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Charles, "How many times should I take the ACT or SAT?" Good question. I get this a lot, and I know we get this in the office,

at college fairs, and when students and parents call us. I think it's really up

to the student. Generally speaking, if you're able to I think taking it, you

know, multiple times is fine. But typically, we do see students

improve slightly if they take it a second time. But we very rarely see huge

differences in scores, and I've seen students who have taken it—let's just

say quite a few times. At some point it's probably not worth it to take

it, you know, five, six, seven times. But I think twice is fine. If you want to take

it, three times? Great. But many students apply and get admitted with only

taking it once, so it's really an individual decision. How satisfied are

you with your score? But I'd say the average is probably two.

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How Many Pages Should My Executive Resume Be? - Duration: 2:58.

- Hey, guys, it's Olivia Gamber and Kevin Kermes

with Career Attraction.

Today we wanna talk about the biggest question we get

over and over again about the resume,

and that is how many pages is it,

how many pages should it be?

Especially if you've got 20 plus years of experience,

it's so hard to get that down and compacted.

So today we wanted to answer the question

and just be direct about what our perspective is.

- Yeah, so we arrive at this point.

20, 25, 30 years experience.

You're trying to capture everything,

and it's hard to make it concise.

So I wanna lead with an overall strategy,

which is be like Hemingway.

If you've gone through some of our other training,

you know that we talk about this a lot.

Do more with less.

So, keep paring that down.

The target should be around two pages,

but don't let that be the tail that wags the dog.

Here's the big thing.

Number one, make sure that you are being

as concise as possible and constantly going through

and saying, "So what?

"So why does this matter?

"Why is this important to put in there?"

A lot of times we include things

that we feel good about and we're proud about,

but in terms of our next evolution

as far as our career is concerned,

it's not really all that important.

So think about the audience.

What's keeping the audience up at night?

What's standing between them and a promotion?

What's standing between them and success in their role?

And the other thing I'll share

with you is kinda the psychology

behind reading through one of these resumes,

and it goes back to The Paradox of Choice

from psychologist Barry Schwartz.

And what happens is we like to have choices.

We like to be able to select some of the information

that we're looking at.

But you reach a point.

You reach a point very quickly

when there are too many choices,

there's not a tight message,

there are too many things that we have to decide amongst.

Think about when you go to a tapas restaurant, right?

(laughs) And you get frustrated,

so you're gonna push that document to the side.

So whether somebody's looking at it on their computer

or whether physically have it in front of them,

the message has to be tight.

You start getting into three, four, five pages,

you're gonna lose your audience.

- Yeah, the only thing I'll add to that is just to recap,

if you take nothing else away from this video,

the more you add and try to be everything to everyone,

the more your message gets diluted

and people don't remember it.

So, again, get really clear on what you want.

And anything that's not relevant

or supporting that message, remove it.

- Yeah, great point.

So we dive into this even more

in the download you can grab below,

which is our Executive Resume Guide.

Plus we have templates in there.

The templates, you're gonna see how this is laid out,

how it's done, even in the C suite

how you can condense this down to a couple pages.

So grab that below.

Like with everything else, just like our bestselling book,

we don't charge for information, folks.

We're here to help you from a consultative standpoint.

But grab that if you wanna measure up your resume

and make sure that it's super tight

and headed in the right direction.