Resume Planning Worksheet
Build a strong resume from the start with this Resume Planning Page, a worksheet designed to help you organize your experiences before writing your resume. By brainstorming your education, skills, work experience, leadership, projects, honors, and career goals, you’ll be better prepared to create a targeted resume that highlights your strengths for internships, jobs, graduate school, and other opportunities.

How to use this resource:
- Resume planning worksheet for students preparing to write or update a resume
- Organize education, skills, work experience, internships, volunteer experience, leadership roles, honors, activities, certifications, and course projects
- Brainstorm career objectives and identify experiences relevant to your target job or internship
- Prepare content before building a resume or meeting with a career advisor
- Helpful for creating internship, job, graduate school, and professional resumes
- Encourages students to identify transferable skills and organize accomplishments in one place Ideal first step before formatting or tailoring a resume for a specific position
If you prefer to type your worksheet responses, utilize the block below and have your responses emailed to you.