How to Write Better (Lots of Templates Included!) – Transizion (2023)

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A high school resume is an organized, professional-looking document. List your education, achievements, qualifications, work experience, skills, and awards.

Some colleges require a resumerecordings, but all internships and jobs require at least a resume upon application. You can even submit a scholarship resume.

• The resume tips in this article can be used for your applications, internships, and jobs.

If you're in high school, you should start making your resume right now. This will make it much easier to update your resume for years to come.

You use a CV for the rest of your work.professional life. make sure of thatupdate thiswith relevant information and new experiences.

Let's start with some frequently asked student questions about high school curricula.

How important is a high school curriculum for college applications?

Your resume usually does not lead to an outright acceptance or rejection.

But a well-formatted high school resume can help you beg to get accepted.

Similarly, a poorly formatted resume with lots of grammatical errors and lies can hurt your chances of getting accepted.

• Because? Admissions officers want to admit studentsshow curiosityto the University. A student who submits a sloppy resume shows a lack of interest in her application.

graduation Company,BS/MD, and honors programs often request a high school curriculum along with the application.

• In this case, the resume is more important than usual, so take your time and format it correctly (scroll down for more information on how to format a resume).

Your application, essays, and transcripts are more important for college applications than a resume. That being said, if you are submitting a resume or if the university asks you to,he mustsubmit a high-quality resume.

Is there an official curriculum template for high school?

No. A high school curriculum comes in many forms, so you are spoiled for choice.

For high school students applying to college, internships, and jobs, you should follow the best approaches to high school curricula.

What is the best approach to writing a resume?

The best resumes areconcise and full of substantive information.

Remember that admissions officers and hiring managers are busy people, so include vital information on your high school resume while outlining your accomplishments succinctly and concisely.

Finally, your resume must be properly formatted. A well-formatted CV is easy on the eyes and will therefore be much more enjoyable to read.

• Admissions officers and hiring managers pay more attention to resumes that are easy to scan and absorb.

Remember these four things when writing your high school resume:

• The writing should be concise.
• All relevant information must be included
• The curriculum format should make reading easy and enjoyable; anything that looks sloppy will reflect badly on you
• Try to keep the resume as close to one page as possible. More than one page is fine for high school resumes, but it will be frowned upon later in your career.

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Should I use an online template for my resume?

As a resume specialist, I highly recommend it.preventcopy and paste templates online.

Because? Every student is different. What might work for someone else may not work for you.

• Some students have a strong record of academic achievement but few extracurricular activities.
• Some are business oriented while others are liberal arts oriented.

This means that you have to format your resume from scratch. Not only do you create a resume tailored to your needs, but you alsodevelop curriculum skillsthat you will keep forever. These skills will come in handy in college and beyond.

How do I format my high school resume?

You should follow some general rules when formatting your resume for college admissions, internships, and jobs.

• Use Times New Roman or Cambria on your resume. These fonts are easy to read.
• The normal font should be size 10-12. Titles must be at least two points larger than the font.
• Separate each section (Contact, Education, Experience, Skills) with an underlined or bold heading.
• Keep margins to 1 inch. If you need to shorten the length of the resume, 0.5 margins are fine. Anything less has a price in the eyes.

What information should my high school resume include?

Basically, the high school curriculum should include the following:

• Contact information: Name, email, telephone number, address
• Education: name of high school, GPA, test scores, class rank, courses, achievements, and awards
• Experience: Work, volunteering and extracurricular degrees
• Skills: computer literacy, foreign languages

How do I format each section?

Now you know what makes a good resume. Now let's dive into the details.

This is how each section is formatted.

Name

Your name should be in bold at the top center. The font size may match your titles or your name may be a point or two larger than your titles.

Contact

This information will end up directly below your name.

Include the name you used on your college application.

Put your mobile number under your name andprofessionalEmail address.

Correctly format your mobile phone. This means you have two options:

1. There are parentheses around your area code and a hyphen after the first three digits of the number. Example - (536) 276-6690
2. Without brackets, but with hyphens after the area code and the first three digits of the number. Example: 536-276-6690

If your current email address[email protected], it's time to create a new email. Use Gmail because it's secure and works with the G Suite platform, which you'll be using a lot in college.

