Student Resumes

Your Student Resume is probably your first proper Resume. As a student you won’t have the life or work experience of other people applying for jobs so you need your Student Resume to be that little bit more detailed and impressive.

Lots of Students decide to make their Resume quite generic, and this is probably a good idea. You may have your heart set on a particular career or job, but competition is going to be fierce and you will find yourself applying for lots of jobs. The best foot forward is to write a fairly broad resume, and tweak and adapt your Student Resume for each individual job that you apply for.

It’s nice to start your Student Resume with a little information about yourself as a person. Have a profile heading and write a couple of positive sentences about yourself. This should include a statement of your ambitions in the professional world. List your strong attributes such as reliability, enthusiasm, trustworthiness and numerate and really try to sell yourself in this section. You can also mention any work placements in this section which may help to persuade prospective employers that you are serious about your planned career choice.

The next section of your Student resume should delve into your education. This section should be a fairly large portion of your resume, and don’t be afraid to go into detail about aspects of your study which have been successful and are related to the arena in which you would like to work. You should work backwards chronologically, starting with your most recent qualifications or courses, and move backwards all the way to your high school results. If you have particularly bad results in any areas you feel are not relevant, then feel free to leave these out. However, remember that most employers will want to see some reasonable results in mathematics and English, even if these subjects don’t particularly relate to your goals so always include these results.

You can add another section with work experience. It may well be that this section will be split between work placements or shadowing work and part time jobs but that’s ok. At this stage in your career, no one is going to expect you to have amassed a great deal of experience in your chosen field. It is however important for your prospective employer to be able to see that you can hold down a job successfully whatever it was that you were doing.

Your next section should be your references. This should be a list of professors or tutors who you have studied under, with contact details. Try to choose the professors who taught you for the subjects related to the position to which you are applying.

The final section of your Student Resume should list your interests during school and college, and this is an opportunity for you to show that you were involved in sports teams and organisations which will show you to be an enthusiastic character who is ready to be a team player.

Sample Student Resumes

Finance Student Resume