Starting on September 27, 2025, federal agencies will only accept resumes up to two pages in length.

[Anonymous]

https://help.usajobs.gov/faq/application/documents/resume/page-limit

They should find something else meaningful to do. They wanted us (my agency) to use their outlook signature template, now put their hands on fed resume....

The country has many other severe issues to be taken care of, not outlook signature block, not fed resume, ....

[Anonymous]

Look at Barack Obama’s LinkedIn profile it is pretty short. Over two pages is wasteful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at Barack Obama’s LinkedIn profile it is pretty short. Over two pages is wasteful

Agree. Longer than 2 pages is for academics only.

[Anonymous]

This is being done so that scientists and economists can't submit all of their publications. That way, serious, qualigied scientists can't be selected over toadies with few publications.

[Anonymous]

Very few people are important enough to have a resume over two pages

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is being done so that scientists and economists can't submit all of their publications. That way, serious, qualigied scientists can't be selected over toadies with few publications.

This. A typical science resume has 1-2 pages about the person, but one is expected to include a list of publications, which usually brings it up to 3-4 pages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is being done so that scientists and economists can't submit all of their publications. That way, serious, qualigied scientists can't be selected over toadies with few publications.

This. A typical science resume has 1-2 pages about the person, but one is expected to include a list of publications, which usually brings it up to 3-4 pages.

But it is only publications related to job thar matter. No me cares about your love poem that got published in Teen magazine when you were 14

[Anonymous]

I think it’s a good change. No need to list every detail of every job you ever had. And I am a scientist.

[Anonymous]

Federal resumes are long, in part, because of the USAJobs format. But we are also told to list everything. Prior to this page limit, some agencies would inform applicants that they would review only the first five pages of a resume. It should free up review time for HR and the hiring official.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look at Barack Obama’s LinkedIn profile it is pretty short. Over two pages is wasteful

Agree. Longer than 2 pages is for academics only.

+1

Or any position that requires you to list all publications.

[Anonymous]

As a resume reviewer SME in the federal gov, I often see 10-15 page resumes. I'd say the average is 5 pages. I have seen a 40 page resume. Feds pretty much had to do that to get past the bad USA jobs computers.

I hate pretty much everything about hiring. I personally wish we could do pre-screening calls because so many resumes are straight up lies. I'm in a very specialized area (hence why I'm called in to help review resumes) and everyone says they're an expert. Except very few people have worked in my job area, they just briefly touched upon it in a different job. I don't want essay questions, but I would like a short question and answer that candidates have to fill out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very few people are important enough to have a resume over two pages

It's because the AI screener looks for things like "works with technology" and if you don't have what computer programs you work with (like GIS software), you don't make it through. I think USA jobs is what needs the fix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Very few people are important enough to have a resume over two pages

This and the people who are filtering these resumes do not have the patience or intellect to review more than one page.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is being done so that scientists and economists can't submit all of their publications. That way, serious, qualigied scientists can't be selected over toadies with few publications.

I normally encourage short resumes, particularly for people under the age of 40, but if the above is true, that's really sad, and we'll lose out on a lot of smart researchers (although that is already happening with this administration's war on science).

[Anonymous]

This is a great idea