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The document provides guidance for teens on creating an effective resume to secure job interviews. It emphasizes including informal work experience, extracurricular activities, and achievements, while promoting a positive attitude and work ethic. Additionally, it outlines the structure of a resume, including sections for skills, education, work experience, volunteer service, and interests.

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TeenJobResources_CreatingAResumeForTeens

The document provides guidance for teens on creating an effective resume to secure job interviews. It emphasizes including informal work experience, extracurricular activities, and achievements, while promoting a positive attitude and work ethic. Additionally, it outlines the structure of a resume, including sections for skills, education, work experience, volunteer service, and interests.

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Creating a Resume for Teens

A resume is a document that allows you to market yourself to employers. The primary
purpose of a resume is to obtain an interview. Resumes are clear, organized, & specific.

TIPS:
Include informal work experience
If you have formal paid work experience, certainly include it. Otherwise, you can include
informal work like babysitting, pet sitting, lawn mowing, shoveling snow, or anything else you’ve
done to earn money.

Include all your activities


Since most high school students haven’t held a lot of jobs, it is important to draw upon all
aspects of your life which show you have the right character, work ethic, skills, and personality to
succeed in a job. Mention your extracurricular activities, volunteer work, academics, and
athletic pursuits. If you’ve held any sort of leadership positions in these roles (such as Team
Captain or Secretary of a club), be sure to note this. For each item, include a bulleted list of your
responsibilities and accomplishments.

Promote your attitude and performance


Employers will be most interested in your work habits and attitude. They don’t expect you to
have a lot of experience. If you have perfect or near perfect attendance and are punctual for
school and other commitments, you might include language like “Compiled a perfect (or near
perfect) record for attendance” when describing an experience. If supervisors, teachers, or
coaches have recognized you for a positive attitude or outstanding service, mention it in your
description of the activity.

Mention your achievements


Employers look for staff who have a history of making positive contributions. Review each of your
experiences and ask yourself if there are achievements in class, clubs, sports, or the workplace
that you can include. If so, use verbs like enhanced, reorganized, increased, improved, initiated,
upgraded, or expanded to show what you accomplished. Include any challenging advanced
academic projects since this shows employers that you are intelligent and a hard worker.

Power verbs
Use power verbs to describe your experience and skills. Adding these will make your resume
more compelling and powerful. Below is a list of a few examples:

acted commissioned empowered initiated screened


accomplished committed enabled innovated scrutinized
achieved compared endorsed obtained secured
acquired composed engineered negotiated served
administered conceptualized enhanced procured serviced
advanced concluded enlarged produced shaped
advised controlled handled provided supervised
aided developed hired pursued supplied
alleviated directed improvised raised surpassed
classified elevated increased realized utilized
collaborated employed influenced recorded wrote
Anatomy of a Resume

Your Name
Your street address
Your city, state, and zip
Your phone number
Your email address

SKILLS PROFILE In this section you may include any special skills that would be relevant to
the position for which you are applying. This could be a computer skills
where you list all the software you have experience with. You could also
list any languages you speak in this section

EDUCATION In this section list the high schools you have attended, including the city
and state it is located in, the years you have attended and what year you
plan on graduating. If you have already graduated, write “High School
Diploma” and the month and year you graduated after the name of your
school.

Also include any awards or honors (like the Honor Roll or National Honor
Society) you have earned. If you have a strong GPA, you can include that
as well

WORK This section gives the employer a chance to see the type of work
EXPERIENCE experience you have. List your positions from most recent to least recent.
When listing your positions, include the employer’s name and location
(city and state), your position title, and the dates you worked there.
Below, create 3-5 bullets describing the responsibilities you had in that
position and any achievements you made (ex: Employee of the Month)

VOLUNTEER List any volunteer or unpaid work experience in this section


SERVICE

INTERESTS & Extracurricular activities that you participate in, like organized sports or
ACTIVITIES Drama Club can be listed in this section

Remember… Other tips:


• Be sure to proofread your resume • If an employer asks for
every time you change it references, include them as a
• Have a friend or family member separate attachment
look it over for feedback • Do not copy and paste cover
• When deciding what to include in letters and resumes into emails.
your resume, ask yourself: “Would Include them as attachments
an employer be interested in this • Make sure your cover letter and
information?” and “Is this relevant resume match - use the same
to the position I’m applying for?” font, size, color, and paper

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