Resume Length

I have a question about the length a resume should be. Mine ends up being about two pages but I've heard from others it should be a single page. There's no way I can get my education, job experience, and qualifications on one page. Is that going to be a problem?

 

In my opinion, once you have years of experience, you can make it more than one page. For example, mine is ~1.5 pages but I've worked for 3 different companies and have had multiple positions in 2 of those companies. If you're just out of undergrad, there's no reason why you can't fit it to 1 page. If you're finishing up your MBA, I'm sure many have resumes that are 1-2 pages (unless you only held 1 job pre-mba).

 

Just for a point of reference here, I'm 30 so I've had many jobs and I went to community college and my current school. Should I just cut out my community college and leave my most recent job or two?

 

Seconded, @Poff . Depends on what point you're at in your career. Believe me, if you're just out of undergrad, a 1 page resume is totally possible no matter how much crap you've participated in.

It'll take lots of time and effort to get it just right with just enough information on it for you to hook a potential employer, but once it's concise it's a great feeling to want to give people your resume since you know it looks good.

Maximum effort.
 

Ok, thanks everyone. It's hard for me to drop a lot of it just because I served in the military and I'd like for employers to see that but unfortunately I didn't do anything accounting/finance related there. Plus the only job I have in the field is what I'm doing now and that's being an accounting assistant.

 

Are you from Europe? I know that elsewhere people hand in multiple page resumes, but in the US the rule is usually 1 page. If you absolutely must, then you might get away with 2 pages, but anything more than that and you're an automatic ding. I'd stick to 1 page.

 

In Canada,

Most of the undergrads that I have seen have two page resumes. 1 page for Grad/MBA.

Here'the simple format

objective Education Work Experience Skills (Computer skills, etC) Interests

 

thanks again guys, I've compressed it to a page and got in touch with a senior MD (personal contact) and an analyst (alumni contact) at my target firm. Hopefully, all will go well. I really do appreciate the help.

 
Best Response
  1. melvvvar is a troll
  2. 1 page for the next decade
  3. after your first job, take off all irrelevant info: if you were in a banking club, leave it on. If you played intramural soccer, take that off. For the first job, you carpet bomb with info to get a foot in the door. For all jobs after that, you're merely trying to establish that you're a credible fit.
Get busy living
 

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