A secure email is an email that contains your first initial, last name, and the last two digits of your year of birth. For example:

[email protected]

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Finally, you can enter your home address if you want. It is not mandatory to indicate your residential address.

The name and contact sections look like this:

Todd Gurley
[email protected]| (536) 276-6690
30 McVay Avenue Los Angeles, CA

Meta

You don't need an objective section. Most goals are common sense. They are clichés that do not add value to the document.

Education

The educational part is easy as long as you know your academic information. Follow these steps.

Indicate your school, place and date of graduation:

Black Horn High School, Bastion Ridge, South Carolina (Graduation: June 2021)

Below that, put your GPA (unweighted/weighted) and your best test scores:

GPA: 3.45/4.2 | SATURDAY: 1350 | SAT II Math: 710 | SAT II American History: 680

Then list your awards just below your GPA. Under your awards, write "Coursework:" and enter your highest and most prestigious qualifications. If you're applying for an industry-specific internship or job posting, you can post related courses.

Course: AP Chemistry, AP Biology, APworld history, Spanish awards

If you're a freshman, sophomore, or junior, you can also add a "Scheduled Course" section where you add courses you hope to take next year.

Also, students in all classes must add an "Awards" section. List your prices under "Coursework/Designed Coursework". See what it would look like:

Awards: AP Scholar, FRC National Champion, National Honor Society, Musk Beneipient of Excellence in Robotics, DECA Achievement Award

When you're done with this section, it should look like this:

Black Horn High School, Bastion Ridge, South Carolina (Graduation: June 2021)
GPA: 3.45/4.2 | SATURDAY: 1350 | SAT II Math: 710 | SAT II American History: 680

Course: AP Chemistry, AP Biology, APworld history, Spanish awards
Awards: AP Scholar, FRC National Champion, National Honor Society, Musk Beneipient of Excellence in Robotics, DECA Achievement Award

Experience

Now comes the fun part. The quality of this section determines the overall strength of your resume. There are several critical tips to remember before diving into this section.

First, your experience titles need to be formatted uniformly.

• Keep required items in italics.
• Don't put everything in bold for emphasis.
• You must have two or more markers per rating.
• When writing the location ("city, state") of your rating, please make sure it is formatted in the same format as your "city, state" in your contact section. So if the contact section has "Washington, DC", don't add periods under "DC" in the "Experience" section. In general, beware of inconsistencies when adding periods to state abbreviations: stick to one version: with or without periods.

Second, your bookmarks must be well formatted.

• All markers must be fragments beginning withverbs. You do not write in the first person (for example, "I cooperated").
• Bullets cannot end in periods.
• Choose specific action verbs. Try to avoid using weak action verbs like "it worked," "helped," and "helped," among others.
• Action verbs should be in the past tense (for example, "collaborated" and "managed"), unless you are describing an experience you are now a part of. Then,your action verbsmust be in the first person singular (for example, "cooperate" and "manage").
• Your most recently held positions should be at the top. This means that you keep the reverse chronological order.
• To combine similar activities in one bullet, separate them with a semicolon.

Third, your bookmarks may include:

• summer job
• Voluntary work
• community service
• Extracurricular activities
• Stadiums
• Occasional jobs (nanny)

Fourth, the points must be specific. Try to tell a story. Add results.

• Include numbers, figures, percentages or anything else that demonstrates your ability to get results.
• If you're having trouble finding details to include, think about the who, what, when, where, why, and how of your roles.
• Remember that the admissions officer and hiring manager don't know who you are, so it's their job to paint a picture of your qualifications.

Here are great examples of bullet points on high school resumes:

Managed four team members through two-hour shifts, resulting in 100% customer satisfaction

I made 100 cards for cancer patients in a 30 day period in collaboration with the supervisor

She made sandwiches five days a week, easing customers' worries during peak lunch hours; slicer, panini press and cash register used to facilitate customer requests

Supervises 20 students per swim session; instructed three students during daily individual swim lessons, resulting in a 100% pass rate

Advice: You can use these markers in the extracurricular activities section of your college application.

