<p>Not sure if this is the right place to ask this but oh well.</p>
<p>I'm applying to some local scholarships and they require a resume. The packet my guidance counselor gave me about how to write a resume says it can only be 1 page long. This is impossible! I want to include as much as I can to prove that I am qualified for the scholarship, but that requires me to go into a second page. Is this really a big deal?</p>
<p>The ONE PAGE rule is pretty standard. You’re a kid, you don’t have that much significant to include. People don’t want to read thru pages. Be brief!!!</p>
<p>I don’t know anything specifically about this competition etc. But follow the rules. They are there for a reason and everyone who follows them will play under the same rules. Those who cannot follow the rules may be eliminated. </p>
<p>Also, most resumes come with cover letters that can include information (“as you can see from my resume, I love working with horses/exploring Mars in my spare time” or whatever). Even lawyers and other professionals with decades of experience (other than those qualifying as “experts” using a CV) will try to/be advised to keep it to one page for job hunts. Good luck!</p>
<p>Make sure you make the margins wider, and your font smaller first… But my career center at my school advises making your resume as long as you need it. Put your most important things first, but it’s silly to leave off things that could help you win a scholarship just because in the business world sometimes companies require 1 page resumes. Put on as many things as you need as long as they apply.</p>
<p>Got to any college resource center – they all advise graduates to write a 1-page resume, so a high school student, with even less experience, should follow the same rule. Here’s a good sample guide to follow: <a href=“http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/materials/resumes_and_cover_letters.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/materials/resumes_and_cover_letters.pdf</a></p>
<p>A resume for a high school student for college and scholarships is different from a job resume and although it is academic it is still different from a college student or grad student resume. It should not have a cover letter if it accompanies an application, only if it is sent somewhere as a standalone piece.</p>
<p>Of course you want to put every little detail in it, but that would be a mistake. Everyone does not want to wade through several pages. Stick to one page unless there is a very compelling reason. Edit to highlight the most important things.</p>
<p>Nowadays with electronic sending, I’ve read that resumes can <em>sometimes</em> be longer than one page - definitely no more than two. HOWEVER, the common wisdom is that this advice is for accomplished senior professionals who have many years of experience 10-15+ and might not be able to fit all of their positions and accomplishments into one page. New grads and less experienced professionals are always advised to keep their resumes to one page.</p>
<p>A high school senior, on the other hand, should definitely be able to fit everything onto one page. Your education should only take up about 3 lines, so use the rest of the space to elaborate on your extracurriculars and awards and don’t use an objective (they just take up space).</p>
<p>Yes you (a high school student) should be able to complete a resume in one page (yes a two page resume is for more experienced professionals, mine is two pages). Good luck!</p>
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<p>If the rule is one page and you break it, you do so at your own peril, IMO. If the packet your GC gave you is not from the scholarship organization then I suppose you have some leeway. But I’d go smaller font and narrower margins first, and consider carefully if every little thing you ever did really needs to be on there.</p>
<p>If your resume is more than one page, you are including unimportant stuff that should be eliminated</p>