Thank you for your interest in the career development opportunities with INROADS! INROADS gives you the skills and access you need to land a paid internship at a top company. You will be ready to contribute from Day 1!
The quality of your résumé is one of the most important factors for your success in securing corporate interviews and achieving an internship. Below are some general standards to which you should adhere as you create or edit your résumé. Your résumé DOES NOT need to exactly model this format, but should be of similar quality.
If you have questions about your résumé, please follow up with your assigned Operations Coordinator.
IMPORTANT TIPS - Your INROADS résumé should:
Be just one page
Employers may be reviewing dozens or even hundreds of résumés and will not spend time reading through pages of content.
Be free of typos and errors
Do not only rely on spell check. A listing could be a word, but not the word you intended.
Have appropriate contact information displayed
Be sure to list an email address you check regularly and the most appropriate phone number or numbers.
Be in a clear, neat format
Use standard fonts, average range of type size, evenly formatted spacing and avoid overuse of bold, italics and underlining.
Indicate that you are an INROADS Candidate
See examples of how to incorporate this into your objective statement. If you do not have an objective statement, you may list INROADS Internship Candidate in your activities section.
List relevant information
Your résumé is not an activity list of everything you have done; it should capture important highlights that are most closely related to the type of opportunity you are seeking. For example, if you are interested in sales, you might include activities and statements that show you raised money for a club, sold tickets or were treasurer.
Utilize accomplishment and responsibility statements
Where possible, list statements under your activities that show the scope of your responsibilities and attempt to qualify or quantify your accomplishments --numbers, percentages, ranges, names of programs/software, dollar amounts can all help to do this.
Be accurate and honest
The goal of your résumé is to present the best you possible, but not to misrepresent your experiences and skills. If you would have trouble discussing something on your résumé if asked a question about it in an interview, you should probably not include it.
Keep in mind, your résumé is a living document; it will grow and change as you do. These suggestions should get you off to a great start in creating or editing your résumé! If there are other suggestions that will help represent you as a competitive candidate, we will follow up with you. (SAMPLE Résumé WITHOUT WORK HISTORY)
Name
xxxxxxx@xxx.edu
|Current Address: |Permanent Address: |
|xxxx Terrace |xxxx Riviera Shore Court |
|Gainesville, Florida 32608 |Orlando, Florida 32817 |
|Mobile: (xxx) xxx-xxxx |Phone: (xxx) xxx-xxxx |
OBJECTIVE: Seeking a challenging INROADS Internship that will allow me to utilize my leadership and communications skills while benefitting the company
EDUCATION: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Bachelor of Arts in Finance Minor in Mass Communications GPA 3.03/4.0 Expected graduation date: May 2012
|Marketing |Managerial Economics |Principles of Finance |
|Managerial Accounting |Management |Legal Environment of Business |
|Statistics for Business |Financial Accounting |Operations Management |
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES:
• Winter Spring High School Leadership Program November 2008-June 2009 o Head of multicultural committee o Member of Look At Me Now’s Karaoke Committee; raised $1,300 o Currently leading the Car Show project
• Business Professionals of America June 2007-June 2009 o Attended regional conference o Assisted with publicity for in-school events o Gained exposure to various business fields and built networking skills
• Mentor at Indian Trails Middle School September 2006-May 2007 o Worked with a group of 9 students in grades 7-8 o Selected from a pool of 100 applicants o Helped students in academics and personal decision making
HONORS/AWARDS:
• Founding member of an honors club for minorities called Alpha Beta Epsilon July 2007-Present o Recruited staff advisor and 27 student members in first semester o Implemented a peer tutoring program for middle school students o Organized weekly study groups to support high academic performance for club members
• Passed AP American History and AP English exams and received 6 college credits Spring 2007
• School Advisory Council June 2006-December 2007 o Nominated by peers and staff o Responsible for representing student body at meetings
TECHNICAL/NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS • Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Internet • Basic knowledge in Microsoft Access, Flash Software, Pascal, and Java
Effective Sentence Openers (Action Verbs)
Absorbed
Accelerated
Accomplished
Achieved
Acted
Added
Administered
Advised
Analyzed
Applied
Appraised
Approved
Arranged
Assembled
Assisted
Attained
Attended
Automated
Balanced
Bought
Budgeted
Built
Carried
Catalogued
Centralized
Changed
Checked
Clarified
Classified
Cleaned
Closed
Coached
Collaborated
Collated
Compared
Compelled
Composed
Computed
Conceived
Condensed
Conducted
Controlled
Converted
Conveyed
Coordinated
Corrected
Corresponded
Counseled
Created
Cut back on
Dealt with
Decided
Decreased
Defined
Delegated
Delivered
Demonstrated
Designed
Determined
Developed
Devised
Diagnosed
Differentiated
Directed
Discovered
Disseminated
Distributed
Diverted
Doubled
Drove
Duplicated
Earned
Edited
Eliminated
Employed
Enabled
Enacted
Encouraged
Enlarged
Enlisted
Ensured
Equipped
Established
Evaluated
Examined
Executed
Exceeded
Expanded
Expedited
Experimented
Extracted
Facilitated
Fed
Finalized
Financed
Folded
Forecasted
Formulated
Fostered
Found
Furnished
Generated
Grouped
Guaranteed
Guided
Handled
Headed
Helped
Hired
Hypothesized
Identified
Illustrated
Implemented
Improved
Incorporated
Increased
Informed
Influenced
Initiated
Innovated
Inspected
Installed
Instituted
Instructed
Integrated
Interpreted
Interviewed
Introduced
Invented
Invested
Investigated
Judged
Launched
Learned
Lectured
Led
Leveraged
Listed
Located
Logged
Lowered
Maintained
Managed
Marketed
Masterminded
Measured
Mediated
Merged
Minimized
Moderated
Modernized
Modified
Motivated
Negotiated
Notified
Numbered
Observed
Obtained
Opened
Operated
Organized
Originated
Outlined
Overhauled
Oversaw
Packaged
Patrolled
Performed
Persuaded
Photocopied
Picked out
Pioneered
Planned
Positioned
Posted
Prepared
Presented
Presided
Processed
Produced
Programmed
Promoted
Provided
Published
Purchased
Qualified
Questioned
Recommended
Recorded
Recruited
Rectified
Redesigned
Reduced
Refined
Related
Repositioned
Reorganized
Reported
Researched
Reshaped
Resolved
Responded
Restored
Restructured
Reviewed
Revised
Scheduled
Searched
Secured
Selected
Served
Set up
Shipped
Showed
Sold
Solved
Sorted
Staffed
Standardized
Structured
Studied
Summarized
Supervised
Surpassed
Synthesized
Tabulated
Taught
Traced
Tracked
Traded
Trained
Transferred
Translated
Trimmed
Tripled
Turned around
Uncovered
Undertook
Unified
Updated
Upgraded
Used
Utilized
Verbalized
Verified
Withdrew
Withstood
Won
Wrote
EXAMPLES of ACTION VERBS & DESCRIPTIVE WORDS
Here is a sample of some action verbs and descriptive words that you might consider using on your résumé.
For more ideas, view the thesaurus option available in most word processing programs.
