Internship résumé
The hard part is not writing it, it is the order. With little employment history, the ordinary layout puts your strongest material last and a screening system reads a nearly empty file.
What this one has to carry
Beyond the ordinary sections every résumé needs. These are the things filtered on for this particular role, and they have to appear as words in the body of the document.
- Education first, with the degree, the institution, the expected date and relevant coursework
- Projects as a proper dated section — they parse exactly like jobs and count as evidence
- Any paid work at all, however unrelated, with real dates: it proves you have held a job
- Tools by name, from coursework as readily as from employment
The one that costs people this job
Leaving the dates off projects
Undated projects are the most common reason an early-career résumé comes back reading as having no experience whatsoever. A dated project is read as an entry; an undated one is read as decoration.
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