It probably depends on the type of job you’re looking for.
In school I was taught to make my resume fit on a single page. As far as I can tell, this is nonsense. In my professional life have never seen a resume that was less than two pages. Mine is several pages.
The point of a resume is (a) to give the company a broad first-pass sense of whether you’re qualified and (b) to provide a scaffolding of prior knowledge about you around which to conduct an interview. Constructing your resume with the point in mind may simplify things.
I would personally avoid going out of my way to broadcast uniqueness or quirkiness. But I suppose it depends on what exactly you mean. If you hold the world record for pogo stick jumps, that would be something interesting to put on there, partly because that’s the kind of thing that connotes ambition and dedication. If you are an ardent fan of some obscure fantasy series, that’s not something that’s going to conceivably help you get a job.
Thanks for the information. I saw the one-page-sheet recommendation in a lot of places, but this didn’t match up with actual CVs I’ve seen on people’s pages. Clearing that up is helpful.
The general point to keep in mind is also helpful.
I saw the one-page-sheet recommendation in a lot of places, but this didn’t match up with actual CVs I’ve seen on people’s pages.
Expanding on this, acceptable & typical lengths for CVs seem to vary between sectors. My feeling is that 1-page CVs are a bit uncommon in business (though some people do make it work!), with CVs more often 2-4 pages long. But academic CVs are often a lot longer, and can be pretty much arbitrarily long. (I suspect highly eminent academics’ CVs tend shorter. Presumably they have less to prove.)
It probably depends on the type of job you’re looking for.
In school I was taught to make my resume fit on a single page. As far as I can tell, this is nonsense. In my professional life have never seen a resume that was less than two pages. Mine is several pages.
The point of a resume is (a) to give the company a broad first-pass sense of whether you’re qualified and (b) to provide a scaffolding of prior knowledge about you around which to conduct an interview. Constructing your resume with the point in mind may simplify things.
I would personally avoid going out of my way to broadcast uniqueness or quirkiness. But I suppose it depends on what exactly you mean. If you hold the world record for pogo stick jumps, that would be something interesting to put on there, partly because that’s the kind of thing that connotes ambition and dedication. If you are an ardent fan of some obscure fantasy series, that’s not something that’s going to conceivably help you get a job.
Thanks for the information. I saw the one-page-sheet recommendation in a lot of places, but this didn’t match up with actual CVs I’ve seen on people’s pages. Clearing that up is helpful.
The general point to keep in mind is also helpful.
Expanding on this, acceptable & typical lengths for CVs seem to vary between sectors. My feeling is that 1-page CVs are a bit uncommon in business (though some people do make it work!), with CVs more often 2-4 pages long. But academic CVs are often a lot longer, and can be pretty much arbitrarily long. (I suspect highly eminent academics’ CVs tend shorter. Presumably they have less to prove.)