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Resume and Cover Letter
Writing for Internships
Career Document Series
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Basic Information
• Your name as you want to be referred to professionally (Jon Baker, Jonathon Baker, Jon E. Baker).
• Current address and phone number with area code (where you can be reached now!).
• Permanent address and phone number with area code (if you will be in different locations during your search, an address
of someone who will always know how to reach you. This could be a family address).
Objective
A clear objective is critical to resume development because it helps focus and select information. Although you may wish to
make your objective broad, do not make it so broad that it says nothing. If you are pursuing employment in more than one
field, simply create different objectives for each field. Your career objective should answer this question, “What do I want to
do?” Is it for graduate school, a part-time job, an internship, a professional position after graduation, a scholarship? Make
sure your objective makes this clear.
Some sample objectives are:
• Acceptance to College Student Personnel Administration graduate program
• Internship position to explore career options in the health field
• Summer job in the field of physical therapy
Educational Background (for each degree-conferring institution)
Institution
City, State
Graduation date
Degree or certification obtained
Major/Minor/ emphasis area
Any areas of Concentration
GPA (if proud of it)
Additional certification or licensure
Relevant coursework
Specialized instruction
Experience
This part of your resume may include several sections such as work experience, volunteer experience (internships, community
service, and student teaching), campus leadership, and any area in which you may have significant experience, such as
publications/ presentations or knowledge. You may divide this between Career Related Experience and Other Work
Experience.
Briefly describe for each position:
• Job title, dates, organization name, location
• List your responsibilities for each position using a variety of ACTION WORDS to describe situations and
achievements
• Unless necessary, avoid little words in description such as “a”, “an”, “the.”
• Include scope of responsibility such as: Trained eight student workers
• Concretely outline any outstanding results such as: Developed new computerized customer listing using MS
Access software to improve output by ten percent
Honors/Activities/Leadership/Special Skills
Front load these with those most important or most pertinent to your objective (career goal). You may want to use specific
headings such as professional organizations, computer skills, and leadership positions. Include any honors, scholarships or
recognition awards that you have received. If you were actively involved in any clubs, teams or committees while in college,
those may be included also. The key to this section is keeping it brief.
Interests
The trend is to keep away from any extraneous information that does not clearly connect to your career goal. However, if you
are applying for a position in which you have experience through a hobby or leisure activity, you may want to consider adding
it to your resume. For example, if you are applying for a forest ranger position and you enjoy hiking in the wilderness, include
it by stating: Skilled in all-terrain hiking, camping and navigating. What you need to ask yourself is, “Will this information help