The red pencil/green pencil model is a great way to determine if you are including enough relevant terms in your resume.

Get a red pencil and a green pencil. Now take the red pencil and circle all of the application or company specific terms in the resume. You will be circling terms such as ATS analyzer, planar, frame relay, Merriman project, etc. Now take the green pencil and circle all of the common denominator terms that could be of interest to another employer in different product areas. This would include terms, such as C/C++, MFC, MPW, MetroWerks, CodeWarrior, TCL, OpenDoc, OLE, SQL, DLL, SDK, TCP/IP, SCSI device driver, AOCE, Slot Manager, MacApp, Think C, text handling routines, etc...

Now rewrite your resume by adding more green. Don't worry if you double the length. When you print it, tack it to the wall, and stand back 10 feet. You should see a mass of green on the first and second page.

Remember, your resume is aimed toward your future immediate supervisor. The information included should give this person an in-depth appreciation of the projects you've worked on, including your role and achievements. Supervisors are looking for experience that would be relevant to their situation, which means they are looking for common denominators between your experience and their needs.

You may have read books calling for all resumes to be one page. That's good advice for shoe salesmen and secretaries but not for you. You are at the point where a couple of pages crammed with information is the target to shoot for. When a hiring manager gets done reading your resume, you want them to exclaim, "Wow, this is a heavy duty programmer with skills very relevant to what we're doing."