A resume is a brief summary of your skills, abilities, education, and experience. They are brief since hiring managers and recruiters receive so many and likely only scan them for a few seconds. As a result, your resume should be no longer than two pages. If you are new in the field and do not have much experience, you will likely want to keep your resume to one page.

If your content extends to a second page, take advantage of all the space on that second page, instead of just using a few lines.  If you don’t have enough content to warrant that, consider some formatting tricks to keep your resume to one page or reflect on other relevant information you could include to fill out the second page. Typically you will want the most important and relevant information on the first page in case the recruiter doesn’t read the second. Be sure to include your name and page number on the second page in case it is separated from the first.

For more tips on resume formatting, refer to the Resume Format section of the Career Center.