When you’ve reached the executive level, you’ve probably had a career full of successful accomplishments. However, it’s not uncommon for your massive list to not translate well on the resume, leaving it too short.

As an executive, you want to make sure that your resume fully represents what you’ve managed to accomplish over the years. So if yours isn’t long enough, here are some tips to help you stretch it out.

Tell Your Story

One way that you can stretch out your mini executive resume is to tell a story. While many resumes are typically thought of as dry documents (and cover letters are meant for storytelling), there are ways to sneak a story into yours. This is especially true for executive resumes for the same rules don’t apply as for career levels.

There are a number of ways to tell your story, including defining who you are and what you want to accomplish in your executive profile, which replaces the objective/summary of qualifications. Keep your stories to only a few sentences, and make sure that they deal with your responsibilities and accomplishments in an entertaining and engaging way.

Include Every Detail

One habit that most workers get into early in their careers that seems to be hard to get out of is thoroughly keeping track of accomplishments every step of the way. Most times we’re too busy working to even notice what we’ve done. Later, we lose information about a certain accomplishment, as it’s difficult to reconstruct something from memory alone after a long period of time.

The only problem with this “non-strategy” of recordkeeping is that when it comes time to include these events in a resume, all of the details are all but lost. So we end up including basic descriptions instead of describing each event as it truly occurred. When trying to stretch out an executive resume, it’s much better to be drawing on real notes, as it makes it possible to add in verifiable facts that give legitimate strength and length to the document. So as mentioned in the previous section, it’s good to take time to think of who, what, when, where, why and how it was necessary to accomplish this great feat.

Try to Avoid Half Pages

That nagging half page can be a major annoyance when working on your resume. It seems that just when you’re putting the last few bits of information in the document, an entire section shifts to a new page, leaving you with a partial page to deal with. This means you either have to subtract information, or add new details.

In a concise executive resume, this isn’t easy to do. By employing some old tricks like changing the font size by half points and experimenting with different margins, though, you’ll be able to get rid of that half page. Also you can change the font style as long as it’s still professional. A consistent font is extremely important, so pay attention to the aesthetics of the resume.

Every little thing counts when you’re creating your resume, and length is no exception. While you’re spending time updating and making little resume changes, don’t ignore the resume’s length or you’ll be missing a great opportunity.

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