{"id":31127,"date":"2020-02-12T11:56:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T16:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backtobasicslearning.com\/2020\/02\/a-resume-during-high-school-yes\/"},"modified":"2020-02-25T14:35:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T19:35:20","slug":"a-resume-during-high-school-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/a-resume-during-high-school-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"A resume during high school? Yes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-531819\" alt=\"Young female student taking notes for her study\" src=\"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/s5_412745e7c440b51c8f04bd9da3eb5725.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>Think resumes are just for adults and college graduates seeking employment? Actually, it&#8217;s a great idea to make your first resume in high school, starting in ninth or tenth grade. Surprised?<\/p>\n<p>Keeping an up-to-date resume is an excellent way to track your accomplishments, projects, honors and activities. If you keep a current resume, when it comes time to start filling out college applications, you won&#8217;t have to try and remember everything you&#8217;ve done since your freshman year. It will all be right there!<\/p>\n<p>Resumes can also be a valuable resource to give a teacher, mentor or counselor who has agreed to write a letter of recommendation for you. Might as well make it easy for them to gush about you! And finally, a resume is sometimes submitted as a stand-alone piece of information when applying for colleges and\/or scholarships. If you start working on your resume early and keep it current, you are less likely to leave out important information.<\/p>\n<p>What should you include in a high school resume? You&#8217;ll want to include your name, address, phone number and e-mail address. You could include a one-sentence summary of your primary goal(s). In addition, you&#8217;ll want a section on your high school education, including your GPA. Highlight any special or advanced coursework and any AP tests successfully completed.<\/p>\n<p>If you worked any part-time jobs in high school, you&#8217;ll want a section on employment as well as sections on clubs\/activities, achievements\/awards\/honors and if applicable, major projects and skills\/hobbies. If you have any leadership skills, it&#8217;s important to include those. Keep the resume to a length of one page, avoid large amounts of white space and make sure it&#8217;s been proofread. Update regularly as you progress toward your senior year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">It&#8217;s never too early to start planning your future, and having a resume ready to go when you start filling out those college and scholarship applications could help relieve some of the stress of the process.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A resume during high school? Yes! Here&#8217;s why and how to create one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":30078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31172,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31127\/revisions\/31172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backtobasicslearning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}