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

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

It's not about importance, it's about hitting all the marks required to back up your answers on the KSAs, anyone who has successfully navigated the federal hiring system knows this.

If it were any other administration I'd say it was a great idea and long past due, but with the Trump administration you can be assured that they are not doing this in good faith and I have zero reason to believe there is any motive behind this other than making it easier to hire completely unqualified loyalists whose actual job functions will be to sabotage and destroy the very institutions hiring them.

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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

They only list work-related publications. Scientists are expected to have 1-2 pages of them.

[Anonymous]

Like most of the stupidity in federal hiring, the 15-page fed resume was only necessary because of veterans preference blocking qualified candidates from getting referred.

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Anonymous wrote:Like most of the stupidity in federal hiring, the 15-page fed resume was only necessary because of veterans preference blocking qualified candidates from getting referred.

Now most of us, even veterans, don't work to work for the federal government unless desperate for a job.

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Selected publications. Then put ones with most cites and in T5 journals. Link to Google Scholar.