Career Services advises you to do the impossible

I recently submitted my resume to career services for approval. I was advised to cut down a 2 page resume to a one page resume while at the same time putting additional spaces between each item on my resume and spelling out the full name of my all my former places of employment (i.e. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management Contractor Certification Department -- there's a reason I used abrieviations-- I prefer to keep the place of employment to one line, not four).

The only way that my resume can include the information they require (Info on law school, interests, education, licenses, skills and at least all my jobs held since college plus any other relevant ones) is to go to a second page. Or I could just go ahead and turn in a piece of paper with my name and education experience and tell them to give me a call if they want to know what jobs I've held. Or I suppose I could try just listing the jobs I have held with no information on what I did there-- I suppose that could work out for me. Maybe the employers will assume what I did was too important to put into words.

The point is, have any of these career counselers actually tried to do what it is that they propose. I only have 8 years of work experience and I can't fit it on one page. How about my classmates who are in their 30's and 40's-- what are they supposed to do?

I know from experience that if you send a 2 page resume, people read the whole thing. I always get questions about information listed on the second page of the resume.

Gack! I hate career counselers. First I'm told that there's no way in hell I can get the job I want after graduating from this school and now this. Maybe I should just become a career counseler after I graduate -- the hours are probably much nicer than those of a lawyer and I would get to sit around and pass judgment on people all day.