perfect. Remember that you have only this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch the attention of a potential employer. Ensure your resume is well formatted, ensure you create suitable professional parts in your resume, ensure there are no typographical errors, ensure you use correct grammar, and more importantly avoid fitting too much information on a single page. A potential employer is always more concerned with the content and appearance of a resume than with how long it is.
If you lack the experience to make up for your career objective, you are better off with a brief and concise resume. If you are changing careers, perhaps you are fresh from college and are new in the industry with no experience, or perhaps if you have only had a single job in your life, you are better off with a one-page resume. If you have no experience to back up your career objective, never apologize for it by filling up a resume with fluff content; rather, work at highlighting your strong points and transferable skills.
As a rule of thumb, unless you have decades of experience, are composing a CV or are eyeing an executive-level post, your resume shouldn’t be more than two pages long. Remember that the main purpose of a properly-written resume is to present you as the most competent candidate for the post with a straight-forward and confident approach to the job and to life in general. Never oversell your experience and skills. As such, you should only highlight the experience and skills that you feel best meet your career objective and more importantly the job requirements.
You should put your most important information on the first page and your contact information on the second page, which ought to be numbered. If when writing your resume you find that you are going past two pages, go back and review your resume to ensure you are not putting in information that is unrelated to the position you are eyeing or to your personal goals and ambitions.
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