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Student Resume Examples

Student resume examples for high school and college: a complete sample, a summary for each situation, and what to write with no work experience.

What has to be at the top

A student resume leads with education, because it is the main credential you have: the school, the month and year you expect to graduate, and your GPA if it helps. Below it goes whatever shows you can do the work, such as part-time jobs, class projects, clubs, sports and volunteering, each written with the same result-first bullets a working adult would use. It fits on one page.

The full example

A complete student resume example

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Why this example works

  • School, year and GPA open the summary because they are the strongest credential a second-year student has. The expected graduation date sits in the education line, which is where an employer looks to see when you could work full time.
  • The part-time job is written like any professional role, with numbers: members checked in, hires trained, shifts no longer left open.
  • A class project and a treasurer role fill the space a longer career would fill, and each one has a result of its own.
  • High school is gone. Once you are in college the college is enough, unless you are still in your first semester.

The student resume example as text

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Tyler Okafor
Business Administration Student

Tempe, AZtyler.okafor@email.com(555) 012-7719

Summary

Second-year business administration student at Arizona State University (3.6 GPA) with a 15-hour-a-week front desk job. Looking for a summer role in operations or customer support.

Experience
Front Desk Assistant — Saguaro Point FitnessSep 2024 – Present
  • Check in up to 400 members a shift and handle memberships, guest passes and equipment rentals.
  • Trained 6 new front-desk hires on the check-in system and the opening checklist.
  • Built a shared shift-swap spreadsheet that cut unfilled shifts from about five a month to one.
Cashier — Hilltop Family GroceryJun 2023 – Aug 2024
  • Ran a register on summer and weekend shifts, handling cash and card payments for 150 to 200 customers a day.
  • Closed out the register without a cash discrepancy on every audited shift in 2024.
Projects
Loyalty program proposal for a local coffee shop, Principles of Marketing

Led a four-person team that surveyed 120 customers; the owner piloted our loyalty card in spring 2025.

Activities
Treasurer, Finance and Investment Club

Manage the club's $4,200 annual budget and process reimbursements for 60 members.

Volunteer tutor, Eastside Library homework club

Tutor middle-school students in math two evenings a month.

Education
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, expected May 2028, GPA 3.6, Arizona State UniversityAug 2024 – May 2028
Licenses and certifications
  • Adult First Aid/CPR/AED, American Red Cross, Sep 2024
Skills

Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Point-of-sale systems, Cash handling, Canva, Customer service, Training new staff, Reliability

Languages

English (Native), Spanish (Intermediate)

Illustrative. Not a real person and not a real employer.

Summaries

Student resume summary examples for each situation

The same resume opens differently depending on where you are starting from. One summary for each case, and what it leads with.

  • High school student, first job

    High school junior (3.4 GPA) with two summers of paid babysitting for three families and 40 hours of volunteer work at the county animal shelter. Available after 3 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends for a part-time retail or restaurant job.

    For a first job, availability is part of the pitch, so it goes in the summary. Babysitting, mowing lawns and helping in a family business all count as work.

  • College student, part-time or summer job

    Third-year computer science student at the University of Michigan working at the campus IT help desk: close 25 to 30 tickets a week and wrote the desk's printer troubleshooting guide. Looking for a summer position in software or IT support.

    Name the major and the year, then one job or project with a number in it. The last sentence says what kind of role you are after.

  • Student with no work experience

    First-year biology student at Florida State University (3.8 GPA) and two-season captain of a varsity high school swim team, which meant 5 a.m. practices and organizing carpools for 14 teammates. Looking for a part-time lab assistant or tutoring position.

    Without a job, school, sports, clubs and volunteering are the evidence. Pick the one that best shows you turn up and take responsibility, and give it a number.

Skills

Skills for a student resume

Students tend to pad the list with soft skills because they have fewer hard ones. Turn that around: name the software and tools you actually use, even if only for school, and let the jobs and activities show the rest.

Hard skills

Office and computer

  • Microsoft Excel
  • Google Sheets and Docs
  • Microsoft Word
  • PowerPoint
  • Canva

Customer-facing work

  • Cash handling
  • Point-of-sale systems
  • Phone and email etiquette
  • Food handling

School and projects

  • Research and writing
  • Data entry
  • Presentations
  • Social media content

Soft skills

  • Reliability
  • Willingness to learn
  • Teamwork
  • Time management
  • Communication
  • Taking responsibility

Name two or three of these in the skills section at most. They count for more when a bullet shows one at work.

Bullet points

Student resume bullet points, before and after

Five lines as people first write them, and the same lines rewritten so the result comes last, where the eye lands. The numbers are illustrative; use your own.

  • Worked as a cashier.

    Handled cash and card payments for 150 to 200 customers a shift at a neighborhood grocery store and closed out the register without a discrepancy all summer.

  • Member of the debate team.

    Researched and argued 12 tournament cases a season on the varsity debate team, and placed third at the 2025 regional championship.

  • Did a group project for marketing class.

    Led a four-person class project that surveyed 120 shoppers for a local bakery; the owner adopted the weekday discount we proposed.

  • Volunteered at a food bank.

    Sorted and packed food for 300 households a month at a volunteer-run food bank, and recruited eight classmates to cover the Saturday shift.

  • Babysat for neighbors.

    Looked after three children aged 4 to 9 for two families after school, including homework and dinner, for two years without missing a day.

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Beyond experience

What to list instead of work experience

Anyone hiring students knows most applicants have little or no job history, so they look for the next best evidence that you turn up, learn quickly and finish things. These sections supply it. Include the ones you can fill with something specific and skip the rest.

  • Education and GPA

    School, expected graduation month and year, and your GPA if it is 3.0 or higher. Honors and relevant coursework get one line each. High school students list their high school; college students drop it after the first year.

  • Projects

    Class projects, a website you built, a small business you ran over the summer. Give each one a title, what you did and what came of it, exactly as you would a job.

  • Clubs, sports and leadership

    Captain, treasurer, organizer: a title shows that somebody trusted you with something. Say how many people or how much money it involved.

  • Volunteering

    Name the organization, how often you went and what you did there. Volunteering you kept up for months reads as reliability, which is most of what a first employer is hiring for.

  • Certificates

    First aid and CPR, a food handler card, lifeguard certification, Microsoft Office Specialist: anything with an issuer and a date. They take one line each and an employer can check them.

Template

Which template to use for a student resume

Basic. A plain one-column layout that every applicant tracking system reads, and a student resume has no reason to be anything more: the content is short, and a plain page makes it look complete rather than sparse. Basic is also the one layout that downloads free without a watermark.

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Student resume questions

What should I write in a resume as a student?

Education first (school, expected graduation date, and GPA if it is 3.0 or higher), then any jobs, then projects, activities and volunteering, each with one or two bullets on what you did and what came of it. Finish with a short skills line naming real tools, and keep the whole thing on one page.

What is the best format for a student resume?

Reverse chronological, one column, one page, with education at the top. A skills-based or functional resume tends to look as if it is hiding a gap, and a student has no gap to hide: a short history is what the reader expects.

How do I write a student resume with no work experience?

Replace the experience section with the next best evidence: projects, clubs, sports, volunteering and informal work such as babysitting or helping in a family business. Write each one as you would a job, with a title, dates and a result, and put your availability in the summary.

What should a 16-year-old's resume look like?

Short and specific: name, phone, email and city; a two-line summary with your grade and when you can work; your school and GPA; any informal work, volunteering or sports; and a few skills. Half a page is fine for a first job.

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