Solved Fixing My Resume
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When it doubt, throw it out. Short and to the point. Hiring managers are generally only going to skim your resume.
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How goes the rewrite? How tight is it now? Approaching one page?
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@scottalanmiller said:
How goes the rewrite? How tight is it now? Approaching one page?
Still working on it. It's down to about two pages now...
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I really think that you can get down to one. It will be tight, but I think that you can.
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Also, getting down to one page will also make it very easy for you to justify why some things that you wish to busy are missing.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Also, getting down to one page will also make it very easy for you to justify why some things that you wish to busy are missing.
That's actually a pretty clever way to handle it...
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Yup, it makes gaps seem more logical too.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Yup, it makes gaps seem more logical too.
That's an incredibly simple but clever solution.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Also, getting down to one page will also make it very easy for you to justify why some things that you wish to busy are missing.
Getting it trimmed down to just one page can be difficult, but do able.
I think a concise 2 page resume is fine. Keep within 10 years when possible, limit extremely short term employments. I don't use an employment that lasted 3 months.. for me it wasn't practical.
Periods of time of 'unaccountability' can be used as personal development.
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You have to look at his specifically. I put it into Word and two pages is too long. A good rule is figure out how long it is and truncate to an integer.
e.g. 2.4 pages means 2
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Resume is just about down to one page...but I need help trimming the rest down. Here is the link:
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=76051035DEC258F!13055&authkey=!AOt7cUm9m3nMZ_k&ithint=file%2CdocxI have removed the address for my own privacy but let me know what I can do to get this down to one page. I've removed quite a bit as well.
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Document has been updated again. FYI
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My view shows a job segment breaking across a page... it needs to start on a new page. Also, to much white space... fill it out ore need to remove more. (sorry)
BTW - As part of my job responsibilities a few years ago, I worked with people daily who needed assistance with their resumes. I worked with a number of professional staffing agencies. This was something I did with about 200 people a year for seven years.
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@scottalanmiller said:
You have to look at his specifically. I put it into Word and two pages is too long. A good rule is figure out how long it is and truncate to an integer.
e.g. 2.4 pages means 2
Not a bad idea...
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And in his case, due to the type of content that he has, it needs to be a single page.
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I increased the font and now it's filling almost two pages...I don't know if I can do a single page but I can try...The NTG stuff...how can I trim that down?
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@thanksajdotcom said:
I increased the font and now it's filling almost two pages...I don't know if I can do a single page but I can try...The NTG stuff...how can I trim that down?
Increased the font to....?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksajdotcom said:
I increased the font and now it's filling almost two pages...I don't know if I can do a single page but I can try...The NTG stuff...how can I trim that down?
Increased the font to....?
Size 12 across the board.
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That font is too big looking at it and the margins too small. No white space for the eye. Stick to standard good design principles when possible.
Take it down to 11 if necessary. And look at Cambria.
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Made some of the changes @scottalanmiller suggested. Keep the ideas coming!
