Resume length?

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

When is acceptable to have a three page resume?

Is that common for older people?

Any advice.

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[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Nope two page max—page 1 education/background
page 2 work history

[StargazerParticipant 12505]

For a more complicated job I could see a two paged resume, so long as one was full of relevant work experience… but as a hiring decision maker, I generally would toss out any resume that had too much personal information, accolades, irrelevant work experience or “goals and objectives”.

Give me your vitals and your relevant school and work and if that looks good, I’ll let you tell me your story in person.

So for me, one pge. Tight and dynamic. Don’t tell me everything, make me want to know more.

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

I have 30 years of work experience. How do I condense it into 2 pages?

There is no fluff or personal info.

Some say only list the last 10 years. That leaves off some good stuff.

Please advise.

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[EekParticipant 1162]

I have a long version of my resume which pretty much lists everything going back to college, and is updated whenever work details necessitate.

When applying for a job I reformulate the long version down into a short version that reflects what the job is looking for, I try to keep it to one page if possible.

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Jan Sobieski wrote:

I have 30 years of work experience. How do I condense it into 2 pages?

There is no fluff or personal info.

Some say only list the last 10 years. That leaves off some good stuff.

Please advise.

pick your big career achievements, weighted to the job you’re applying (ie: the relevant ones). What if 90% of that 30 years is irrelevant to the job?

Make it simple, concise and designed to pique their interest. Your initial resume has one purpose — get you through the pre-screening and your foot in the door.

Don’t have a boilerplate resume — re-write it for each job.

As Son of R’lyeh says – if they want more, they’ll ask.

I like to take along a longer resume for the first face to face, so its at hand.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

The consulting world is peculiar. Consulting resumes have a specific structure where they are pages and pages and pages (Can be 30 or more pages), with every “engagement” you have done, and all the bulls~~~ generator stuff you can squeeze into two paragraphs for each engagement

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For me personally, I never go more than one page. I keep erasing and consolidating s~~~. When I view someone else’s resume, I hardly read it – I give it two seconds max. I just see if the layout has a nice feel, and if anything is misspelled. It’s amazing how many resumes look like crap.

[SandalsParticipant 4253]

Jan Sobieski wrote:

When is acceptable to have a three page resume?

Is that common for older people?

Any advice.

My guess would be is if you are applying for an engineering job (civil, mechanical, architectural), a three page resume would work.

[ShineParticipant 1696]

Jan Sobieski wrote:

I have 30 years of work experience. How do I condense it into 2 pages?

I think the last 10 years is as far back as you need to go. If you need to go back further just a glimpse at the highlights.

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[DorkShitParticipant 4353]

We receive 300 resumes for a position.

Company does not want highly skilled, highly expensive individuals.

Any resume over 1 page, I toss. Usually have to go through 100 or so to filter out ten.

I am speaking from a technical, engineering type scenario. If you are going technical the people interviewing you are technical. They hate resume crap.

Every position is unique so I am just one such scenario.

Personally, I have 10 different resumes. One for each specific discipline. Each one page in length.

I send resume surgically to specific job requirements.

Less is more. Spoken from someone who has filtered thousands of resumes.

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[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

I’ve always been told keep it to two pages or less.

Realistically a lot of the time your resume doesn’t get read past your introduction paragraph. So make it good.

Mine WOULD be 3 pages with employment history but I cut it down to my past 3 jobs and put a note at the end with my linkedin profile for information pre-dating my 3rd oldest employer.

These days though humans don’t even really read the resume anyways. A machine goes through it for keyword matches and then it’ll get forwarded to a human. So maybe make your 3rd page if you need one just a keyword bomb lol.

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

If you have so much experience that your resume is too fat for a glance, one solution is to use a resume summery. One page summery and then the full resume under it. They can decide from the summery if they want to continue reading the whole thing. Just make sure they understand what your doing when you turn it in.

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[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

DorkShit wrote:

Personally, I have 10 different resumes. One for each specific discipline. Each one page in length.

I don’t use a one size fits all either. I read the job description and write the resume for that job.

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[KevinStylesParticipant 2580]

FrostByte wrote:

If you have so much experience that your resume is too fat for a glance, one solution is to use a resume summery. One page summery and then the full resume under it. They can decide from the summery if they want to continue reading the whole thing. Just make sure they understand what your doing when you turn it in.

That’s what I do, my first page is intro and all the skills I use in my jobs broken out into four key categories. My 2nd page is then a chronological list of employers, position and 3 or 4 key contributions at those employers.

I don’t make a new resume for every employer though, given application response is like 99% non-existant i won’t invest that much time into applying for a position (and yes, i’ve done custom resumes in the past just to see if it made any difference, it didn’t). I tend to just write a customized cover letter for each app, takes less time to do that.

I hear video interviews are now becomming a common thing where if your resume passes the first machine keyword screening, they email you a list of questions that you video yourself answering on their website. The machine then analyzes that and THEN maybe you get to talk to a human on the 3rd pass. Honestly it’s getting so f~~~ing asinine applying for work these days i’m not surprised so many people are opting out and doing their own things online.

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