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TIL my resume got more callbacks after I cut it from 2 pages to 1, and the fix wasn't what the blogs say
Everyone told me the 2 page resume was fine if the experience was real, so I ran that for about 8 months and got 3 callbacks out of maybe 60 applications. In January I chopped it down to one page, not by cutting jobs but by dropping the skill list and the summary paragraph at the top, and I got 4 callbacks in the first 3 weeks, plus 2 phone screens with recruiters in Denver. I think the real thing that changed was that I stopped making people hunt for the last job title, because now the top third of the page is just my current role and 3 bullets with numbers in them. I still don't fully buy the one page rule for everyone, my buddy has 15 years in civil work and needs 2 pages, but for someone 6 years in I think the skill list was just pushing my actual work down past the fold. Curious if anyone here has tried cutting a section like that and actually measured what came back, or if I'm reading way too much into 4 emails.
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