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> in my experience most people won't bother reading past the first page. Those people should not be involved in hiring. I know it sucks to read page after page
by alxlaz 8y ago
> in my experience most people won't bother reading past the first page.
Those people should not be involved in hiring. I know it sucks to read page after page of seemingly irrelevant stuff until you find that one good candidate, but that's literally your job. Complain all you want, then do it. I, too, hate dealing with poor code from irresponsible vendors, undocumented libraries or legacy applications, but I don't stop reading past the second file of source code.
- learc83 8y ago>Those people should not be involved in hiring. My point was that those kind of people are involved in hiring, and the single page resume has become fairly standard. You personally may prefer a longer academic CV style. I think that probably makes sense, if anyone profession could use that type of resume it's ours. However, that isn't currently the norm, and I suspect that you'd see a net loss if you always sent out a 4 page resume instead of condensing it to single page of bullet points. I will say that I could be completely wrong on this. It could be that the increased interest from people who want 4 page resumes might more than make up for the people who won't bother reading it, but I don't think so.