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I agree with everything you've written, especially with ending sentence in parenthesis, because that was my point. Most hiring managers have excuses rather than criteria because excuses are more effective in filtering list of candidates and making their jobs easier.
If you establish rock-solid criteria and stick to it, you need to go through extensive testing - is person illiterate, or English is his second language? Or as you illustrated - is resume tailored to an ad or guy is actually perfect fit?
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Sean Cundiff wrote: any resume longer than 1 page -> trash bin.
This seems pretty stupid to me. Throwing away candidates because their resumé are longer than one page might just miss you the opportunity to hire a great employee.
I'd say it shouldn't matter the number of pages a resume has. It should matter what's on the first page. If you like what you see on the first page you might keep reading or not. If you don't care about the rest, no problem, but shouldn't be a reason disqualify a candidate
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When you only have time to read 10 of the 100 resumes you got for a job opening arbitrary rules for tossing large numbers of them are inevitable.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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Maybe in that case, but not as a general rule.
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Mine is eight pages - a result of having 30 years of experience in the business. BTW, this doesn't include any job I've had that is not directly related to programming with the exception of my stint in the Navy. My list of skills is two pages long.
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
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Like a woman's skirt - short enough to be interesting, long enough to cover the subject...
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Jim Crafton wrote: a woman's skirt
That is another form of resume. 
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Your mind is in the gutter, that's a certainty, but I agree with the sentiment 
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Yes, well thankfully I have company in the gutter!
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I can't remember who said it originally but it seems to me that "You might be in the gutter, but you are looking up at the stars."
Incidentally star is not a euphemism.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Steve Martin: "I believe a woman should be put up on a pedestal. Just high enough so you can see up her skirt!"
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Or,in the case of a Mother-in-Law, just high enough for you to be able to kiss her ass.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Aaaah, I had to jab myself in the eye with a pen to get the image out of my mind!
(I haven't seen my mother-in-law in at least five years and its still not long enough.)
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Joe Woodbury wrote: I had to jab myself in the eye with a pen to get the image out of my mind!
You must have jabbed pretty deep!
Joe Woodbury wrote: its still not long enough
Oh, I guess not.
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Thanks.
I could have looked it up, but couldn't be bothered.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I was in dilemma should I include link ('cause no one will later believe me I knew who said that)... but what the heck
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Gutter? Better minds than skirts.
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LOL.
Damn, I needed a good laugh today, and that was it.
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It depends...if you have 25 years of diversified experience, then a two pager is perfectly acceptable. If you are right out of college and you submit a two pager, then you are probably better suited to write fiction.
Gary Kirkham
Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit
It's against my relationship to have a religion.
Me blog, You read
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Gary Kirkham wrote: It depends...
Which is what I always thought and have submitted. Now I'm beginning to wonder, given the current economic climate and number of applicants, does one submit a one-page "teaser" resume then once you get in front of the hiring manager - present the "full-deal" resume.
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Don Burton wrote: given the current economic climate and number of applicants, does one submit a one-page "teaser" resume then once you get in front of the hiring manager - present the "full-deal" resume.
A resume is the teaser. A lot of people incorrectly think that a resume gets you a job. It doesn't; the whole point of a resume is to get you to the interview stage. Put too much info. and you wind up giving the hiring people unnecessary information that can (and will) be used to rule you out for the job. Give 'em just enough to go "hmm, this one looks promising - we'll need to find out more."
Definitely bring more ammo. to the interview, but keep the resume short and intriguing.
Cheers,
Drew.
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2 pages maximum; the further you are from school, the less school you need to put in.
List jobs and projects with 1, 2 sentences description for each; leave out the long useless list of known languages and technologies.
And please LEAVE OUT hobbies and all that junk. unless you won a really IMPORTANT prize in something, we don't care.
skip the "bling" page layout.
M.
Watched code never compiles.
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Maximilien wrote: leave out the long useless list of known languages and technologies.
But put in some list right at the top. It's annoying to get a resume and find that the person hasn't listed a programming language or platform anywhere on it. Yes, I've seen that.
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