Which is why anyone still using a one page resume is shooting themselves in the foot.
Computer programs search through the text of resumes looking for keywords and phrases. It discards the resumes that don’t contain all the search keywords/phrases.
The solution? Keyword stuffing.
Use as many pages as you need (the more actually the better) and make sure your resume contains every keyword needed. If you are applying for a job, look at the job descritpion, and make sure every keyword/buzzword/technical-jargon used in the ad is somewhere in your resume. Even if you have to just tag it at the end under some heading like “Additional Skills”.
BTW, the other thing to remember is nobody prints out resumes anymore. The pull up a copy on a computer, which means the most important part of your resume is the top half of the first page. That’s all they can see on the computer screen, and if that doesn’t hook them they aren’t going to look at the rest of your resume.
Nodoby reads resumes anymore. They use a computer to filter resumes based on keyword, and GLANCE at the top half of the first page. If you’re looking for a job, those are the two areas you should concentrate on.
I got the Keyword Stuffing part down. It has to be within the first 500 words.
Thing is, it is all a query against the job description. Of course, the more keywords you have in there the better. However, and I think this is the original point, there are people that have 7,8,9 of the 10 keywords.
Companies are holding out for that resume with all 10. Then they complain.