2 pages if enough experience. A listing of positions is not really interesting, I want to know more about what the candidate did in each firm and probably expand on one or two.
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#121 page for every 7 to 10 years of experience.
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#13Doesn't matter. I wouldn't reject an applicant based on whether their resume has two pages or whether they try to squeeze a ton of info in 10pt font. Frankly, it wouldn't even affect my impression of the applicant in any way.
What matters is the contents. If you add a hobbies section to fill space, it'll make you look very junior, for example. A long education section or overly specific explanation of previous roles will have a similar effect.
If you have a ton of experience and need space to highlight experience w/ different stacks and/or team management aspects, then by all means, make a long resume to make your seniority show through. In that case, covering a broad number of aspects might reveal early that you're not a good fit for my particular needs, but it might also help pass your resume around internally to other teams where you could be a good fit.
Just don't BS it. It's pretty easy to catch buzzword-slinging w/ a phone or face-to-face screening.
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#14My resume is four pages or more, and I have zero problem getting hired.
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#15My resume is four pages or more, and I have zero problem getting hired.
Same with me, I don't understand why it should only have 1 or 2 pages, if I have a lot of experience I want to put it there otherwise it will look like I have less experience than I actually have it is impossible for me to fit everything in 2 pages
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#16I do a ranking on the first page where I show my experience with various technologies. I also put a legend off to the side.
5 stars for Python and SQL. (8-10 years experience), 4 stars for C#, web frameworks like Pyramid, or flask (5-8), etc.
That's a grid that takes about a third of a page. I spend the rest of the page explaining what I have done and where that's recent and relevant to the gig I'm applying for.
I don't have a resume that I would send to anyone. I have a resume template that gets customized for whatever job I'm looking at.
I keep the relevant stuff on one page and I put references on the the second.
Your mileage may vary, but this has worked extremely well for me.
On the flip side, when I'm looking to hire, I don't care if your resume is 1 page or 4. Honestly, I'm looking for a reason to toss it in the trash and get to the next one. I'm looking for typos and stupid shit like that.
Don't tell me your list of things that you've done. It's probably bullshit anyway. Tell me the kinds of things you are interested in doing. Tell me what you are excited about and why and how it fits into why my company is doing.
That will make me pick up the phone and call you.
Your cover letter is far more important to me than your resume.
Edited to add: As a hiring manager, your resume needs to show me three things: Can you think? Can you write? Can you work well with a team.
If you can do those things, I will hire you and train you.
And also PPS: I'm hiring right now. :)
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#17Two (or more) is perfectly fine, on two conditions:
First format it so that everything vital is on page one, even on a multi page resume I should get a good idea about you are from just the first page.
Secondly, and more importantly, only write a multi page resume if you have actually done enough stuff relevant to the position to warrant a multi page resume. Don't pad your resume with irrelevancies just to make it look long.
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#18I have 2~3 pages. I write quite a bit about what I did at my last positions and list the most important projects that I worked on and explain briefly what I did for those projects. So far the only comments I have received on my resume are that it's impressive.