Thoughts on having a resume longer than 1 page coming out of undergrad?
I'm currently in a huge predicament with my resume as I am constantly seeing people suggest limiting your resume to only 1 page. I'll be graduating this upcoming Fall from undergrad with 5-6 internships and a boat load of leadership experience, which in turn has been making it impossible for me to accurately portray my experience to 1 page. I was recently recommended several resume writers by an IB recruiter in order to polish up my content.
- Does anyone have any experience working with a resume writer? If so, how much should I be looking to spend?
Any advice/feedback would be extremely helpful
You don't need a resume writer, those are for experienced professionals developing a CV. Start removing the least relevant content first and work your way up until you're at 1 page in length.
Don't read this maliciously but if you're having issues trimming down your resume you're in for a hell of time when you get on the job, this is easy street. It's tempting to want to make sure you have every angle covered but quality > quantity - there is no way everything you have included currently is necessary in order to seal your personal pitch.
Welp, I guess I should have stated this earlier, but my current resume is technically one page but with size 8 font... I typically save it as a PDF and send it out that way so it doesn't appear as small as it would in Word. What's an ideal font size/margin?
Size 11 with 1 inch margins on all sides. Resume over 1 page is a dealbreaker.
Cut your internships down to 3 (preferably most recent 3, but keep an older one over a newer one if the experience is much more IB-relevant) and condense your leadership. Combine lines for leadership if you have to, emphasize the impressive ones and double up the lines/delete less impressive or older ones.
What are your sections titled and what info do you have in them?
I currently have Educational info, Work Experience, and Leadership. It's formatted similar to the one on M&I.
That sounds fine. If you can fit it all on one page with size 8 it'll probably fit with size 11 if you delete a few less relevant jobs
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