Matthew Mulcahy’s Post

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And we get a lot of questions from candidates about resume link like what's the standard these days? What's too long? Should I still keep my resume to one page and I don't believe in the one page resume anymore. You know, we're not handing people physical resumes in person. All of our applications are going out on the Internet. So no, no real reason to have a one page resume or constrain yourself to to that unless you're going to a career fair or you want to have. A1 page version of your resume. That's kind of like all of your qualifications and experience at a glance when you're at a in person interview, but the the days of the one page Max are over. But here, what do you think about? Like the the opposite side of that? Like is there such thing as too long of a resume? Yeah, I definitely have seen page or resumes where they've been 8 pages, 7 pages long and that's a little bit unnecessary because you know that no one's going to take the time to look through A7 page resume. I think there's a way that you can make your resume concise and bullet pointed so that I can get the point across on the major impacts that you've had in your role, but not to a point where you're writing paragraphs as your bullet points or long extensive explanations. I think that's what the interviews for, as long as you can highlight the. The metrics and and the main points that will stand out, I think that's what's most important. I know you've also seen some crazy lengths and resumes, but like you mentioned, if it goes over a page that's not a big deal. No one's going to not interview you because of it. I think that if there's things that need to be included that will take you over a page that it's necessary to do because it is, it is your next role and you want to be able to showcase everything that you've done that's relevant. So yeah, you have anything else going to add to that? Sure. I would just say like some of those longer 567 page resumes I see are like people that have been done consulting their entire career and they want to highlight every single project. What I would say also to to those people that might have a really long resume is like the the stuff at the top better be really relevant and eye-catching because like you said like. Recruiters aren't going to hiring. Managers aren't going to scroll all the way down to the bottom. You know that. You got to. You got to catch their attention.