<p>heard conflicting things, well?</p>
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<p>Unless you have years and years of significant work experience (and even then, professionals often try to keep their resumes/cvs to one page), I would recommend one page.</p>
<p>One if possible. If you really have a lot of experience, make sure that the important things are on the first page. This may mean you don’t do this a strict chronology, but that you list “Key accomplishments” or “Skills” on first page.</p>
<p>I used to be a hiring manager, and when times were tough, we’d get 100-200 resumes for one job position. So the reality is that I’d be “skimming” those resumes looking for things that made it clear to me that this person had some attribute or skill that was relevant to to the job. </p>
<p>So make your resume very clear, get the key points in the top half of the first page. There are plenty of good resources on the Internet about writing resumes, or books available at library/career center. Get some ideas from them.</p>
<p>I’ve been practicing for 22 years, and have a resume only slightly over a page in length. It landed me a job with a start-up early last year, and with a Fortune 1000 company later in the year when the start-up didn’t work out.</p>
<p>I had a “key accomplishments” section, then a reverse chronological listing of my seven (then eight) employers. The first thing I do after getting a new job is to update the resume; now it has nine employers.</p>
<p>Yes, that’s an average of 2.75 years per employer before I arrived here. That’s probably about average here in Silicon Valley.</p>