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Hey. Thanks for the thoughtful response! Sorry if that was a bit abrasive, but it's a hot topic for me, and I really think it matters. I totally agree with you

Hey. Thanks for the thoughtful response! Sorry if that was a bit abrasive, but it's a hot topic for me, and I really think it matters. I totally agree with you in that you shouldn't ever be wasting space. It's disrespectful if you're really not providing anything better in 3 pages that you could have in 1. I'm just frustrated at the immediate dismissal of having more than one page (and I don't mean to single you out, it's everyone). The goal should be to convey information as densely as possible (i.e. high signal to noise) while also taking care to convey relevant information. If it goes over a page even then, that's fine.

fecak 13y ago
Not abrasive - seemed like a fair comment to me. When you read enough resumes, you'll notice these problems of redundancy and spacing issues. Seeing a document that is long just gives that immediate negative impression that is sometimes hard to overcome, just as you might get if you were reviewing code that seems verbose - it doesn't mean that the code is always horrible, but you can probably determine that some of it is at least unnecessary to perform the task at hand. I don't immediately dismiss any resumes, but some do. I rarely get one page resumes, but when I do it tends to be a strong candidate - I'd be lying if I didn't notice a correlation between interview success and resume length, at least for candidates of similar career levels. As I said, resume length just seems to create an immediate negative. 1 or 2 pages doesn't create that feeling, and even 3 can be tolerated. You'd probably be astonished at how many 5 page resumes I get from people with 2 or 3 years of overall industry experience.