High School vs Employment Resume (What's the Difference?)
High School vs Employment Resume
Why Does a high school student need a Resume?
Aside for the obvious reason of employment search, there’s an even better reason to have a winning high school resume!
A High School resume sets you apart from the tens of thousands of other college applicants. (The University of Michigan alone received more than 50,000 applications per year, and accepts only about 15,000.)
But how is a high school to college resume different from an employment resume?
There are similarities and differences between an employment resume and a high school to college resume.
Both have these things in common. They…
- Contain your contact information at the top
- List your employment history
- Attempt to keep it to one side of one page (with a few exceptions)
- Lists items in reverse chronological order
And that's about it.
Similarities are few. Differences are many.:
They each serve a different purpose:
The Purpose of the Employment Resume is to:
- Match your...
Does a high school student need a resume? In a word, YES!
Many people are aware that a high school student needs a resume for employment. But there are two different types of resumes. The high school to college resume and the employment resume. You will need one or both. This LINK tells you the difference.
For those who are homeschooled, we homeschool parents tend to think everything goes on the transcript. Not so fast!
Be careful not to put everything your high school student does on the transcript.
Why not?
Because the purpose of the ‘transcript’ is to demonstrate the student's academic ability. Only that which is learned and graded is placed on the transcript. The purpose of the resume covers everything else: community service, activities, leadership, awards, honors, employment, ….
Parents who choose to put everything on the transcript are doing their students a disservice, including athletic activities that they want to use as PE. Here’s why this is a bad idea.:
PE in most states is a very...
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