Student Resume Templates

One page, single column, education at the top with your expected graduation date and GPA if it's 3.5+. Then the sections that substitute for a work history: projects with concrete outcomes, campus roles, part-time work — in whatever order puts your strongest material highest. Employers reading student resumes aren't looking for experience; they're looking for evidence you finish things and can quantify them.

That structure isn't just recruiter preference — it's also what parses cleanly through the application portals (Workday, Handshake-connected systems) that campus recruiting runs on.

Same skeleton, different substitutions. A high-school resume leans on coursework, clubs, sports, volunteering and any paid work at all — reliability is the signal, and a part-time job held for a year says more than most activities. A college resume shifts weight to major-specific projects, internships and campus leadership, and starts dropping high-school content by sophomore year (graduation-year rule of thumb: once you have two college items in a section, the high-school item comes out).

Course projects with outcomes ("built X used by Y people"), volunteering framed as responsibility ("scheduled 30 volunteers weekly"), club or team roles with scope, and skills you can actually demonstrate. The one thing not to do: pad with adjectives. A short resume with three concrete items reads better than a full page of "motivated team player."