A good resume should ideally be one to two pages long. If your resume is three or more pages long you may want to consider briefing older or irrelevant work
experience. A reader’s attention span will start to lapse from the second page onward and shift from reading to scanning.
Good presentation and layout is critical to attract the reader’s attention and create a ‘tangible’ impression. Careful selection of fonts, highlights, borders
and bullet points can leave a powerful impression and give you a real advantage in winning an interview. Resumes laid out clearly and logically will sustain the reader’s attention and help guide the interview process.
The content of the resume should always be relevant to the position and the company’s needs whenever possible. Adequate but concise explanations of
responsibilities and achievements should be provided with more emphasis on recent work experience.
Resumes should be written in non personal format with appropriate and dynamic business language. All employment dates should be accurate and the resume should
be free of grammatical errors. A poorly written resume with spelling or grammatical errors will almost certainly leave an unfavorable impression with the
reader.
