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If all your contract work is essentially similar in nature, summarize
your services and achievements for all clients as if they are a single
employer (or better yet, devise a name for your contracting business
and list it as your employer), then provide a list of clients as part of
the details.
Most people viewing a resume start to zone out after the second
page, and hardly anyone is going to be interested in what you were
doing more than 10 years ago (there will be occaisional exceptions
to this, of course). What I did when I was looking was to create
my "complete" resume (about five pages long), then define categories
for each type of work I might be looking for and ruthlessly delete the
least effective three pages worth of material to create a two-page
resume tailored to suit each category.
How does one go about updating a resume after one has started
contracting after a long career as a full time employee without having
the resume turn into resume Godzilla and be about 4 plus pages long? I
don't plan on going back to full time (at least while I am in grad
school)and I anticipate I will be working many short term jobs over the
next 2-3 years. Should one include contractor experience in the original
resume or should I start another new resume that is devoted exclusively
to contracting?
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