1 pager vs 2 pager for resume
Hi, I have 10+ experience in strategy and ops. I was taught to have 1 pager resume back in my MBA years when I only had 4 years of experience. Now that I have more than 10+ years of experiwnce, not sure if 1 pager is still relevant. Also, I find the job market still super challenging at least for strategy and ops folks. Are you experiencing the same?
Every career coach I have had has told me to go to 2 pages with my YoE
Summarize achievements of last 5 years (or at least3 roles) in a one pager. Talk about big accomplishments, nobody will care what you did as junior software engineer 10 years ago unless you did something wild
Resumes can be more than 1 pg bit never more tha. 2 pgs. ATS requirements will likely push your resume to a second page and this requirement,coupled with your story that needs to be properly conveyed, necessitates a second page.
You don't write your resume more than 1 page unless you have Ph.D.
PhDs write their resume in half a page 🤪
Length doesn't matter, scanning matters. I have a resume that is 2.5 pages. If I played new grad games and increased margins and decreased fonts, it would be one and and half pages. But walls of text are unreadable. And my resume is maximized for scanning, not information density. But the recruiter can easily see what I am all about in a few seconds by just looking at the first page. Then, if they are interested, they can read further. And yes, it works. My callback rate is about 60% when I submit my resume blindly through a website (not through a referral, but through the standard application process where most people consider a black hole).
Ideally 1 page, but 2 pages is fine if needed
DM for SAP and anyone else for a referral!
Even if you have 20 YoE, nobody is reading beyond the first page.