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I am working in Tata Consultancy kolkata from past 3 years, planning to get transfer to TCS Bangalore(hometown). Will there be any issues if I provide fake medical certificate for my parents? Also now they are forcing me to come back to kolkata office, is there any possibly they may let me work from bangalore office even if my project ODC is not there in bangalore?
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2 pages are fine. 1-page is a very B'school approach. Most people should be able to summarize their pre-BSchool experience in 1 page. However - 2 conventions change about resume post b-school --> 1. Education moves down as the bottom most section (instead of top) and 2. You can extend your resume to 2 pages. This is not just personal experience, I used to interview people in my last job and 2-pages were the norm for people with significant experience. No interviewer wants to bring in a magnifying glass to the interview room and you might as well be more comprehensive rather than leaving out important details
1 page. Always
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I page. Drop silly things such as I was a TA in college. I just went through the same process with eight years of experience. Drop a few bullets from your first job.
1 page. You gonna succinctly summarize your how-many-years of experience. It's called a résumé and not a CV for a reason
I had one page and recently wanted to update my resume and was wondering what the professionals would provide. The output was a 2 page resume.
Ok that seems excessive
I never read beyond one page of a resume. If not intrigued after the first page, you aren't going to wow me on 2 (or 4. Dear god D3)
I guess I'm a hard liner. Who cares what you did from 1996-2001? Can't you summarize that in a few words by now?
Still just one page. Otherwise tl;dr. I have tried to ger around it by adding an optional addendum with a bit more detail by project (2-3 pages) but resume is strictly 1 and ideally not too overwhelmingly dense
My friend in HR says 2 pages is fine
Somewhat unrelated, need margins strictly be 1" or can it be stretched?
I have five years exp and my resume is 4 pages lol I put all my projects
So no general consensus it seems. I personally feel like two pages would be a drag and at that point I would have to go into details about every project I have worked on. Would an HR person really have the time or interest in reading my entire life history given the number of resumes they look at on a daily basis?
OP, same boat here and about to start applying. What is your salary?
Have seen many resumes for our experienced hires. 2-pp pretty normal. Only those coming from B-school tend to be a polished single page. Over 2 and I don't read. Most detail from current employer. Bullets. Parallel. Short summary statement for previous employers. Just schools and grad years, major for Ed section.
Most reviewers form a judgement about your resume within a few seconds. Keep it to 1 page
If an executive can make a multi-million dollar business decision on the basis of a one-page exec summary, one page should suffice for a resume regardless of years of experience
No one reads below the top half of the first page unless the font is huge
Here's another approach (and more support for 2 page 😋): drag your education to next page but summarize your work experience and project details in the first page. The interviewer will have to go to the second page to check what school you went to but will gather complete set of your skills from the first page itself. A healthy fusion !
The above is for the benefit of those like me - i had 2 jobs pre-MBA. 1 internship. 2 jobs post MBA and a couple of promotions. I found it exceedingly difficult to show case my responsibilities switch pre and post promotions. The content would invariably spill to 2. So I just moved education to the second page.