Application documents are your opportunity to showcase your qualifications and experience, highlight your personal brand, and showcase your ability to be career ready.
Consider your documents as the first “interview”–you want to make a good first impression with employers and recruiters. Download our Resume Template and follow along to get a headstart on your resume!
Sample Resumescover letters & reference pages
Create and perfect your resume using the information below. But remember, your resume is personal to you and your experiences.
Your resume begins with a header that includes:
Make sure you have selected a simple, professional-looking email address. Your student email address is a great choice.
Many jobs require specific levels of education, degrees, or coursework. This makes your Education section one of the most important components of your resume.
List your education section right after your header to ensure this qualification is noted by the reader.
Students who have degrees from multiple institutions should list them in reverse chronological order.
It is not necessary to include your high school education. It is fine to include positions you held in high school on your resume, but those will show up in your Experience section.
Employers are looking for you to show that you are career ready in your experience section.
Experiences can be anything where you gained or showcased the skills you will need to be successful in the role you are applying to obtain:
List in reverse chronological order, remembering that you do not need to list out everything you have ever done. Just experiences you want to showcase.
As you describe your experiences, utilize action verb statements to focus on a strong transferable skill or related task. No need for personal pronouns in your bullet statements
Use additional sections to show your holistic self; these should be unique to you and not based on a template.
Some common sections:
