My advice, hit the highlights, include the numbers and hard data, hit the keywords.  After that, leave them something to discuss with you in person.  What exactly do you do?

Wierd, I was just redoing my wifes this morning.

I've been hiring and firing in corporate America for about 25 years.  Reviewed my share of resumes and kind of know what I liked and didn't as well as what worked with others and didn't.  

A resume should be the following outline:

Contact Info:  On the very top basic information with your name in big bold.  

Objective:  BS statement of what you are looking for, one line.

Work Experience:  Where, title, and dates in heading.  Three subcatagories limited to three items each subcatagory, two if your job title is product/what specific.  The three catagories products/what, reponsibilities, major accomplishments.  Keep the last one short but to the point, increased sales X%, three promotions, etc.  Use bullet points.  

Education: Degrees and where on title line.  No more than three followup continuing education sentences.

Interests:  One liner listing hobbies.  Avoid contraversial hobbies.  This shows you are more than one deminsional.

Personal Information: Optional and only if it may influence getting the job.

The only reason you should have to go over one page is if you have to dig back into your work experience to hit a job new job specific.  I leave many of my early jobs off my resume now.  Never go over two pages and if you go two pages make sure the font is at least 12.  Making the impression easier to read is better than too busy.  Over two pages is an instant turnoff for it appears you were job jumping.  

Use bullet points where you can in the format.  This makes it easy to read and easy to retain.  Remember the higher in management that is reading it the shorter their attention span will be.  Remember if two pages upper management won't read it period.  They would have already figured your education was checked and past experience and only look at you last experience.  That catagory should be best or the one right after if the last one had short tenure.  

Modify the resume to fit the job you are applying for.  This often requires less effort than you think once you have a format.  It mostly is the objective statement.  

Personally I like the Word format.  Its simple and to the point.  

Catching the eye of the reader if doing a mail out is always a hot topic but in doing so its often a trade between catching the eye and coming off as pretentious.  Many people use fancy paper to do this, however personally when reviewing resumes, I always gave that a black mark from the start. You want to come off as professional but not hired done.  

Do not address salary in the resume.  Do note at the bottom if you want your current employer contacted and if not note references upon request.  

There you go.

Tj

Depending on your pay scale two pages is acceptable. Better paying jobs require much more experence, skills, knowlege, abilities, and talents. Hopefully they're willing to read through two whole pages worth of resume to find the right person.