<p>Hey, so I'm a junior in college writing my first resume and i'm a little lost. I don't have any experience besides my 3 old jobs and i don't know what else to put. I don't have relevant experiences, volunteer work or anything. If anyone has any ideas what else i could put please let me know!
Also, from past experience, has anyone else gotten a good internship with a kind of lame resume? I want an internship wicked bad this summer so i don't have to settle for another low paying, irrelevant to my career path job. Do only the outstanding resumes get the internships?</p>
<p>You would be better served if you went to your school’s career services center. They can sit down with you and go over your experience so that you can write a real resume.</p>
<p>In general, a resume should include the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Contact information: Name, email, address, one phone number</li>
<li>Education: College(s) with majors, minors, awards, certificates, concentrations and GPAs; optionally, high schools attended</li>
<li>Work: Names and locations of the organizations, dates worked, job titles, summary of duties</li>
<li>Involvement: Clubs, fraternities, etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>Your resume should not exceed one page and should be easy to follow. Look online for some samples.</p>
<p>Different majors have different resume style(s)/format.</p>
<p>Coming from a CS background, my resume follows:</p>
<p>Education: major/minor, gpa, relevant classes, any courses you might’ve TA’ed</p>
<p>Professional Exp: company, location, role, meaningful description (e.g. developed a tool in PL/SQL and shell to automate database archival and resulted in 30% decrease in memory usage on targeted databases)</p>
<p>Projects: outside/personal projects, class projects (especially team projects and role(s) in team(s). </p>
<p>Technical proficiency: any technical expertise that is relevant to the job. A few extra doesn’t hurt.</p>
<p>If you still have room at this point (which shouldn’t be that much), include extracurricular that makes you stand out as a candidate and as a leader. Activities can be completely unrelated to your field, but they are always looking for transferable skills, so have descriptions that reflect that.</p>
<p>**A good resume doesn’t get you internships. It does however, let you make the cut and get you an interview. A good rule to remember is that any thing on your resume is fair game during an interview. Know your resume like you know yourself. Have a meaningful story for every entry. If you put down you took a class in Cryptography, you better know the basics.</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>