Resume Writing for High School Students
Resume & Cover Letter Templates
- Grades
- Grades 8–12
- Formats
- Google Slides, PDF, PowerPoint
- Pages
- 27
- Answer keys
- Included
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Help high school students write a strong first resume, even with little or no job experience. In this resume writing unit, students learn what a resume is and what goes in each section, discover that babysitting, volunteering, clubs and projects all count as experience, turn plain duties into accomplishment bullets with 60 action verbs, study two annotated sample resumes, fix a resume full of common mistakes, and build their own resume, cover letter and references page.
What's included
- Teacher guide with 6-day pacing, materials and differentiation (support, on level, challenge)
- Standards page and contents
- What Is a Resume? (resume vs. application vs. cover letter, when you need one, do's and don'ts)
- Resume Sections: 8 sections with examples
- Experience Counts! 9 kinds of experience for teens with sample resume lines
- 2-page resume brainstorm
- 60 action verbs in 6 categories
- Duties into Accomplishments: bullet formula, before-and-after examples and practice
- Make It Stronger: strong vs. weak bullets and rewrites
- 2 annotated sample resumes (a first resume and a resume with part-time jobs)
- Fix This Resume: find and fix 14 mistakes, with an error log
- 3 fill-in resume templates (classic, skills first, two column)
- Cover letter structure lesson, annotated example and fill-in template
- References page lesson, template and tracker
- Peer review checklist (14 items)
- Resume Check quiz
- Answer keys with sample answers
How to use it
Use it in career readiness, CTE, English, advisory or senior seminar over about 6 class periods. Students can draft on paper with the templates or type their final resume. Print and go.
Skills practiced
Resume sectionsaction verbsaccomplishment bulletsediting and proofreadingformattingcover lettersreferencespeer feedback
