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?
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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).
Unless you are Jamie Dimon, one page.
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.
Yeah lose the community college and any jobs that aren't directly relevant to what you're going for now. Have the title 'selected work experience' or 'relevant work experience' or something if you want to allude to the fact that this is a snapshot of your experience and not its sum.
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.
If you upload your resume as a pdf I'm sure many people will be able to help you out.
CV Length (Originally Posted: 10/16/2006)
Hey all,
I'm submitting my CV to a few banks in the next couple weeks, I was wondering how long would you recommend it be? Clearly, there can be quite a bit of variance but a general idea would help me exclude any non vital information.
Thank you
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
One page definetely - Worked with Ivey guys - all had one pagers.
as an undergrad 1 page is the most...you really haven't done much in life to warrant 2 pages by that point
I think you should be able to put all the relevant and vital information in 1 page. Anything more than that, you are probably being verbose and inconcise.
thanks guys,
some might say that I couldn't fill a sentence with what I've done in my life. j/k
1 page for an undergrad...TOPS
You really have nothing worthy to tell the bank 95% of the time that merits the space. After all...at most 2-3 worthwhile internships to talk about...
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.
good luck
For those of you that are working (post u-grad) - How long is your resume? (Originally Posted: 02/11/2012)
How long is your resume now that you have started work? I have done a lot in the last year and worked on two-three major projects (think software development/pm). How much real estate should I take up with these?
Tried the search function but resulted in ugrad resume talk and wso resume service promo etc...
Thanks for the advice.
If you're in the US, 1 page max. Always.
1 page.
I've been out ~6 years and held 4 different positions (2 within same company) and I'm still at a page. I think I'll always be a 1 pager. Show a few highlights of each position and leave the rest for interviews.
I think the general rule is 1 page unless you are a C-level exec.
Curious about this all well, if your president of a club in college or had a relevant inernahip, would you leave these on your resume several years down the road?? I'll be starting in ER and may want to transfer to IB in 2 years if I don't like it, what is standard procedure for experienced hires?
^ no
^Elaborate, I currently intern with an IBank and potentially may be 2 years out applying for an IB role after ER - would that not be relevant experience to include? Or is it once out of college, you start fresh.
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