Re: Updating Resume?

[James Barrow <vrfour -at- earthlink -dot- net>]

Hmmm...I half-agree with this:^)

As of a few years ago, my resume was five pages long, and spanned 11 
years.  As you mention, my opening page received the most refining as I 
wrote an eye-catching objective, and a summary of skills that would 
have made an ad-man proud.  The first two jobs under Experience were 
also polished.  But recruiters and employers seemed to be a bit put off 
by the overall length of the resume - like simply seeing "Page 1 of 5" 
at the bottom of Microsoft Word was too much for them to bear.

I've since reduced my resume to just under two pages.  And trust me 
when I say 'just under.'  One more punctuation mark and I'm at three.  
I was able to reduce the length of my resume by bulleting all of the 
job duties for all of the positions that I've held.  Although this 
tactic still produced a four page resume, I was now able to use that to 
generate job-specific resumes.  For example, if I was responding to a 
job position that required documentation for SAP or PeopleSoft, I 
simply highlighted those tasks and deleted other non-specific tasks.  
This was easier for me than maintaining several versions of my resume.

- Jim

On Sep 15, 2004, at 6:17 AM, Lee Hunter wrote: