“Should my resume be 1 or 2 pages?”
There will always be exceptions, but most people should be able to keep their resume to a single page. If you have less than five years of professional experience or are a recent graduate, then there’s absolutely no excuse for it to be any longer.
Remember that people are inherently lazy: no one wants to spend their days reading through to the third page of your resume. By that point it’s probably acquainted itself with the trash bin. A resume doesn’t need to list your life story – it’s not a C.V., you don’t need to list everything; skipping mundane details makes you look better. We promise.
Your resume is meant to highlight your professional and academic accomplishments while giving your employer an idea of what you’ve been up to. That’s it. When you mash together a bunch of stale, boring job descriptions with impressive high-level accomplishments, it entirely devalues them. If you stick to a briefer resume that focuses on only your A+ material, you can be positive that your A+ material is the stuff being read.
