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Just realized I was making my résumé way too long this whole time
I used to cram every job duty into two pages because I thought more detail looked better. Then a recruiter I met at a networking event in Denver told me she skips anything past page one. Has anyone else cut theirs down and seen better results?
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margaret2344d ago
Three years ago I took my resume from two pages down to just one and my interview calls went up by about 40 percent. It's funny how the same pattern shows up in other things, like when people cram too many details into a cover letter and lose the reader's attention. Sometimes less really is more when you're trying to get someone to actually stop and look at what matters.
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elizabeth_bailey264d ago
Exactly, @margaret234, less is almost always more until you're trying to explain why you left that one job after six months, then suddenly you need footnotes. I tried the one-page thing and my resume looked like a ransom note by the time I fit everything in. But hey, if it got you 40 percent more calls, maybe I'll give it another shot with a bigger font.
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