How long should a CV be? There are no absolute rules but, in general, a new graduate's CV should cover no more than two sides of A4 paper. CVs in the US tend to be shorter than in the UK,
whereas the 2 page CV still dominates for graduates, but I do see a trend now towards
one page CVs: as employers are getting more and more CVs, they tend not to have the
time to read long documents!
If you can summarise your career history comfortably on a single side, this is fine
and has advantages when you are making speculative applications and need to put your-
self across concisely. However, you should not leave out important items, or crowd your
text too closely together in order to fit it onto that single side. Academic and technical
