Elon Musk's resume proves you never need to use more than one page

Let's say you are Elon Musk, one of the most inf luential entrepreneurs in tech history whose career spans two decades of successful startups.

Let's also say your accomplishments range from creating an electronic payments industry to invigorating the solar energy market to inventing high-performance electric cars to launching a commercial space and rocket industry. All of that would surely need a couple of pages to explain on a resume, right?

Not necessarily, say the experts at online resume-writing firm Novoresume, who attempt to propagate the less-is-more concept for writing resumes.

To make their point, they created a sample resume for Musk to prove that "even a highly successful career like his can be presented in a one page resume," as co-founder Andrei Kurtuy puts it.



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Now, there are a few tongue-incheek elements to this resume that you may not want to incorporate in your own resume, unless done very smartly. For instance, in a list of "Skills and competencies", one of his skills listed is "micromanaging".

Musk is famous for his high standards, and he has a reputation as a tough guy to work for. He once described himself as a "nano-manager", a play on words meaning he's even more controlling than a micro-manager. "I have OCD on product-related issues. I only see what's wrong. I never see what's right. It's not a recipe for happiness," was how he explained his management style.

The mock resume also includes a four-level rating system in which some of the skills listed are rated at a full four bars. You might want to consider how you can adopt it without coming off as overconfident or a braggart.

Still, it does prove that with the right design, you never need more than one page for a resume.


Source: businessinsider



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