this episode is brought to you by oscar technology look if you ask the duke oscar technology brings two distinct advantages to the servicenow ecosystem first their expert staffers specialize in a single tech and a single region so you can be sure you have somebody who's intimately aware of your tech needs and the local ecosystem second their servicenow recruiters must pass the certified servicenow system admin exam talk about putting your money where your mouth is on expertise reach out to louis beck or kayla rosetta for all your servicenow staffing needs their contact information is in the description below listen at the time where servicenow labor supply is finally catching up with the demand covid came and threw a giant wrench into everyone's plans this is the toughest job market service now has ever seen and this series is here to help winners up their game now let's talk about resume length i've been shocked this year at the absolute absurd lengths of the servicenow resumes i've been seeing and it's clear that most staffing agencies aren't coaching the market on best practices put yourself in the shoes of the person evaluating your resume if you're lucky you're competing against 5 to 10 people but likely even more the evaluator's full-time job is not evaluating resumes so they're gathering time wherever they can to do this that time is scarce because if they weren't super busy they wouldn't be hiring you in the first place sometimes decisions on who to interview and who not to interview come down to one single hour of resume review let me guarantee you something nobody reads the full resume if they can help it and the longest resumes always get tossed before they're read but i understand the motivation many people look at resumes as a power lifting competition if i can just stack more weight than my competitor i can win so you write pages and pages of item the incorrect assumption is that anyone is reading and keeping a weight score resumes are much more like boxing the first to land a powerful and precise shot has the advantage some people win with just one good punch so the name of the game isn't stacking weight is delivering power quickly i'm not saying it's easy and later in this series we'll talk about compressing content into powerful points but for now don't ever let your resume go over two pages start by realizing that you're not writing a biography but a highlight reel of your experience and accomplishments thus far going over two pages also risks exposing a critical flaw for servicenow resources being unable to tell a compelling story stay tuned for the next episode where we cover how to be interesting and once again thank you to oscar technologies for making this episode possible you