Resume guides
How to write a student resume
For school and university students: coursework, projects, volunteering and part-time work, arranged so they read as experience.
Student resumes are short by necessity. The advantage is that a reader expects it — so you can be selective without it looking thin.
What counts as experience
- Class projects with a defined problem and your own contribution
- Society or club roles with real responsibility — budgets, events, recruitment
- Part-time and holiday work, described by what you improved
- Volunteering with measurable scope
- Self-directed work: open source, writing, competitions
One page, always
Everything a student has fits on one page. Two pages of padding reads worse than one tight page.
Dates and honesty
Give expected graduation dates. If a project was group work, say what you did — vague group claims are the fastest way to lose an interviewer's trust.