Re: should a resume have a "Reason for Leaving" line? general res ume assessment request

On 6 Feb 2006, at 16:55, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:

> Interesting... I mostly read technical resumes and to tell you the  
> truth, I
> could care less about length and/or type size as long as the  
> information is
> relevant.

Yeah - me too (as long as I can read the darn thing). However, I  
usually find that there is a good correlation. If I have once CV  
that's two or three pages of legible text, and once CV that's 8 pages  
of 10pt text, nine times out of ten the former will be mostly  
relevant information and the latter will contain a bunch of stuff I  
don't care about and takes precious time to separate from the meat.

Let me put it another way. If I had more than three pages of 12pt  
text in my CV I'd be asking myself whether it was all relevant to the  
job. If it isn't then it shouldn't be there because it makes the job  
of the person reading it harder. The harder you make their job the  
closer it will be to the cut off point for moving on to interviews, etc.

[snip]
> I would suggest not putting this information into a cover page.  
> Cover pages
> have a tendency to get dislocated from the resume. Make the resume  
> count.
[snip]

Amen. With agents I often don't even see a covering letter.

Adrian