>Sorry, one page won’t work for most people unless you are directly out of school. 1-2 page for many, but 3-4 or more may be necessary. Depends on the skills, your job history, and what is needed to share your story. And the applicant scoring programs won’t penalize you for length, but keep in mind that the first page must give enough interest-grabbing detail for the human to look at the subsequent pages.
The problem is that HR professionals take maybe 10 seconds to read your resume and, guess what, if it has a staple or paper clip in it, it’s probably going in the trash.
The best thing you can do is (1) precall and get a NAME to send the resume to directly, (2) talk to that person before you send the resume, and (3) email the person afterwards.
Keeping your name in their mind works wonders.
When I was looking for a job years ago I read somewhere to find the name of the person to speak to, call them and say “Hi - my name is 21twelve and I’m interested in working for you doing xyz. I’d like to meet with you. Would next Monday afternoon or Tuesday morning work for you?”
Several companies (small to medium sized firms) took me up on that. One turned into a real possibility but it wasn’t the right fit for me.
One guy of a small firm (the owner) talked with me for quite awhile.
“So - do you have any opportunities here for me?”
“No - and I don’t expect to, we are really small. But I really wanted to meet you after your hell of a first phone call!”
He helped me out quite a bit in talking about other companies in the area (a new part of the country for me) that might need my help and the industry in general in that part of the country.