The fresher resume format
- Name and contact details
- Profile: two lines on your degree and the job you want
- Education (first, because it is your strongest section)
- Internships, projects or part-time work
- Activities and achievements
- Skills and languages
Open the fresher resume templates; they already follow this order.
Turn student life into experience
Internships, final-year projects, society roles, event organising, tutoring, volunteering, freelancing and part-time jobs all count. Write them like jobs: what you did and one result. "Organised a careers fair for 400 students with 12 companies."
Skills freshers can honestly list
MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint; languages; programming or design tools you used in projects; report writing; presentations; teamwork. Only list what you can talk about in an interview.
Mistakes to avoid
- Long career objectives: keep the profile to two lines.
- Unprofessional email addresses.
- Spelling mistakes: read it twice.
- Two pages: one is enough.