You don't read resumes in a pile you scan them, looking for things that stand out. You quickly scan the job titles and the technologies used. As the pile decreases the reading increases until you're down to about ten or twenty. At that point if you only have one page it's because it's an entry level position or they've worked at the same job for a long time. Otherwise, toss it because I don't want to call twenty people and ask them things I should already know. When it's down to three or five I make the calls. If your wife is throwing away resumes because they're too informative than she's not doing a very good job.
I thought you said your wife was an accountant? On 1/18/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sam wrote: > > Part of my severance package a few years back was a month at one of > > NYC's top career builder firms. > > Both my wife and I work at Fortune 50 corporations and work close with > HR on a daily basis and that's where my advice comes from. Everyone > has their own style so I don't think there's any "one size fits all" > advice. I'm just pointing out how I hire and how everyone I know > hires. > > My wife has the real experience: she likes to job hop "exec" positions > and has a new one about every year to 18 months and she's in line with > what I wrote. Further, part of her job is almost always exec > recruiting. For a few months every year she will weekly bring home > 100s of resumes which she sorts into "no" and "maybe" piles. > > If you have 100 resumes to get through by morning which would you > prefer: 2 pages or 1? > > A good CV to my eye looks like this: > > * contact info > * objective > * work experience > * school > * special things (volunteer work, certs, industry groups, etc) > > (maybe school last if you want to emphasize your experience) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225069 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
