What is the ideal length for a CV?

What is the ideal length for a CV?

Rod Cornwell (International Director, Thomas International) gives expert video advice on: What information should be at the top of my CV?; What information should be in the main body of my CV?; What information should I not put on my CV? and more...

The ideal length of a CV should be two pages of eight-fourths. If it runs to five or six, then the employer is going to lose interest. They don't want to wait through that much information on you. Certainly I understand that if it runs over two pages a little bit that's fine. The one danger you have is trying to squeeze it all on two pages and you make the font unreadable because it's so small. So just over two pages is fine. Certainly five or six is much much too much.