Here are two actual examples from resumes I received today: Your work history and specific accomplishments are what matters. I have seen good resumes that start with three pertinent bullets highlighting key experience, but unless you merit a two or three page resume, try to skip this. Your experience is what counts, not your interpretation. Nothing is more annoying than resumes that start with a half page or an entire page summarizing someone’s background and skills. Identify Your Background, not Your Skills and Strengths In spite of this habit overseas, it is a practice that is doomed in a world of impatient, ADD Type A’s who spend more and more time on the Internet. I have seen some resumes that creep onto a third page that are well written, but these are people with 20 or more years of experience.įour pages are uncalled for unless you are from a foreign country where the sheer weight of your resume is part of the Feng Shui and culture. It might take 15 years before we need to hear it all. After about ten years of experience, you might merit a second page. Most mortals can fit their background on one page. ![]() ![]() The three best ways to write a bad or a good resume: I thought this a good opportunity to get crabby about resumes in general. ![]() So, the primary problem is long resumes that put you to sleep. For this role, the problem is that marketing people can make anything look good, or more accurately: they can talk at length about anything, even if it’s irrelevant. Kicking off our search for a VP of Marketing this week made me ruminate about bad resumes.
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