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As a current student, you want to emphasize your education. Put your education information at the top of your resume (scroll down for samples from SSC alumni!) Also list any academic awards, honors, or other achievements.
If you have formal paid work experience, include it. Otherwise, you can include informal work like babysitting, pet sitting, lawn mowing, shoveling snow, or anything else you've done to earn money. Even if you didn't collect a regular paycheck, informal work still displays skills and your reliability as an employee.
It is important to draw upon all aspects of your life that show you have the character, work ethic, skills, and personality to succeed in a job.
TIP: Mention extracurricular activities, volunteer work, academics, and athletic pursuits!
If you held any sort of leadership positions in these roles (such as secretary of a club or team captain), be sure to note this. For each item, include a bulleted list of your responsibilities and accomplishments.
Employers will be most interested in your work habits and attitude. They don't expect you to have a lot of experience. If you have perfect or near-perfect attendance and are punctual for school and other commitments, you might include language to that effect when describing an experience.
other Achievements, skills, or volunteer work:
other Achievements, skills, or volunteer work:
Review each of your experiences and ask yourself if there are achievements in class, clubs, sports, or the workplace that you can include. If so, use verbs like enhanced, reorganized, increased, improved, initiated, upgraded, or expanded to show what you accomplished. Include any challenging advanced academic projects since this shows employers that you are intelligent and a hard worker.
TIP: If supervisors, teachers, or coaches have recognized you for a positive attitude or outstanding service, mention it in your description of the activity.
TIP: Edit! Thoroughly proofread your resume before submitting it anywhere. Make sure your format is consistent and easy to follow, and that you have no spelling or grammatical errors. Ask a friend or family member, your counselor (Mrs. Swanson, Mr. Craig, Mrs. Panowicz, or Mrs. Hames) to read through your resume. You can also go to the Achievement Center to have a teacher look it over!
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