The honest rule is not a number. It is whether the right story comes off the page in a scan: the spacing, the titles, the KPIs, the impact.
The honest rule is not years or a page limit. A resume takes the pages its story needs: enough detail and facts to show your impact on the business, at spacing a reader can actually move through. The test is scanability: does the story come off the page in the first pass, carried by the spacing, the titles and scope, and the KPIs that prove the impact. Early careers usually tell that story on one page, because there is not two pages of real impact yet and padding reads as padding. Longer careers often earn two, because forcing the story onto one page means cutting the numbers or crushing the spacing, and both lose the read.
Either way the first page carries the whole first read: current title, the last two roles, the numbers.
If page one earns the turn, page two gets read. If it does not, page two never existed.
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