As an executive, you’ve probably got a lot of experience to draw on, and probably a fairly impressive body of work. But even if you’ve got a tremendous amount of experience, sometimes it doesn’t translate particularly well to your resume.

At the executive level, a resume needs to provide a solid, full description of an entire career’s worth of accomplishments. If your executive resume is too short, here’s a look at a few ways to stretch it out while still maintaining your focus.

Tell Your Story

One way that you can stretch out your mini executive resume is to tell a story. Most people think of resumes as dry documents, but you can get a good relevant anecdote into yours. Resumes of the executive level have different rules, and a quick story with a point is certainly acceptable.

There are a number of ways to tell your story, including defining who you are and what you want to accomplish in your executive profile, which replaces the objective/summary of qualifications. Also, you can tell 2-3 sentence stories as you define each one of your accomplishments with who, what, when, where, why and how information.

Include Every Detail

One habit that most workers get into early in their careers that seems to be hard to get out of is thoroughly keeping track of accomplishments every step of the way. Most times we’re too busy working to even notice what we’ve done. When it comes time to write a resume, we’re often at a loss when trying to explain an accomplishment that happened a long, long time ago.

The only problem with this “non-strategy” of recordkeeping is that when it comes time to include these events in a resume, all of the details are all but lost. So we end up including basic descriptions instead of describing each event as it truly occurred. The more information you have about a certain event, though, the easier it is to stretch out the information in a resume without adding too much fluff. Take some time to pause occasionally and write down the important aspects of accomplishments–the sooner, the better.

Try to Avoid Half Pages

That nagging half page can be a major annoyance when working on your resume. It seems that just when you’re putting the last few bits of information in the document, an entire section shifts to a new page, leaving you with a partial page to deal with. This means you either have to subtract information, or add new details.

In a concise executive resume, this isn’t easy to do. You can, however, use your word processor to eliminate those half pages by slightly changing the margins and adjusting the size of the font, subtracting or adding a half number to the font size. You’re also able to change a font style to add some extra length as long as the new font maintains a degree of professionality. Don’t switch the font around too much within the document, though, as you need to have a consistent look.

Every little thing counts when you’re creating your resume, and length is no exception. While you’re spending time updating and making little resume changes, don’t ignore the resume’s length or you’ll be missing a great opportunity.