One-Page "Rule" is Breakable

Very few “rules” exist today in the world of resume writing.

Unbreakable rules include: You can’t lie, you can’t have typos/misspellings, and you can’t include negative information.

Just about every other rule you’ve ever heard about resumes, however, is breakable, including rules about how many pages your resume should comprise.

Times have changed, after all, as Grant Cooper, president of Strategic Resumes, notes in the Resume Critique Writer software that he authored. “Brief resumes are simply no longer effective in today’s increasingly competitive job market,” he said. “The advice that ‘They only want to see one-page resumes,’ is perhaps the single most outdated and incorrect statement job-seekers hear today.”