The general rule is a page for every 10 years of work experience! You'll probably need to make it fit unless a school specifically requests an "extended resume."

It's probably good practice for you anyway, next you're going to be asked to summarize the story of your life so far as well as your future aspirations etc. in 500 words or less.

I've seen one page. It's important to note that a resume for MBA admissions is target resume different from applying for a job in your field. I'm in engineering and we usually list all the projects I've worked on but for school I just highlight the "super" projects. A school resume is more of a brag sheet than typical job duties.

Do some searching and you can find some example student (1st and 2nd year) resumes. SHow the school you can "fit" and craft it in a similar fashion. Just my opinion.

Don't go beyond 1 page. I know several people who held several (4+) different positions before school and they all fit their stuff in 1 page. Unless you are a Ph D. candidate (in which case your resume would list research and papers), make it fit.

Tips:
- Use Arial narrow 9.
- Fit the name and address part in 1 or 2 lines (don't use 5 lines for street, zip, city, phone #, etc.).
- Edit! List around 3 or 4 accomplishment for the 2 most recent jobs and use less space for the rest.
- Edit ECs and other stuff, as well. If, for eg, you speak 4 languages, don't list each on a single line along with some certifications. Cluster them together.
- It takes a while (and it feels bad to cut some good stuff) but it should fit in the end.



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Even if you are in academics, I wouldn't go beyond a single-page resume. Full citations of abstracts and papers would belong on a CV. A resume should feature pretty brief descriptions, i.e. "Multiple first-author publications regarding X in Journal of Y and The Z Journal." If you do have more room you can get more descriptive, but you get my drift.

ONE page, unless you have more than 10 yrs of WE, then you should apply to Exec MBA.

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very small font, small margins, and concise wording.
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Kid, is that a crack at my age?

It actually wasn't too difficult. Med school got a line or two. Summarizing medical training was a bit challenging within the confines of bullet points, but I eventually figured out something workable.

In any event, I'm told that most of the firms I'm going to be looking at (medically-related, non-banking/consulting) typically want to look at a full CV anyway. So I'll need to make sure I keep the ol' CV up to date.

Your age? haha I'm not that far behind.


Bingo!


2 pages for college students? That is a lot. I think I had Blockbuster Video on my resume in college. hahaha

Either small fonts, or you will have to prioritize your projects and just list the top 6 or 8 ones.
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A resume is not a place to list everything you have ever done. It's a place for highlights, to just give them a taste and get the juices flowing so they want to call you for an interview. If it can't be read in 15 seconds, don't even bother.

Do not use smaller fonts, do not widen margins and do not include anything that isn't attention grabbing. Does someone really want to know the details about your role as a junior analyst on a project from 4 years ago? Could it possibly be that different from the experience of the thousands of other junior analysts that come out of college each year? Yawn...

My interview resume had college and two advanced degrees (one in progress of course), a year each at two different law firms (a dozen or more deals at each) and 4+ years as an entrepreneur running an international business ringing up sales up to $3mm+ annually - beleive me lots of stories and experiences. I was able to fit everything comfortably onto one page, with room to spare to talk about wine collecting.

Type up everything that you think you might want to include, and then sit back, pretend you are an adcom or recruiter, look at each line and ask yourself "why would I give a crap about this"? If you still can't cut it down to a page, you shouldn't be applying to business school, you should be running a company, or for congress or something.