I guess what I meant by "few people" was "few of the people that post for resume advice here on Ars.Preventing paper feed and paper jam problems At best, its not going to help you at all, and at worst it could negatively impact your chances if the recruiter thinks you just added a bunch of fluff. Trust me, I've seen a lot of college students with 2 page resumes, and to be honest about 95% of them had no business being two pages. Its only intended to be an overview, something to catch the recruiter's eye. Your resume should not be a deatiled description of what you've done. They're simply not going to sit down and carefully read every resume they get. The point being, recruiters get LOTS of resume's from students. Unless you're a PhD candidate (in which case you'll probably have more co-ops, more degrees to list, and likely some publications as well) you really should be able to keep it to one page.
I listed 4 items in my course work section for my undergrad degree, and that covers probably 10 classes that I took. IE: databases, Operating Systems, graphics, VLSI, etc. They just want to know what areas you've taken courses in. Recruiters dont know or care about exact course titles or specifics about what they covered. If you've taken 3 courses in databases, you dont need to list them all seperately.
You dont even need to list specific course names though. My research projects have their own area. I only list course names, but I have an extensive list of relevant courses. I wouldn't suggest adding more information than necessary just to get more buzzwords. They're just going to take your resume, scan it into a database, and do keyword searches on it.ġ-sided vs 2-sided, they said go 1-sided, since they might miss the second side, but if there's a staple, they'll know to scan that second page.Įdit: I had a significant work/volunteer history to list, so the difference of 1-page to 2-page was quite a bit of job responsibilities listing. What I was told by every recruiter was that their HR departments will almost universally want as much information as possible, particularly buzz words. I went home with no 2-pagers left, and almost all of my 1-pagers. I went to a carrer fair with a pile of 1-pagers with less info, and 2-pagers with more content (1-sided, stapled). I got the "no more than 1 page" advice from the carrer counselors, but heard conflicting advice from others. This was a major point of contention when I was looking for my first job out of college. Most of the time, if you've worked for a few companies then by listing these things will break the 1-page barrier and that's fine. For example if they've done FPGA or ASIC work, if they've worked with SERDES or implemented DDR interfaces, etc.
In my line of work (Hardware Design engineering) it's really nice to see people's past projects that they've worked on including technologies that they've used. The only thing that I'd change here is that there is nothing wrong with 2 pages if you have the information to fill it. If you're trying to decide on length, its pretty safe to say that you should always trim and not add. Up to here I completely agree with your advice.Īnd really, very few people need more than one page. Certianly no more than two pages under any circumstances though. If you've got 15 years of industry experience at 5 different comanies, you probably wont be able to fit all that on one page though. For recent college grads, there's really no reason for it to be over 1 page long.
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