how to Shorten my Curriculum Vitae?

A standard resume is one page unless you have years of experience; however, you do not list employment that is older than 10 years due to technology advances which make the skills required back then obsolte or any volunteer work that does not add value to the position you are applying.

Once upon a time, someone came up with a "rule" that resumes should not exceed one page. No one really knows who came up with the rule, but a great many job-seekers still seem to live in fear of this supposed edict. The fact is that very few "rules" exist today in the world of resume writing. Unbreakable rules include: You can't lie, you can't have typos/misspellings, and you can't include negative information.

Just about every other rule you've ever heard about resumes, however, is breakable, including rules about how many pages your resume,

Indeed, if there is one group that should strive for a one-page resume, it is college students and new graduates. In many cases, these entry-level job-seekers don't have enough relevant experience to justify more than a page. Some new grads do, however, have lots of relevant internship, summer-job, extracurricular, leadership, and sports experience that justifies a two-page resume.

Pierce-Williams takes an unusual approach to new-grad resumes. "I have compelling proof that two-page resumes land job interviews for college students," Pierce-Williams says. "Length depends on extra-curricular involvement and leadership. It takes a certain 'go-getter'-type student for a two-page resume."

Pierce-Williams designs college-student resumes in which page one "often looks like a 'regular' resume, but page two is entitled 'Key Leadership and Project Management' or simply 'Key Leadership.'" Pierce-Williams says she uses this page-two section to list three to four projects in which the student made a difference in an association or sorority/fraternity.

Don't sacrifice your resume's readability to make it conform to any arbitrary "rules" about resume length.

It's always pitiful when we have to whip out the magnifying class to read the tiny 8- or 9-point type on the resume of a job-seeker who has gone to absurd lengths to limit his or her resume to a certain number of pages. Don't discard readable type (we suggest no smaller than 10.5 point; 11 to 11.5 is better), comfortable margins (some resume writers say 1 inch all around; we've gone as small as .7"), space between lines, white space, and a pleasing, eye-attracting layout just to cram your resume onto X number of pages. "It's less taxing and time-consuming to read one and a half or two well-formatted pages than one page where everything's squished together," observes Gail Taylor of A Hire Power.

To further cut the "fat", ask yourself and act upon the following:

Does the resume contain information irrelevant to my next career move?

Are skills, knowledge, and abilities excessively repeated throughout the document?

Are there implied job skills I could eliminate without effecting the quality of the resume?

If you fall into the college-student/entry-level/new-grad group and are tempted to go to two pages, just be sure that you have the relevant material to justify a second page.