College Student Resume Example for an Internship

The example

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What makes this example work

1. The internship shows what changed. Each bullet under the internship has a task and a result: guides written, tickets closed, a spreadsheet kept current. None of them says "assisted with".
2. Tutoring is treated as real work. We would keep a student job that involved responsibility for other people. The one-page guide is a concrete thing the reader can picture.
3. The project says who used it. A course project reads as work when it names the team size and the people who used the result. In our view, "used by a campus club" is the line that turns a class assignment into evidence.
4. Coursework is labelled, not inflated. SQL and Tableau are marked as coursework. We would label them: an honest label costs nothing and spares you an awkward question in an interview.
5. The summary says which internship. It names the kind of internship wanted, data or business analysis, so the reader knows how to file it.

From "assisted" to a task and a result

A bullet that starts with "assisted" or "helped" and stops tells the reader little. Say what you did and what was different afterward.

Weaker: Assisted the IT team with various support tasks.

Stronger: Wrote four how-to guides for the most repeated requests; the team now links to them in new-hire emails.

The stronger line names a thing that exists because of you. The weaker one could be copied onto any resume and nobody could check it.

What to put on a student resume, in this order

• Experience that involved a task someone else depended on, even if short or part-time.
• Projects that had real users or a real deadline, with team size and what you personally built.
• Education: your school, degree, expected graduation date and, if it helps you, GPA.
• Skills you can back up, with coursework marked as coursework.
• Leadership or campus roles only if you can say what you actually did in them.

Leave out high school unless it is your only education, and drop clubs you cannot describe in one concrete line.

Mistakes to avoid

• Listing every course. Mention two or three only if the internship is about those topics.
• Using the same resume for every application. Change the summary and the order of skills to match the posting.
• Describing group projects as if you did everything. Say how big the team was and which part was yours.
• Burying the dates. An internship can be seasonal, so put the months, such as June 2026 to August 2026, where a reader can see them.

Skills to consider, if they are true for you

Pick the tools the internship asks for, and mark each as coursework, project or work.

• SQL
• Excel
• Python
• A dashboard tool such as Tableau or Power BI
• Help-desk or ticketing software
• Technical writing
• Presenting findings to a small group

Write yours

1. Download the example and open it in Word, or copy its structure into your own file.
2. Replace every line with something you did, keeping the pattern: what you did, for whom, and one detail.
3. Delete anything you cannot back up in an interview, then ask someone to read it.

When your own version is ready, scan it in the CV Lab to see how it reads.

Which file type should you send? The one the posting asks for. Our guide to applicant tracking systems sets out what three vendors say about PDF and Word.

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