<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm a rising sophomore who will be moving to Canada at the end of the month. I am finishing an internship at a lab and wish to work on a project in Canada. </p>
<p>My resume has first and foremost my qualifications for working in a lab-internship, strong desire, background in courses etc. </p>
<p>Then I have education, extracurriculars, science competitions, work experience/volunteerism. </p>
<p>Should I re-list my internship under work? It makes my resume more than one page. If I re-list it, I'll probably have to delete my library volunteering I did. </p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>I know this is a pretty silly question, but I really want to make a strong impression, considering that I won't have known these people personally before emailing them.</p>
<p>Thanks ! :)</p>
<p>When you say re-list, do you mean list it twice? No, you shouldn’t. But there is no reason you shouldn’t put your internship under a new header (say, “Experience” or “Work History”) rather than list it as an academic endeavor or extracurricular activity. It sounds as though your internship is your best qualification for the position you seek, so put it front-and-center, best foot forward and all that.</p>
<p>With my resume I had two sections: “Experience” and then after that a section titled “Additional Background”. Experience was where I put the paying jobs I had had as well as any full time internships that were relevant. In Additional Background I chose two-three extracurricular activities that I did at college that were relevant to the job. In Experience, I put three or four short bullets listing my responsibilities for each job in as specific detail as possible. For additional background i just put one additional sentence explaining what I did. For example “Newspaper editor: supervised X number of reporters for campus weekly paper”. No more than that (by additional background i was running out of space anyway. </p>
<p>One note about extracurriculars, try to pick relevant ones only. Like if you’re applying for a job in politics, it’s great to note you were President of the Campus Reuplicans/Democrats/Independents/Greens. But don’t put down that you knit. Or that you were on the Quidditch team. I have read resumes where people listed that they enjoyed barbequeing and travel to new places. Don’t, don’t, don’t do that.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses! This why CC is so awesome 
</p>
<p>@ Mantori </p>
<p>I have a section like :
Science Internship, Shadowing, Volunteer and Scientific Research Qualifications</p>
<ul>
<li>Internship in a biochemistry/molecular biology laboratory for summer 2011. Aided…
-Strong interest in medical career fields and a desire to…
-Strong science background that includes current courses in Physics and Chemistry…etc</li>
</ul>
<p>Do you think I should try to highlight it even more than that? That’s basically the first thing that I have on my resume. </p>
<p>I’ll take it off Work Experience/Volunteerism. </p>
<p>Smithieandproud, most of my extracurriculars at my old high school were the typical math team/science olympiad, so they all pertained in some way. </p>
<p>I have sections like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Qualifications
-High School Studies and Extracurricular Activities (put my science courses and current schedule) as well as UW GPA.
-Honors and Recognitions (academic awards)</li>
<li>Science Competitions
-Work/Volunteering</li>
</ul>
<p>I think your method of splitting it into Experience/Additional Background might be better if I had more accomplishments/more things done, because Mantori was right in saying the internship is basically my only qualification for doing research with a college professor. I will be studying AP (which is kind of college level science), but I don’t have much beyond that. (Sorry, I just realized that I didn’t make clear that I am in HS still)</p>
<p>Do you think a statement of purpose is also a good idea? I don’t have one currently and when I showed it to the professor that I’m working with, he suggested I add one. He said that saying something about wanting to get into science and considering it for a career.
Thoughts? </p>
<p>I’m sort of unfamiliar with resumes, since one of my friends helped me to make mine so all this has been really helpful-thanks again!</p>