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Question for the Hiring Staff: What resume lenght is acceptable?

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steppinthrax

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I have about 4 years IT experience and just recently received my Masters. My resume is in the 4 page range. I heard for mid-level you should have really only 2-pages? I also heard that those “one-page” rules are kind of outdated and really anything will work?
 
The less the better. 1 is best but isn't very realistic for anybody that has more than a job or two worth of experience.
 
Only put down what applies to that job. If it 1 page so be it, if 4 then send 4.

But don;t tell stories in your resume, get your Knowledge, Skills, and Abilites on the paper. The more filler you have the less chance someone will actually read the "good" part.

<- Fed Gov HR
 
I work in academia, and CVs can stretch several pages, but for a mid-level IT person, 4 pages seems a bit much. Especially for only 4 years of experience. 2 pages is more than enough for you - your resume seems a bit wordy.
 
Ive seen the resumes of a few college professors. They tend to be over 20 pages long. If your resume is excessively long such that it acts as a detailed log of everything you've done, you might want to make a short version but continue to maintain the long version and make it excessively detailed while you're at it.
 
You better be a nobel prize winner in science + the president of some decent sized pacific island to have 4 pages of resume. Most people are worried about 2 pages being too much.
 
A resume does not get you a job. It gets you an interview. The interview determines if you deserve the job. A resume is like an ad, for a worker. Its just going to get the company salivating, thats all. Its not supposed to have your life history. No one cares and anything important will need to be discussed in person anyway. And the longer it is, the less likely they are to read the damn thing.

Keep it one page.
 
Like others have said, strive for one page. If it's more then that it isn't the end of the world, but you really should try your best to keep it on one page.
 
Get all the important facts on the first page, and if you feel the need put some additional details on Page 2, but I personally hardly ever look past the first two pages at most.
 
AyashiKaibutsu said:
You better be a nobel prize winner in science + the president of some decent sized pacific island to have 4 pages of resume. Most people are worried about 2 pages being too much.
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This. You really have two choices for length of resum&#233;: 1 page or 2 pages. There are exceptions to this rule, but you're not one of them.

FWIW, I have 5 years IT experience and a master's degree and have a 1-page resum&#233;.
 
When I was taking my portfolio class, I was asking everyone for their input on my resume, as well as copies of their resume, so if I found something that I liked, that they did, I'd try to use it on mine. My cisco teacher had a 5 page resume, it was jaw-dropping of all of his skills and experience. Dating all the way back to when he used to work/volunteer when he first started college.
Really cool and intelligent dude. Used to hang out and talk to him every night after class until school closed. Although he was usually too busy to sit down and critique my resume.
I go with 2 pages. First page is school, skills, etc. Second page is work experience in the IT field.
 
Four years of IT experience means the lenght [sic] of your resume should be one page.

If you are a badass, maybe two, but if you have to ask chances are you weren't a badass.
 
kalrith said:
This. You really have two choices for length of resumé: 1 page or 2 pages. There are exceptions to this rule, but you're not one of them.

FWIW, I have 5 years IT experience and a master's degree and have a 1-page resumé.
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agreed
 
kalrith said:
FWIW, I have 5 years IT experience and a master's degree and have a 1-page resumé.
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similar here. 6 years, MS in progress, and also 1 page.

you may be able to justify 2, although I'd still say try to get it to 1.

4 is right out.
 
Two pages absolute max and that's with good spacing, but one page is preferred. Anything three pages and over we put to the back of the pile and only go to them if we are in dire straits. Hiring and reading resumes is not fun, particularly when you are already so freaking busy; why would you torture me with a 3+ page resume!

KT
 
I think mine goes barely onto two pages but it's only references on the second page.

'Bout 12 years exp. Keep it short and concise. Get the buzz words in there for your skills. Tailor it to the job you are applying for. (A hiring manager for an IT position probably wont care that you worked at McDonalds as a teenager, or that you like to paint in your spare time)

I do giggle a little when I see people over 30 years old who still put their high school education down, along with college on their resume. Unless you've only graduated high school, then you're wasting prime resume space.
 
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