<p>Hey, I am a freshman at Johns Hopkins. I am trying to get a research position in a lab with a professor and he said that he would like to see my resume. I never had the oppurtunity to do research in high school, but I am very interested in the work that he is doing. Do you guys have any ideas of what I should write about? Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>...anyone have any suggestions?</p>
<p>I just stuck my first lab-job-finding resume online for you to check out -- it's [url=<a href="http://web.mit.edu/mollieb/Public/PDFs/Other/Resume0703.pdf%5Dhere%5B/url">http://web.mit.edu/mollieb/Public/PDFs/Other/Resume0703.pdf]here[/url</a>]. (I removed my name, email, home address, and term address -- those would usually go at the top.)</p>
<p>You should put your major and any relevant classes you've taken (especially lab classes), plus previous work experience you've had. If you've taken a lab class, I would write the procedures you learned how to do in that class.</p>
<p>The bottom section of mine is super-cheesy. I don't know that I'd recommend putting it, unless you have some actually relevant "other skills and interests" (which I don't think I did!).</p>
<p>Good luck getting the job!</p>
<p>EDIT: Professors often like it when you're at least nominally familiar with their published work when you go in for interviews, so if you can, search for some of this professor's papers and be familiar with their techniques and conclusions.</p>
<p>thanks a lot mollie!</p>
<p>Holy **** nice resume there.</p>
<p>You're welcome, xnwc. :)</p>
<p>Haha, adconard, I think my current one looks much better, particularly considering that I've been in a lab for two more years now and I actually have relevant stuff to put on it!</p>
<p>Hey mollie,</p>
<p>Since I don't have previous lab experinece, should I just not include the "previous work experience" section...? The only job I had in high school was a produce clerk and I don't think thats the kind of thing my professor is looking for =-p</p>
<p>I did take two lab classes this semester that just ended, though. Should I include some procedures I learned from them instead? Thanks for the help...</p>
<p>I would definitely include procedures from the lab classes you took.</p>
<p>About non-lab experience... if you have no lab experience, I feel like it's worthwhile to include non-science jobs -- I included my library job, as you see. Now that I have more lab experience, I don't include the library job anymore.</p>
<p>But if it makes more sense to you to have a section labeled "Laboratory Classes" instead of "Work Experience" -- go for it.</p>