Re: Lenght of resumes

On 12 Nov 2007, at 15:18, Jody Belka wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:45:54PM +0000, Adrian Howard wrote:
>> On 12 Nov 2007, at 14:42, Jos? Alves de Castro wrote:
>>> A quick question: what's the standard size for resumes in your
>>> countries?
>>
>> For the UK. I would say 1/2 page good. Three pages okay. More than
>> three pages go in the bin.
>>
>> But that's just me :-)
>
> I try never to go over 2 pages myself. Two pages means someone can
> have them in a folder and look at both side by side.

That's my preference too (my default CV is around 3/4 pages, but that  
gets selectively edited down to one/two pages for whatever job I'm  
applying for).

However, if I'm on the hiring side of the fence, I'll still look at 3  
page documents. It's the small books that get binned :-)

> Of course, this means that I keep having to go back over my CV and
> revise it to keep it within the limit. That is a "good thing".

Indeed.

Adrian