Fuse Imports

A number of recruitment professionals prefer a one-page CV that is compact, clear, concise, and relevant to the job because of the sheer volume of CVs they receive and the time it takes to sort them. However, this is not a rule of thumb, and you cannot sacrifice your CV’s readability to make it conform to any arbitrary “rules” about CV length. As Grant Cooper, president of Strategic Resumes notes in the resume Critique Writer software that he authored: “Brief resumes are simply no longer effective in today’s increasingly competitive job market,” he said. “The advice that ‘They only want to see one-page resumes,’ is perhaps the single most outdated and incorrect statement job-seekers hear today.”Surveys show that employers who prefer a one-page CV are in the minority, and the situational view is prevalent, as Mark Gillespie, Certifi african mango ed Senior Account Manager, Management Recruiters/Sales Consultants of Arlington Heights says:I have no problem with a 2 or sometimes even 3 page CV, if the candidate’s background and accomplishments warrant it. When they try to cram too much on a 1 page CV they end up reducing the font size and if they fax it you can’t read it most of the time. Also for more seasoned or highly talented people there is no way they can give you a good idea of what they have done in just one page, they always end up leaving too much out and if the CV has no substance then I just toss it.As writer Susan Britton Whitcomb discovered while researching her popular book, Resume Magic (JIST Works): “I conducted a survey of HR managers from some of the Top 100 Companies to Work for (from the book of the same name by Levering and Moskowitz),” Whitcomb relates.