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If you click on the Monster.com link you will see lots of resumes for people in blue collar jobs with two pages. I am semi retired working about twenty hours a week.
You use two pages if you need two pages. My assumption is that most students at a tech school don't have two pages worth of experience.
Last evening I had a student say that HR won't let applicants submit a resume that is more than one page under any circumstances. So we went online on Monster.com and I showed the class countless resume examples that were two pages long. In fact 95% of their resume template/examples are two pages. But the students still insisted the resumes could only be one page and us instructors did not know what we were talking about!
That is the type of challenge we are facing. (The students insist they know more than the instructors.)
It isn't uncommon for the length of resumes to be two pages. HOWEVER what the employer reads beyond the first page during their scan of it isn't the two pages, it's the first. From my experience at interviews and job fairs, I find it common that the employers don't even look at the second page. Online is a bit different and I couldn't tell you. Perhaps that was what the students meant.
I'm not trying to sound like a Debby Downer but while I like what you are doing, it is a great idea after all; that perhaps you need to learn what is the ways that people get jobs today. Focus on that. Some is networking but a lot of it is reading a company and a job and knowing the buzzwords. I've found that the buzzwords have worked for me in the three different job interviews I've had that I have actually got a job from it.
Most of the students will be appying online and their resume will not be looked at unless they have key words and accomplishment statements that are picked up by the applicant tracking software. So the need for a more comprehensive resume.
Most of the students are older and have lots of jobs on their resume. Most one page resumes I see are jammed up with 8 pt font and a lack of white space, which makes it even harder for the employer to scan once they actually look at it on paper.
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It isn't uncommon for the length of resumes to be two pages. HOWEVER what the employer reads beyond the first page during their scan of it isn't the two pages, it's the first. From my experience at interviews and job fairs, I find it common that the employers don't even look at the second page. Online is a bit different and I couldn't tell you. Perhaps that was what the students meant.
I'm not trying to sound like a Debby Downer but while I like what you are doing, it is a great idea after all; that perhaps you need to learn what is the ways that people get jobs today. Focus on that. Some is networking but a lot of it is reading a company and a job and knowing the buzzwords. I've found that the buzzwords have worked for me in the three different job interviews I've had that I have actually got a job from it.
My brother in law is a hiring manager for CAT (Caterpillar). My brother is a project manager for one of the largest engineering firms in the US. My sister is a head engineer at the local branch of Omron Electronics. All 3 of these people plus my boss have told me that the 1-page resume format is horribly outdated. It's perfectly ok to have more than 1 page for your resume.
And a resume is not a complete work history so, depending on what they are applying for, a lot of those entries might need to be reduced or eliminated.
The first page contains my degrees, goals, skills, and accomplishments. Yes, I have plenty of those. I'm also very specific about my skills and accomplishments.
The 2nd and 3rd pages have my work history. I'm also very specific about my work history. For example, under each job, I would list my assignments and responsibilities with dates attached to them. I also have a field under each job for my accomplishments and what I've learned from those jobs.
Most of the students will be appying online and their resume will not be looked at unless they have key words and accomplishment statements that are picked up by the applicant tracking software. So the need for a more comprehensive resume.
Most of the students are older and have lots of jobs on their resume. Most one page resumes I see are jammed up with 8 pt font and a lack of white space, which makes it even harder for the employer to scan once they actually look at it on paper.
Yes but in person, you maybe lucky getting it seen beyond page one. Online is a different animal altogether.
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