Resume Length for applying to grad school?

[bansalmohit]

What should be the optimum length of resume who has done BS in Comp Science, BA in Math and have been active researcher during undergrad (only 1 publication though)?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

If you have no professional working experience, the rule of thumb is to keep everything within 1 page. If it does not fit, it means you have too many irrelevant things there.

 

[bansalmohit]

If you have no professional working experience, the rule of thumb is to keep everything within 1 page. If it does not fit, it means you have too many irrelevant things there.

Because i could not get you to the other thread, i brought the other thread here:

Both CMU and MIT ask in application for long term and short term career goals? How long in years is long term and how short is short term? Is short term after graduation?​

Really value your opinion Andy so looking forward to hear from you​

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Yes, the schools want to know what you plan to do with their degree so everything starts from the moment you graduate from that program.
I don't know if there is a definite answer for this but in the context that you are all graduate students looking for first job, short-term is for as long as you are still consider junior in the industry (anywhere from 3-5 years). After that is long term.

 

[Ken Abbott]

Resume length? Consider:
Declaration of Independence: 1 page
Magna Carta: 1 page
Declaration of the Rights of Man: 1 page

Your resume...
(unless of course it's an academic CV requiring the itemization of publications and conference presentations)

 

[jackcoke]

Do people usually include test scores (eg GRE, TOEFL etc) in the resume for MFE application?

Or is the norm to exclude this since it's separately reported to the school?

 

[MRoss]

Include it