First things first, let’s talk about which sections to use on a student resume.The essential sections for a student resume are:– Contact Information.– Resume Objective– Education– Work Experience (if you have any)– Skills
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What to Include In a Student Resume
If you don’t have much work experience, you can also use the following optional sections to stand out:– Projects– Volunteering– Awards and Qualifications– Hobbies and Interests– LanguagesOf course, you don’t have to include ALL of these sections, just the ones that are relevant for your resume.
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How to write a student resume summary
A resume summary is a 2-3 sentence summary of your career achievements and work experience that goes at the top of your resume.You’d go for a resume summary if you got started with your career early, and already have 2-3 years of work experience (if you don’t, you just go for a resume objective! More on that later).
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How to write a resume objective as a student
A resume objective, as we mentioned before, is basically the same thing as a resume summary, but with a focus on goals, objectives, skills, and education instead of work experience.In your student resume objective, you include:– What your field of study is.– Relevant skills– Why you’re applying for the position and what you can do to help.
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Emphasize Your Education and Certificates
Education is one of those sections that sound simple to structure, but requires a lot of details.You insert all the schools you attended in chronological order and done. You move on, right?Not exactly. There’s a ton of details that make up an education section.– Does your education section go on top, or under your work experience?
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Emphasize Your Education and Certificates
– Should you mention your GPA, even if it’s not all that good?– How do you mention your awards, honors, and so on?See? Not quite so simple, is it?Let’s start with the basics: how to list education on a resume, how to format it, and what to mention within.Here’s what a typical education entry includes:
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Emphasize Your Education and Certificates
– Program Name: E.g. “B.A. in Business Administration.”– University Name: E.g. “University of Texas at Austin”– Years Attended: E.g. “08/2008 - 06/2010”– (Optional) GPA: E.g. “3.9 GPA”– (Optional) Honors: E.g. “Cum Laude, Magna Cum Laude”.– (Optional) Academic Achievements: E.g. any interesting projects or papers you’ve written.
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Emphasize Your Education and Certificates
– (Optional) Minor: E.g. “Minor in Psychology.”
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How to list work experience as a student
When listing your previous jobs, you should follow a reverse-chronological order, and go with the standard work experience format.Which is as follows:– Job Title and Position - The first section the HR manager will check. To keep things simple, you can just use the exact name you saw in the job ad you’re applying for.
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How to list work experience as a student
– Company Name, Description, Location - Describe the company in 1-2 sentences, and be sure to mention the location (country, city) of the firm too.– Dates Employed - Simply list how long you worked at the previous role for. If you don’t remember the exact dates, feel free to give an approximate. Standard format for dates is: mm/yyyy
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How to list work experience as a student
– Achievements and Responsibilities - When possible, you should always list achievements over responsibilities. After all, the HR probably already knows what your responsibilities are. And with achievements, you should list any specific changes you made possible (use data and numbers!), that the HR manager could apply to their company.
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Best Skills to Mention on a Student Resume
There are 2 types of skills you can mention:– Soft Skills (Personal Skills): These are a mix of social, communication, and other personal traits. For example, leadership, critical thinking, time-management, so on.– Hard Skills (Measurable Abilities): These are your measurable abilities. So, anything from baking to complex machinery skills.
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Best Skills to Mention on a Student Resume
And for a student resume, here are a few of some of the top skills almost every single employer will value:– Verbal and Written Communication.– Teamwork.– Adaptability– Punctuality.– Organization.– Flexibility.– Problem-solving abilities.– Motivation.
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Best Skills to Mention on a Student Resume
– Patience.– Persuasion.– Time-management.
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5 Other Awesome Sections to Include in a Student Resume
Hobbies and interestsWhy would I want to include my hobbies in my resume, you might ask?Sure, it’s not going to be the section that gets you hired.It will, however, give the recruiter some insight on what you’re like as a person, and what are your interests.When the hiring manager is faced with 2 near-identical
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5 Other Awesome Sections to Include in a Student Resume
resumes from 2 equally-qualified candidates, the deciding factor might come down to your personality and interests.
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5 Other Awesome Sections to Include in a Student Resume
LanguagesThis one’s pretty simple.Are you bilingual? Maybe even trilingual?You should ALWAYS mention that in your resume!Most companies are pretty international nowadays. And even if the position you’re applying for doesn’t need any specific language skills, it can still come in handy at some point.
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5 Other Awesome Sections to Include in a Student Resume
To list languages in your resume, simply write them down and assign them the appropriate level:– Native.– Fluent.– Proficient.– Intermediate.– Basic.
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5 Other Awesome Sections to Include in a Student Resume
Awards and CertificationsDo you have a piece of paper with your name on it that says why you’re so smart and qualified?It could be an award from a competition, or an online certificate. Whichever the case, as long as it’s relevant to your job - you can include it in your resume to further back up your expertise.
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5 Other Awesome Sections to Include in a Student Resume
PublicationsAre you a freelance writer? Or worked with your university’s student paper?You can include any relevant works you published (online, academic journal, etc.) with an URL in a publications section.