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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Business, Finance, and Careers > The Resume and Interview ULTRATHREAD: they saw Amazonian attributes
 
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Pilsner
Nov 23, 2002

Bisty Q. posted:

[*] Your resume should be 1 page. 2 pages if you have extensive experience. Recruiters spend less than 30 seconds reading it. Nobody's going to be mad if it is longer but nobody's going to read it either.
Mind if I challenge this statement? Not every company is Google and gets hundreds of thousands of applications to weed through. I'm certain the recruiter for a smaller or medium-sized company that might struggle to find good talent will spend a few minutes reading a resume at the very least. Recruiting is pretty serious business to many companies, so why would they immediately put a 2-page resume in the shredder just out of spite?

That being said, I still agree that it's a good idea to make it as short as possible. Go over it a few times and cut cut cut what you can.

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