That makes sense? Good. Let's see what a properly formatted experience section looks like.

1. Write the name of the workplace or club on the top line.
2. Write the location next to it.
3. Write your position in italics on the next line.
4. Next to your job title, write the date (month year – month year) you worked at that job. Writing all month is not important; what matters is following the format for all your experiences.
5. Markers are below position and date.

For example:

SM Pediatrics and Healthcare, Portland, Oregón
apprentice, September 2018 to December 2018

• Scheduling and coordination of daily appointments at the reception for more than 50 patients
• Simple documentation of insurance and co-pays to ensure patient satisfaction
• Created a new filing system for office workers, resulting in 30 minutes of time savings; Trello integrated into office project management with tutorials on the top platform

Repeat this several times until you have covered all your relevant activities, work experiences, and obligations.

Skills

This section generally focuses on two elements: the computer and language.

Next to "Computer:," list the things you can do well with, you guessed it, a computer. This can range from coding to graphic design, PowerPoint, CMS, and software.

In the computer section, enter "Language:" if you know foreign languages. Make a list naming the language and indicate in parentheses the level at which you know the language. There are four levels of foreign language:

• Native or bilingual - You can read and write fluently; you can do business and live abroad with your skills
• Professional job skills: You can do business in the language, but you don't know all the cultural norms.
• Limited job skills: can read and write here and there, but couldn't do business fluently.
• Elementary Ability: He can barely read or write, but can occasionally carry on a conversation.

In total, the "Skills" section should look like this:

Computador: HTML, SQL, Java, WordPress, Wix, Python, PHP, Adobe Photoshop, MS Office Suite, Wave, Trello, Slack, Quickbooks, MailChimp, Stripe, PayPal
Language: Spanish [professional occupation]], French [basic proficiency]

Save and send CV

Always keep your professional documents (cover letter, resume, sample transcripts) in PDF. Name of the document [first name]_[last name]_[type of document]:

Todd_Gurley_Hervatten

Underscores are your safest bet when naming a resume. They make it easy to organize your resume so admissions officers and hiring managers don't lose sight of it.

Adelante: Curriculum Update

Over the years, you need to update your resume. Spend 30 minutes adding every few monthsexperiences and characteristicsthat will help you reach your next opportunity.

• As you get older, your resume will need to become more specialized.

This means you have more experience, tasks, qualifications, skills, andreferencesrelated to your industry and desired position.

Between your senior year of high school and college, your resume will look completely different.

• To make sure you update (or refresh!) your resumes correctly, use your smartphone's notepad to jot down your homework and job duties.
• If you've been asked to do something new, expandskills, or develop talents, you should add them to your resume.
• Your smartphone's notepad is a handy tool when you sit down to update your resume—it keeps your memory fresh and prevents you from writer's block.

As an exercise, spend a few minutes flipping through your notebook each year to witness yourprofessional growth.

Expert resume advice

Over time, we'll add expert resume tips below.

Here's what Vic Lindsay, Director of Student Life at Sweet Briar College, had to say about his resume:

Our role as educators is to equip students with the skills they need to succeed in their future endeavors. When making hiring decisions, I look for students who want to train and who are looking for more than just a salary.

When you're ready to enter the real world of work, your resume should focus on skills you've acquired and accomplishments that demonstrate leadership and initiative. Don't tell me what you were, tell me what you did. Show me where past executives have entrusted you with significant responsibilities and that you have lived up to those expectations.

High School Resume Templates – Great Examples

Lastly, if you're looking for good high school resume examples, I'll have your back.

Like I said before, it's not enough to just copy and paste your assets onto your resume.

Instead, take the time to review action verbs and bullet formation.

Make sure the grammar and data are correct.

These are their templates:

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You can also see them below. Enjoy!

High School Model Curriculum 1

Secondary School Model Curriculum 2

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High School Model Curriculum 3

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