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It's important to remember that the "x pages" rule of thumb is a hang-over from when we had paper resumes. Current reading behaviour is somewhat different and
by ig1 13y ago
It's important to remember that the "x pages" rule of thumb is a hang-over from when we had paper resumes.
Current reading behaviour is somewhat different and tends towards scanning/skipping because the breaks between pages are much less significant with a resume on screen.
- bronbron 13y agoI dunno, I (and I would suspect many others) have the same tendency when reading PDFs - if it's more than 1 page, I skim to the end then go back up, much like I would on a paper document. Are you citing something or just generalizing from what you've seen?
- ig1 13y agoI've not seen a paper directly comparing the two, but if you look at resume correlation studies (comparing attributes of CV to acceptance/rejection rates), resume length generally has a stronger correlation to outcome in paper resume studies than electronic resume studies. (there may be other factors at play though, as candidates who submit paper resumes are obviously different from candidates who submit electronic resumes; in addition most of the paper resume studies are now historical (pre-2000) so there may also be a time factor involved)
- mech4bg 13y agoI still read a resume page by page. Maybe it's different if it's displayed as a web page, but most are still in page form in a PDF. Also, the '1 page' rule of thumb is not a hangover, it's a great rule - one physical page happens a good amount of space to show your experience, but not have too much information that it can't all be read quickly. It's a positive limitation.