A resume should never exceed one page
This hill is unclaimed. Nobody is willing to die on it. Yet. First blood pending.
- Pay, and you hold it.
- Anyone can dethrone you for more.
- Every claim stays on the record.
No claims on the record.
The other side
The one-page rule comes from paper. Recruiters held stacks in their hands, and a second sheet got detached and lost in a filing cabinet. Software now parses the whole document and hiring managers scroll. A researcher with fifteen years of patents and shipped products, cutting to one page, deletes the exact line a manager was searching for. Length follows the record.
Tell me when this hill changes hands.
One email per change of hands. Unsubscribe link in every one.
Adjacent hills to die on
Results define your worth at work, not hours logged
Remote work killed mentorship and junior employees pay the price
Wanting work-life balance admits your job is meaningless
Most meetings are just status updates that should be emails
Productivity culture is a scam that manufactures more work
Office dress codes are class gatekeeping disguised as professionalism
More work hills, all of them, or find one worth $1 of your convictions.