{"id":12878,"date":"2021-05-16T16:31:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T16:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/?p=12878"},"modified":"2022-09-01T15:33:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:33:28","slug":"resume-printed-on-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/resume-printed-on-both-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cShould I print my resume on both sides?\u201d \u2014 The Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you have a lot of professional experience, and thus you have a two-page resume. Impressive! The most economical and ecological thing to do would be to print on both sides of a single piece of paper… but is this a good idea? <\/span><\/p>\n

Resumes should never be printed double-sided. Employers should not have to flip over a page to see new information. Keeping two-page resume on two separate pages allows the employer to see all of the information they need at once. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Doesn’t it make more sense to print resumes double-sided?<\/b><\/h2>\n

While it may seem like you are doing your employer a favor by handing them a single piece of paper instead of two, it could also make things tedious. One-sided resumes are traditional and account for almost all resumes given to employers. If one resume is double-sided, an employer may think a page is missing. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Why don’t employers like double-sided resumes?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Employers are not used to needing to flip a resume upside-down, so it just makes yours look incomplete. It is possible they may think that you only sent half of your resume, which will likely disqualify you from the running.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It also makes it impossible for an employer to view all a person’s qualifications together. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is best if an employer can garner the employee’s skillset at a glance, and they cannot do this if they constantly need to flip over a paper. <\/span><\/p>\n

Keep in mind, it is not a bad thing to have a two page resume. <\/span><\/p>\n

This is especially true for those who have many years of experience, and many certifications or awards (such as <\/span>CFA<\/a><\/strong>, <\/span>magna cum laude<\/i><\/a><\/strong>, etc.). <\/span><\/p>\n

Employers want to get a broad sense of your experiences, so don’t be afraid to have a two page resume so long as it is all relevant and impressive information which you’re presenting.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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Can I staple my resume?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The rule is that you cannot have a double-sided resume, but can you staple the pages together? The consensus is no. This is because before disposal, documents containing personal information need to be shredded for confidentiality purposes. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Resumes that are stapled together must be manually unstapled, and this becomes quite tedious. <\/span><\/p>\n

Stapled pages also run the risk of one end of the staple sticking out and nicking a person’s hand.  Do yourself and your future employers a favor and give them unstapled pages. <\/span><\/p>\n

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How to avoid standing out (in a bad way)<\/b><\/h2>\n

Though these rules seem trivial, it is best that your resume does not stick out for the wrong reasons. <\/span><\/p>\n

Resumes follow many guidelines because they make it easier for an employer to sift through several hundred resumes quickly.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Properly listing dates<\/a><\/strong> or experiences such as <\/span>research jobs<\/a><\/strong>, using different types of <\/a><\/strong><\/span>abbreviations<\/strong>, even achievements such as making the <\/span>deans list<\/a><\/strong> all have rules in regards to their proper structure on a resume. <\/span><\/p>\n

The only part of a resume which should make you stand out is the experience and knowledge that you have. <\/span><\/p>\n

Stick to the classic resume structure rules, and never assume that an employer will not be a stickler for these things! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So you have a lot of professional experience, and thus you have a two-page resume. Impressive! The most economical and ecological thing to do would be to print on both sides of a single piece of paper… but is this a good idea?  Resumes should never be printed double-sided. Employers should not have to flip …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable-in-feed":false,"article-schema-type":"Article","disable-critical-css":false,"_convertkit_action_broadcast_export":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[521],"tags":[587],"class_list":["post-12878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resume-writing","tag-double-sided-resume"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12878"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12883,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878\/revisions\/12883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguaholic.com\/linguablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}