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Originally posted by Ideal08
So, I'm trying to condense my resume (from 3pgs to 2pgs). Some of the advice I've gotten is to go from bullet points to paragraphs instead. So my question to all of you is this:
When describing your jobs, do you use bullet points, descriptive paragraphs, or both?
Right now, I have bullet points for all of my jobs. I would like to make at least some of them into paragraphs, but maybe keep the bullets for the two most recent postions. Whatcha think of that?
Also, let's do a poll:
How many pages is your resume?
How many years experience do you have on there?
When do you start to delete your earliest job from your resume?
Example: I graduated from college in '97. I still have on my resume the job I had directly after graduation. It's older than 5 years, but it also lists some good experience. Take it off or keep it? At what point do you get rid of jobs?
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Soror, I list the job and company in bold then list 2-3 bulleted items underneath for each job. The bulleted items all begin with an action word and I try to make them descriptive. They are one liners
Also, I have used objective statements before which can be helpful to quickly bring the reviewer up to speed on what position types you are interested in
My resume is 2 pages and I am told that that is ok if you have enough substantive information that is pertinent to the position that you are applying for (I have different resumes tailored to different types of positions so will not include all of the same info in both).
I think that the focus should probably be whether the experience is relevant as opposed to how old it is. If the skills that you obtained and the experiences that you had are relevant to the job that you are going for, I would say leave them on, no matter how long ago they happened.
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