On 6 Feb 2006, at 16:55, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote:
Interesting... I mostly read technical resumes and to tell you the
truth, I
could care less about length and/or type size as long as the
information is
relevant.
Yeah - me too (as long as I can read the darn thing). However, I
usually find that there is a good correlation. If I have once CV
that's two or three pages of legible text, and once CV that's 8 pages
of 10pt text, nine times out of ten the former will be mostly
relevant information and the latter will contain a bunch of stuff I
don't care about and takes precious time to separate from the meat.
Let me put it another way. If I had more than three pages of 12pt
text in my CV I'd be asking myself whether it was all relevant to the
job. If it isn't then it shouldn't be there because it makes the job
of the person reading it harder. The harder you make their job the
closer it will be to the cut off point for moving on to interviews, etc.
[snip]
I would suggest not putting this information into a cover page.
Cover pages
have a tendency to get dislocated from the resume. Make the resume
count.
[snip]
Amen. With agents I often don't even see a covering letter.
Adrian
