Intern Resume Sample

 Selecting a resume template can be tricky. Go for such a resume template design that looks good and feels readable at the same time.

• Your resume should ideally be contained in 1 page only and can be stretched to a maximum of 2 pages. Making your resume unnecessarily lengthy is a big NO.
• Write your resume in a professional font style such as Times New Roman with a font size of 10 to 12.
• However, do not indulge in using any special fonts, graphic designs or colouring in the template of your resume.

Follow these steps if your resume is 3 to 4 pages long. If your resume is longer than that, then probably you’d need to make a new one. 

• Remove less important words from your resume. Having too many descriptive and lengthy words will not only increase the length of the resume, but will make your resume unattractive and boring.
• Remove unnecessary content which is irrelevant to your job description. Putting up details on how you were as a child or what you did during the summer vacation is not going to help you get a real job. 
• Frame your sentences carefully so that your lengthy sentences are cut down to half. Instead of writing “sales went up from $20,000 to $80,000”, write “sales went up 200%” . If you've previously written “the largest bank of Canada” or “the financial status of the company”, modify your sentences to “Canada’s largest bank” or “the company’s financial status”. In this way, your resume length will shorten.
  
   

If you want to make your internship resume a work of art, keep the following points in mind before you start making your internship resume –  

• Your resume should have plenty of white space. Don’t make your resume appear clumsy by letting one heading climb onto the next one.
• Do not make any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors in your resume. A spelling or a grammatical error is the last thing that an employer would want to see in a potential intern's resume.
• Break your lengthy paragraphs with the help of bulletins so that employers don’t get lost while reading through the resume. 
• Start writing the numeric values instead of spelling out the numbers. For example, write 20% instead of writing twenty percent. 

• Contact information
• Objective
• Education
• Leadership and Volunteering Experience / Position of Responsibility
• Professional Development & Certifications
• Awards and Honours
• Projects
• Skills

Contact Information

Along with your name, give your phone number, a valid email address, your present residing city and state. Please mention these details on the top of your resume so that the recruitment members can easily see it. However, do not go into detail describing your age, city where you’re originating from, your nationality or religion . These are irrelevant information that the interviewer would not want to see.

Also, avoid giving a photograph or a signature of yourself in the resume. No matter how good you think you look, it’s a botheration for the interviewers to see your smiling face on top of your resume. The company will hire you if you fit their job profile, not on the basis of how you look on your Facebook profile. 

Objective

An objective is a two to three line description where you talk about the skills you’re most confident about, reasons for applying to the internship and where do you see yourself in 5 or 10 years. Write your resume strictly in third person because making your resume unnecessarily can make your interviewer a little uncomfortable. For example, “Award winning college business graduate, seeks internship opportunity with a top company” is an ideal objective for an intern's resume.

However, do not make the objective too long and do not provide an overall description of the internship you’re applying for. 

Educational Qualification

Follow a reverse chronological format while listing down your educational history . For example, go from the most to the least recent. Give a brief mention of the subject related awards, leadership positions, relevant course works and student foreign exchange program (if any).

However, avoid giving your CGPA scores you had got in your 8th or 9th standard and TOEFL score too.  

Leadership & Volunteering Experience/ Position of Responsibility

Try to quantify and add accomplishments along with your position of responsibility during college days. For example, “Member of Finance and Investment cell”.

Professional Development and Certificates

You can include the professional certificate courses which you did both online and offline, relevant to your internship profile.

Awards and Honours

You can include the awards you got in your college or during a professional course, relevant to your internship profile.

Projects

You can list down the projects you were a part of during your college days or while doing a professional course, relevant to your internship profile.

Skills

Fix your focus on highlighting your hard skills such as your proficiency in a foreign language (if you know any), your typing speed, machine operations and computer programming that you may know. However, soft skills or interpersonal skills such as time management, leadership, team work, communications are not to be mentioned separately. 

Languages

Don’t give this section if you do not know any foreign languages. Knowing basic Hindi and English languages do not require any specific mentioning on your resume.

• Do not make any spelling mistakes or any grammatical errors. Such seemingly trivial mistakes can literally make you lose the job even if you fit the job profile perfectly.
• No personal information should be shared in your resume other than your name, contact details including your phone number, email address, your current city and state.
• Do not provide information like your religion, caste, political affiliations and beliefs, and nationality in your resume.

• Do not give a photograph and a signature in the resume.

• When you are listing your educational history and work experience in your resume, make sure you put the latest one first and the older ones later.