Resume-Making Workshop for High School Students (Resume Resources & More) [PDF]

You can use all (or portions) of this 20-page interactive resume-making workshop with high school age students who are either making a resume for the first time or looking to improve their basic resume.

This product teaches students about the different parts of a resume (E.g., "Objective", "Education", "Experience") and specific resume-writing skills (E.g., using past tense in bullet-point descriptors, using active voice to indicate results and achievements rather than "doer" type language, etc.).

This product also contains a student-friendly simulation (which you can use, adapt, or disregard): Students will actually interface with an in-progress resume template after choosing one of three creative jobs for which to apply. You can see how part of the simulation works (as well as one of the three "mock" jobs ) in my product preview.

Here is the full table of contents for this product. It is very fun, interactive, and purposeful!

1) Page 1 - An ice-breaker asking students to strike power poses before an interview

2) Page 2 - What is a resume objective? (information and sentence starters to make one)

3) Page 3 - What are the different parts of a resume? (A master list of types of things students can put in the five different sections of a resume)

4) Page 4 - How should you order the parts of a resume? (Suggested approaches and advice for young adult audiences)

5) Pages 5-6 - Simulation instructions (asking students to apply to 1 of 3 mock jobs)

6) Page 7 - Full mock job ad (Fashion Designer)

7) Page 8 - Full mock job ad (Photo-journalism intern)

8) Page 9 - Full mock job ad (Summer Window Cupcake Maker)

9) Pages 10-13 - Example resume templates and designs

10) Pages 14-15 - One of my example past professional resumes for teaching (Students can see what they're building up to!)

11) Page 16 - 100 Resume Power Verbs (with recommendations and advice)

12) Pages 17-18 - Psychology Today article on power poses and selling oneself (to go along with the ice-breaker)

13) Page 19 - Additional "Resume Walk" Extension activity (where students craft a response to a typical "Walk me through your resume" question.

14) Page 20 - Resume-building simulation template (where students will make improvements to a resume-in-progress)