NAME

email | phone number

EDUCATION
• University (YYYY – YYYY), GPA or Grades
o Student Organizations:
o Academic Awards:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Role, Organization, City/Country (MM/YYYY – MM/YYYY)
o What you did at the organization. Past experiences should be written in past tense
(“Worked…”) while current experiences should be written in present continuous tense
(“Working…”)
o If you have several volunteer experiences or research experiences, you can add a
section after this one titled “VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE” or “RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE” and list relevant experiences in a similar format in those sections.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
• Role, Organization, City/Country (MM/YYYY – MM/YYYY)
o What you did at the organization.

DISTINCTIONS
• Award Received, Organization (YYYY)

SKILLS
• Computer Skills
• Language Skills

See sample on next page.

JOHN SMITH
john.smith@email.com | +1(555)555-5555 Commented [JM1]: If you’re applying out of country,
make sure to include your country code.
EDUCATION
• Harvard University (2014 – 2018), GPA: 3.6 Commented [JM2]: If you haven’t graduated yet, be sure
o Student Organizations: President of UC Berkeley Journalists Association, Member of to include your Expected Graduation Date.

Cal Sailing Club, Swim Team Athlete

o Academic Awards: Dean’s List, Youngman Merit Scholar

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Commented [JM3]: As you’ll note, under Professional

Experiences, you can include:
• Editor, New York Messenger Youth Journal, New York City, NY (08/2018–Present) - Work Experience
- Internship Experience
o Leading editorial team for the Youth Journal and designing creative content.
- Student Associations/Club Experience
o Mentoring youth through Bronx Outreach Program. - Research Experience
o Raised journal viewership by 148%. Commented [JM4]: If you’re applying within a country
with states, use the State not the Country here. For example,
• President, Harvard University Newspaper, Boston, MA (04/2016–06/2018) here John has used New York state instead of the U.S.
Meanwhile, under Volunteer Experiences, he’s used
o Managed newspaper content, social events on campus, and newspaper departments. Mumbai, India instead of the particular state Mumbai is in.
o Organized crowdfund that raised $8,600 dollars for our centennial anniversary. (Similarly, if you were from India and applying within India,
this would be vice versa.)

• Research Intern, Media Bias Project, Harvard University, Boston, MA (01/2014–

05/2014)
o Researched the prevalence of media bias in city newspapers in Boston, Lancaster, and Commented [JM5]: Let’s talk punctuation:
Concord. 1) Always use the Oxford comma. Basically, make sure to
put a comma before “and” or “or” when you’re listing
o Created a media bias scale using R programming and Boston Forever datasets. three or more things.
o Presented research at the World Journalism Conference in Washington, DC. 2) End your bullet points with a period.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
• Volunteer, Delhi Marathon Committee, Mumbai, India (06/2018 – 08/2018)
o Organized food deliveries during the Delhi Marathon to participants.
o Raised awareness through designing flyers and conducting social media outreach.

DISTINCTIONS Commented [JM6]: Under Distinctions, you can include

anything that seems like an honor to you including:
• Gold Medal Service Award, U.S. President’s Volunteer Association (2018) - Awards
- Serving as a Judge/Volunteer position
• STEM Fair Judge, Intel Journalism in Science Fair (2017) - Attending a conference / presenting

SKILLS
• Proficient in R, STATA, and HTML. Excellent at Microsoft Office.
• Fluent in English and Hindi, Colloquial in Spanish