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Corporate Hiring Manager: what is the appropriate resume length?

I'm a corporate financial analyst. I saw a manager thumbing through resumes for a similar position and noticed they all were 2-3 pages. Feedback from online resume reviews stated my resume was "wordy," so I cut mine to one page. Am I sabotaging myself by being so brief?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    No, as long as you have included the things that set you apart from other candidates (highest level activities, unique projects, etc). Remember, you can also use condensed fonts, wider margins, smaller spaces to allow more information on your resume.

    Once you become a senior level staff member, you can have a two page resume, as long as you can completely fill both pages.

    If you aren't getting interviews, you need to re-evaluate your resume.

    Source(s): Fortune 500 HR consultant (20y experience) with Masters degree and multiple certifications. - have a 1 page resume that gets lots of attention.
  • 1 decade ago

    Alex

    I totally agree with Smiling. One page is the ideal length, but highly experienced professionals may need two pages. Never three. Decrease detail on older positions and focus on your contributions to the current company. It is also acceptable to put only the YEAR (1990-1996) and no months on resumes when you reach the professional level, and have many years of experience. That helps conceal gaps several months that sometimes occur when job hunting, or when you take a job but only keep it a couple months because it didn't work out and you prefer not to put that job on your resume. Some older workers leave off jobs older than 20 years ago, which needs to be weighed (age discrimination v. experience).

    Hope that helps.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    what ever you think of is honest,me i does not block somebody for no longer paying adequate interest to me,on the of probability their stay has have been given busy , yet once you ought to how approximately for the comparable era that he has surpassed over you

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