- 10 Steps to Creating a Resume That Will Blow Away the Competition – Step 1: White Space
- 10 Steps to Creating a Resume That Will Blow Away the Competition – Step 2: Bullet Points
- 10 Steps to Creating a Resume That Will Blow Away the Competition – Step 3: Aligning Bullets
- 10 Steps to Creating a Resume That Will Blow Away the Competition – Step 4: Paper
- 10 Steps to Creating a Resume That Will Blow Away the Competition – Step 5: Length
- 10 Steps to Creating a Resume That Will Blow Away the Competition – Step 6: Format
- 10 Steps to Creating a Resume That Will Blow Away the Competition – Step 7: Objectives
- 10 Steps to Creating a Resume That Will Blow Away the Competition – Step 8: Achievements
- 10 Steps to Creating a Resume That Will Blow Away the Competition – Step 9: Job Descriptions
- 10 Steps to Creating a Resume That Will Blow Away the Competition – Step 10: Education & Training
A resume shouldn’t be more than two pages long. If you can get all the information on one page without cramming it all together that would be even better.
As I mentioned before, hiring managers, prospective employers, and HR personnel sometimes have hundreds of resumes to go through in very little time. You want the most important information to be highlighted within the top third on the first page. If there are two or more pages they may not even get a glance.
To help you with keeping the resume to one page, ask yourself if the information you want to put on it really applies to the position you are going after. If the answer is “no” then leave it off. If the answer is “yes” then it can go on the resume. Be selective about what you put on the resume. You can always elaborate when you get called in for an interview. Remember, you resume is not your life story. You can leave some things off of it and still sound like the wonderful person you are.
Next time, we’ll get into choosing the proper format for your resume.
Until then,
