A company I work for is taking resumes, and having just put in a resume myself to see if I could get a great position at another place, the topic of number of pages came up. I did a great amount of research on this when I made my resume, and decided that while one page was fine there was no reason that I couldn’t attach 10 pages of skills that I had acquired throughout the years.

Besides asking people who go through hundreds of resumes, I highly suggest you go through this material before you take outdated advice that more than one page is taboo:

Debunking common myths

Resume Myths You must Avoid

The Top 7 Resume Myths

All of this advice was verified by multiple sources, that do current hiring. One place wouldn’t even look at the one pages, since they needed skills, education and references that couldn’t fit on one page.

All you potential job seekers, take heed:

If an ad says “must hand/snail/email” do it.
I’ve asked over 30 professional resume makers, agencies, and HR departments in response to a recent event where a job seeker ignored the requirement. In only 5 hours, the verdicts are in:

Only one said they’d still take the resume, 3 said (in response to my query) that there is no plausible reason to accept one, and 5 stated that job qualifications is not a requirement, but an edict on how to submit is, so do it.

I’ve got to admit, resume and HR departments are fast when it comes to describing their work. All the people I polled not personal friends with at least 5 years hiring practice were webmasters/writers or professional resume agencies that easily come up in the first 100 results of a google search for resume services. Several were local organizations that employ over 100 people, and saw it as not being able to follow a simple rule.

All polled said that if the requirement was to snail mail them, and they hand delivered it, they’d throw them away.