Ultimate Resume Template – College Version

Here is your ultimate resume template for a college student, recent college graduate, or very
young professional. I recommend keeping your resume to one page. Please format for your
word processing tool. The instructions are provided within each section. Simply remove them
after reading and proceed. The bullets are mere placeholders and intended to add levity to
this rather dull necessity!

SUZANNE SORORITY (USE ONLY FIRST AND LAST NAME)

101 College Party Drive • Collegetown, IN 47401 • (812) 555-1234 • imanut@gmail.com

PROFILE

INSTRUCTION: The Profile provides a quick snapshot of you as a person and soon-to-be full-
time professional. Your goal is to provide a one-paragraph, high-level overview of you as a
student and part-time worker. This helps employers develop a picture in their minds regarding
who you are and what’s forthcoming in your resume. You want to entice them. Keep in mind;
this is your “sales copy” of you to get them interested! As you develop your resume, simply
remove this italicized text and start creating over the next paragraph.

Example: State University graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and

Psychology minor. Held various summer jobs and internships focusing on sales support
activities. Served on several university and fraternal committees. Built additional sales-
related capabilities via school fundraising activities and other volunteering efforts.

EDUCATION

STATE UNIVERSITY, City, State, Year

B.S., Marketing; Dean’s List

WORK EXPERIENCE

INSTRUCTION: The Work Experience section provides a more detailed view of your work
experience. You should list your experience in reverse chronological order (i.e., most recent
work history on top). It is best to highlight the company name and its location (city, state) as
well as the months/years or summers/winters/spring breaks you worked there.

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Immediately below the company name, there are a couple of options. You can provide a one-
sentence, high-level description of the company to ensure the employer understands the
companies’ goals. This is simply for frame of reference, but is helpful especially if you have
worked at lesser-known medium or smaller-sized companies. You can follow that sentence with
one or two high-level sentences regarding you, your accomplishments, and your role(s) at that
company. This is a summary of you at the time you worked for that specific company.

Immediately below the company name, provide your title (sales associate, intern, etc.). If your
company uses titles that might confuse the prospective employer, you can provide a
parenthetical explanation next to the title that highlights your business function. For you,
there’s a low likelihood of this, but keep it in mind as you progress as a professional. This
general explanation can be helpful when the title is not intuitively obvious. Remove the italics
section and simply add your relevant, analogous experience over the sample bullets!

MILEWALK, INC. Park Ridge, IL Summer 2016

An executive search firm that does stuff. It’s really good at it too.

Summer Intern
 Performed research activities for various marketing-related areas such as prospect
identification, new product ideas, speaking opportunities for the CEO (who’s a really
cool guy), and a few other things. There were more things too, but it was last summer so
I forgot those.
 Optimized the company’s social media structure to include LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, and Google Plus. It was really neat because I got to keep up with my friends’
status updates all day long while I was stuck at work.

NORDSTROM Chicago, Illinois Summer 2015

They’re a big retailer. They’re like everywhere.

Sales Clerk
 I sold men’s clothes, mostly to their wives. Sometimes I sold it to the men too.
 I worked the cash register too, but it wasn’t’ that fun because most people buy things
with credit cards. Did you know that?

PARK RIDGE COUNTRY CLUB Park Ridge, Illinois Summers 2010-2014

It’s a really cool club where lots of people play golf, tennis, and do other fun stuff.

Honor Caddy
 I looped.

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VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES & OTHER COOL THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT ME

MULTILINGUIST, There is no city for this. It’s with me wherever I go.

I speak French, Spanish, and Italian. Sometimes all at once.

PEOPLE TO PEOPLE STUDENT AMBASSADOR PROGRAM, Chicago, IL, 2010-Present

I was the ambassador silly. Whatdidyathink I was?

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATION VOLUNTEER, South America, 2014

Mom said I needed to get out of the house and she wanted me far away.

GIRL SCOUT TROOP LEADER, Chicago, IL, 2010-Present

I just never outgrew it!

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 Meet Your Coach!

Andrew LaCivita is currently a world- leading

career and leadership coach, trainer, and
speaker. He is the award- winning author of
three books, including The Hiring Prophecies:
Psychology behind Recruiting Successful
Employees and Interview Intervention:
Communication That Gets You Hired, and has
dedicated his life and career to helping
people and companies realize their potential.

During his career, he has served as an

executive in large and small companies,
board member, angel investor, and serial
entrepreneur. Everything he does is aimed at
helping people and companies reach
He also is the executive producer, writer,
peak performance.
star, video engineer, and sound engineer of
his Top 5 career vlog titled Tips for Work and
Through the executive search firm, milewalk,
Life®. This multi-modality platform is
which he started in 2004, he has consulted to
designed to educate, entertain, and inspire
more than 200 companies, counseled more
the viewers via whatever medium they love.
than 12,000 individuals, helped nearly 600
You can also find Tips for Work and Life®
people successfully secure new jobs, and
multi-cast on his YouTube channel, iTunes,
negotiated $100 million dollars in salaries
and various other podcasting platforms.
and compensation on their behalf.

As a career and leadership expert, Andrew

His job interviewing methodology has
serves as a trusted media resource and is
statistically, historically proven to increase
often featured on television, radio, and
the job seeker’s chance of getting hired by
Internet magazines for his insight and
more than 560%.
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In 2016, Andrew created the milewalk
contributed to several prominent
Academy, his training and coaching
international news outlets such as Fox
site to support people in their careers
Business, ABC, Inc., Business Insider, and
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Forbes.
Individuals will find incredibly valuable free
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To learn more about his coaching, courses,
every imaginable aspect of supporting their
and books, visit him at the milewalk
careers.
Academy.

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