At the start of my search, I tried to keep my 18 years of data science experience to one page. This was advice from a product manager, which was to keep it simple short and digestible. This made sense to me and I trimmed a lot of projects and even a short term jobs off the resume entirely to fit a nicely package one-pager.
Anyone who has applied and never reached an interview or offer can agree that getting feedback is very difficult. One recruiter did offer advice: the potential employer expects resumes to be 2+ pages.
The tech world is changing faster than ever. My question is, what is right? I expanded my resume to two pages and it has given my search some traction. Obviously this will be different for each hiring manager and role.
Should I be creating a new resume for each role I apply to? If so, what are some techniques to figure out what the hiring manager might be looking for?
I dont personally care for a multi page cv. I have enough to read as it is and often need to review 30 pre qualified candidates for a position. I would rather see tags matching my requirements than page 2.
Overall I'm looking for grounding in fundamentals and demonstrated growth. I dont care what high school or university you went to or your GPA. If you are going to mention a hobbie it needs to be something unusual that might spark a conversation. I'm not interested if your hobbie is hiking for example.
Unless the position is short term I'm more interested in knowing you can adapt and learn and grow and look for those qualities in your cv. I might care about specific frameworks and platform and version if the position to fill is short term.
If you feel you must mention shorter contractual work, try to cluser them in some way. I'm not interested in a laundry list of here is what I did for client n.
Best of luck with your search. With your years of experience I imagine you will find a job sooner rather than later.
What is the hiring manager looking for? An answer to, "Can this person do the job? If so, do we want to interview them?"