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I've always been weary of the advice to keep your resume at 1 page. Mine has always been exactly 2 pages. To get it down to 1 page, I suppose I could cut entire
by JangoSteve 17y ago
I've always been weary of the advice to keep your resume at 1 page. Mine has always been exactly 2 pages. To get it down to 1 page, I suppose I could cut entire items and make me seem more 1-dimensional, or I could make the specifics more general (e.g. remove "increased sales by 23% in 6 months" kind of statements) which makes the resume much less noticable.
I've always just chosen to make it 2 pages. And I've gotten every job I've ever applied for (though this is only in part thanks to the resume of course).
Now this doesn't mean disregard the advice about making your resume 1 page. It just means that there are no hard-coded rules about your resume, interview, etc, that will make or break your chances.
- eru 17y agoTwo pages also works nice for me. And it allows me to let LaTeX do its pretty things. The one-page-rule is not an end in itself, but actually a proxy for quick readability/scannability. The currvita package has a nice, light layout by default, so there's actually not much more in my resume than in most one pagers. But it's easier to read on two pages, than crammed into one.