<p>Seeing as this is the Engineering Majors, hopefully there are people here who have gotten internships or jobs in the engineering industry.</p>
<p>General question, what did you put in your resume when you were currently a college student, and how far back did you go (ie, just college stuff or high school even)</p>
<p>And did you need to put professor recommendations/transcripts/personal statement, etc</p>
<p>I feel like as a college student without much experience, there isn't much to put into a resume.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Well I know on my resume, the things I put are the following:
-A brief summary of my interests
-My Education details, like University I attend, my major, Overall and Major GPA, etc.
-Any applicable work experience/past internships
-Leadership roles
-Research work
-Honors: Honors societies, terms on deans list, honors program, other awards
-Skills applicable to the job, such as software skills. </p>
<p>I fit this into a page and leave the top with my name and various forms of contacting me. This is basically what I do, but I will not say my structure is at all perfect. Just giving you an idea though. </p>
<p>By the way, if you aren’t already, you should try getting more involved so you can add things to your resume other than a GPA.</p>
<p>Usually, the undergraduate students looking for internships have fairly similar resumes. Generally they include contact information, school attending, GPA if good, in-major course listing, projects (often those in courses, but a few may have gotten undergraduate research or a previous year internship), applicable skills (although they were often fairly similar – e.g. most CS majors from a given college list the same programming languages that they used in the CS courses), previous employment, honors, and college extracurriculars.</p>
<p>Sometimes, the biggest distinction came in the phone call, by just asking about a key concept from a core course in the major (assuming that s/he had the course listed on his/her resume) in order to find out how well the student remembered a concept that s/he is likely to apply on the job.</p>
<p>When I am applying my first job, I put:</p>
<p>-Relevant experience (i did research)
-GPA
-relevant courses
-volunteering
-opensource projects</p>
<p>hope this helps!</p>
<p>Other users got the main sections. One thing I wanted to add was to us the Problem-Solution-Result format.</p>
<p>The sections from my resume are:</p>
<p>Objective (2% - Just 1 line)
Education (13%)
Experience (40%)
Activities (15%)
Projects (25%)
Skills (5% - Just 3 lines)</p>
<p>There my name, phone, address (I don’t know why I bother with it but I have it) and email at the top.</p>
<p>Objective? That’s old school. Most modern resumes I see don’t have that anymore, or maybe people have stopped using them. I dunno.</p>
<p>Education, Experience, Leadership/Activities, Honors, and Skills are what come to mind from most resumes that I see nowadays.</p>
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<p>It’s fairly high on the list of things to go when I need more room. I’ve been told by multiple people to put it, and by multiple people not to put it. It’s pretty contentious as far as resume advice goes.</p>