Professional Resume Advice and Sample ... - Career Services

If you’re a mid-career professional, manager, or executive, your resumewill most likely be two pages, and that’s fine. Your resume should bewritten to sell the highlights of your career, and if you’ve had four, five, ormore positions, it becomes almost impossible to fit it all onto one page.LIGHTBULB MOMENT:There is no advantage in removing valuableinformation to get your resume to fit onto onepage. In fact, you’re doing yourself a disserviceif you eliminate great experiences, achievements,activities, and contributions solely for the sakeof resume length.In today’s fast-paced society, it’s the rare resume that exceeds twopages. But it does happen. Consider the mid-level informationtechnology (IT) professional who manages the design, development,and implementation of new technology solutions and applications. He’sboth a manager and a hands-on technology expert with a wealth ofexperience across multiple platforms and scores of different softwareand applications, networks, operating systems, and Internet technologies– all of which are important to include on his resume.In addition, he works on a project-by-project basis, so he has numerous,significant projects to include. In this situation, a three-page resumemight be the right answer. Or, alternatively, a two-page resume and one-CHAPTER 2 : Strategy Tools for the Professional’s Resume41