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Yes, when you think about all the resumes a company will receive for a position, they don't want to spend a long time reviewing. You need to be a little creative and list the most important details about yourself. You don't have to list your very first job experience. Some people will have had several jobs in their life dating back to high school. Keep it fresh and don't use a cookie cutter resume. There are sites on line to give you ideas to make you stand out from the rest. You have to shine like a star these days to get noticed. Good luck.
In the old stamp and envelope days maybe. In the electronic keyword math days, maybe not.
It might be as simple as the most keywords wins in which case a longer resume would probably be beneficial. On the other hand, it might be percentage of keywords to a resume with a lot of common nouns could be harmful.
I think it depends on the job and your history. I've read that in academia it's quite common for resumes to be longer. I'd google on it. There is some good info out there on this topic.
I would say yes its too long. Think about when you see a question on citydata and it goes on and on forever, generally with no paragraph breaks...lol...its not generally one your going to read all of. I think its somewhat similar with resumes.
As a society we have very short attention spans, also people are pressed for time. I think you could find a way to consolidate all that experience into one page and leave off all the lines about your duties and just hilite major responsibilities and maybe industry software your familiar with
The interview is where you'll have a chance to expand. I agree its tough to get an interview with all the competition for jobs but I think a 3 page resume may be totally overlooked.
Also, with all the resumes comming in more a chance of pages getting seperated as well be it fax or emails printed
Basically no one cares if you have a cat called Cindy or if you played recorder at school, or indeed, if you really really like fruit cake.
Your CV should have basic education details to prove your not an idiot, two years of employment history, and some minor personal details. Anything more than a page is excessive, if nothing else it won't be read. If you had 300 CVs to read would you really go beyond scanning the first page?
I would say yes its too long. Think about when you see a question on citydata and it goes on and on forever, generally with no paragraph breaks...lol...its not generally one your going to read all of. I think its somewhat similar with resumes.
As a society we have very short attention spans, also people are pressed for time. I think you could find a way to consolidate all that experience into one page and leave off all the lines about your duties and just hilite major responsibilities and maybe industry software your familiar with
The interview is where you'll have a chance to expand. I agree its tough to get an interview with all the competition for jobs but I think a 3 page resume may be totally overlooked.
Also, with all the resumes comming in more a chance of pages getting seperated as well be it fax or emails printed
My job experience is pretty much listed on pages 2 and 3. Page 1 has my education and qualifications listed and part of page 3 has my athletic accomplishments. The position that I am applying for is for an Athletic Director at a college.
Anything over one page is flotsam no one will plow through. Into the dumper it will go.
Keep it brief and to the point.
Attention spans are short these days. Think newspaper headlines, billboards, text messages. This is the current mindset of resume readers (and resume scanning software).
Give them the facts ma'am, and only the facts--be sure to include necessary keywords for the position--and then shut up.
Companies are not interested in you. They are interested in your pedigree which can usually be outlined for acceptance or rejection in a few nanoseconds.
One page-anything more than one page-goes to the trash-list your most current one or two jobs, education, and skills-that's it...do not put in objectives, or anything personal (hobbies etc).
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