How many pages should your resume be?
Posted by
Bob Corlett on January 14, 2014
There you are, late one evening, rushing to update your resume so you can respond to a hot job opportunity. But the moment your fingers touch the keyboard, your brain serves up the question that bedevils every job seeker:
Should your resume be one page or two?
If you ask three people, you get four different answers. And when you query Google, it only gets worse. But you still need to send out that resume tonight, so the last thing you have time for is a philosophical debate. So if you are a typical professional working in an urban job market like Washington, use this rule of thumb...
Topics: How to Write a Resume
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