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I'm not so sure about this bit: > Resumes should be summaries, with more detail for recent positions, less detail for more distant ones. If you’ve been in indu

I'm not so sure about this bit: > Resumes should be summaries, with more detail for recent positions, less detail for more distant ones. If you’ve been in industry for ten years, you can have a second page. No one needs more than two. I agree with this in principle, and strongly 'implemented' this approach as well in an earlier version of my CV. [To be fair, I'm looking for a product management role, and not a dev job, so maybe it's different here?] But recruiters just kept asking me for a more detailed version so often, that I just gave up and made a 2-pager. I personally believe it goes into far too much detail than is necessary, but the difference in response is quite stark from both startups and BigCos alike. From the other side of the issue, when recruiting PMs or analysts, I always made a conscious effort to ensure that CVs that fell afoul of 'industry standard guidelines' weren't overlooked solely for those reasons. As in, I honestly didn't give a shit if it was one page, or two, or six, as long as it gave the information I was looking for. (However, I suspect I may have been in a minority then..)

jiggy2011 14y ago
Every single person, whether they are a recruiter and project manager , a guidance counsellor or your mother has a different opinion about how long your CV/Resume should be and will have all sorts of reasons justifying why they are correct. So the only sensible thing to do is go with the length that you feel sells you best.
- warrenm 14y ago
  I can't agree more! Mine has 'relevant' experience on the first couple, then 'other' experience on the last howevermany. A fixed length is one of the worst things you can do, in my opinion: it needs to be how I heard an English professor describe her writing assignments: "It should be like a girl's skirt - long enough to cover everything, but short enough to keep it interesting"

jiggy2011 14y ago

Every single person, whether they are a recruiter and project manager , a guidance counsellor or your mother has a different opinion about how long your CV/Resume should be and will have all sorts of reasons justifying why they are correct. So the only sensible thing to do is go with the length that you feel sells you best.

warrenm 14y ago
I can't agree more! Mine has 'relevant' experience on the first couple, then 'other' experience on the last howevermany. A fixed length is one of the worst things you can do, in my opinion: it needs to be how I heard an English professor describe her writing assignments: "It should be like a girl's skirt - long enough to cover everything, but short enough to keep it interesting"