Should a resume be more than a page?
How long should a resume be? 1 Page: Early Career or someone with 1 employer 2 Pages: Mid-Career - moderate job moves 3 Pages: Senior Leadership - Executive Resumes that are longer 😱🤪😱 There are recruiters and hiring managers who prefer 1 page resumes, but if one has a long career, it is very difficult to provide enough information resume readers seek on one page. Before a human resume reader skims your resume at 1000 mph, every resume these days are collected by an ATS (Applicant Tracking System) and filtered by AI. AI will score your resume based on alignment with the job: location, titles, responsibilities, requirements, certifications, education requirements, etc. It will scan your resume for soft skills, hard skills, and core competencies. If your resume is short and sweet, but lacks the information an opportunity is seeking from candidates, you will not score well. As mentioned in the course, you can test your resume with AI. I will also create a demo video to add to the course. If a senior leader has a resume that’s three pages long, that’s acceptable. I’ve seen resumes that are much longer, but beyond three pages, resumes tend to be less succinct and over share. An entry level candidate should have a one page resume and someone mid career or with less career movement should have two pages. Government agencies want a maximum of two pages, but government agencies tend to have criteria not based on normal realities in the civilian world. Regardless of resume length, if your resume is not designed to hit them like a sledgehammer, telling them that you are relevant and competent in 10 seconds or less and spoon feeds them what they are looking for, it really doesn’t matter if It’s the length of a Post-it Note or Tolstoy’s War and Peace.