You don’t have to make it one page.” However, there are some guidelines to follow here: I had far too many valuable experiences to just cut them out, even if they all weren’t completely “relevant” to the job I was applying for – which I’ll cover later. But when looking at my resume, that was clearly unrealistic. This was one of the things she told me to do – only make it one page. In fact, my last semester before I graduated I was applying for a job and asked an instructor for her input on my already stellar resume (I thought so, anyways). I cannot count the times I was told this in school, even college. And sadly, students in high school and universities are learning this still. There is a common thought out there that your resume shouldn’t extend one page, unless you are something special. This is because most just scan through the body of the resume. The primary reason being that if you submit your resume online to a transposing database, the header and footer are likely to be missed in the scanning for key words and phrases. As tempting as it may be, don’t place your contact information (or anything really) in the header or footer. Perhaps it was even in an email signature or something and you have it somewhere, but you are likely to not put much effort if they can’t even do that much. Second, you might not have the time or even care to try to find their contact information. If you were an employer looking through vast amounts, or even just a few resumes and you stumbled upon one that “wowed” you, but included no contact information, what would you think? What would you do? First off, a thought might occur that they aren’t attentive to details enough to even remember to include it. The most important part of your resume is your contact information. What would you consider the most important part of a resume? Your education? Skillset? Experience? Vast knowledge in a specific area? In my opinion, all of those are great, but none of them are the most important aspect of your resume.
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