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Just a note, this article isn't about the length of a paper resume, it's about students using online portfolios to store information on projects, verified trans

by rm999 13y ago

Just a note, this article isn't about the length of a paper resume, it's about students using online portfolios to store information on projects, verified transcripts, etc. Basically, a more thorough replacement for a resume. But regarding your question, I think two pages is perfectly fine in the tech world, if you have enough to say. By the time you're ten years into a career I'd be surprised if you don't want more than a page to talk about what you know and what you've done. I think the aesthetic gains from a one page resume aren't worth the risk of omitting something that's important to a potential employer. It's the four page resumes that annoy me.

ScottBurson 13y ago
I'm 34 years into my career and I still maintain a one-page résumé. I think keeping it to one page shows respect for a reader's time. Instead of dumping everything I can think of onto the page and letting them pick through it for what's important, I do that work for them. In many cases I've customized the résumé to some extent for the employer. I've never had anyone tell me it was too short.
- rm999 13y ago
  >I think keeping it to one page shows respect for a reader's time A well-laid out resume does this for the reader. Basically, the reader should be able to get a high-level idea of the applicant by quickly reading the top of each section/subsection, and then dig deeper into whatever they feel is relevant by moving deeper into the "tree". Anecdotally, when I interview senior level people (data scientists, but this would apply to software engineers too), more than half the resumes are two pages. It's not abnormal and by no means a deal-killer. The last guy I interviewed had seven jobs and three degrees crammed into a single page - I had to waste 25% of the interview just asking him what he did at each job because his resume didn't tell me (except a title and a really terse summary). This only hurt him because I had less time to build a case to hire him.

by rm999 13y ago

ScottBurson 13y ago

I'm 34 years into my career and I still maintain a one-page résumé. I think keeping it to one page shows respect for a reader's time. Instead of dumping everything I can think of onto the page and letting them pick through it for what's important, I do that work for them. In many cases I've customized the résumé to some extent for the employer. I've never had anyone tell me it was too short.

rm999 13y ago
>I think keeping it to one page shows respect for a reader's time A well-laid out resume does this for the reader. Basically, the reader should be able to get a high-level idea of the applicant by quickly reading the top of each section/subsection, and then dig deeper into whatever they feel is relevant by moving deeper into the "tree". Anecdotally, when I interview senior level people (data scientists, but this would apply to software engineers too), more than half the resumes are two pages. It's not abnormal and by no means a deal-killer. The last guy I interviewed had seven jobs and three degrees crammed into a single page - I had to waste 25% of the interview just asking him what he did at each job because his resume didn't tell me (except a title and a really terse summary). This only hurt him because I had less time to build a case to hire him.