writing is a critical representing a student activities outside the classroom throughout high school student makes it to their senior year and begins a college application process will make sure that the transcripts are good representation of the classes they've taken the grades they've got and the credits but students also need to have a record curricular activities that they've participated in any of our city or junior varsity sports as well as volunteer opportunities and so the resume becomes that document which they're able to record those experiences so it still has been asked me what's the different between like  for college and online a resume for seeking or for fun your job well the one of the main differences between a resume for your college application and a resume later once you're graduating from college and applying for a job is that your job job application resume will be much shorter typically a professional resume will just be one page and will be reflective upon the intern experiences that you've been having college  high school to pick with a typical high school to college application resume is around two pages and this gives the student the opportunity not only to know to types of experiences they've had but also go into a little bit of detail on what that experience provided to you the students whether it's a volunteer or next your current curricular activity there's a lot of very specific information especially specific to our region that if you're applying to a college outside however student all students have our high school have a now pants and family connection counts and so that is given to students very early in their freshman year and one of the key features to be on the family connection is that there is a resume builder and so as students make their way through high school they can input either an activity or a volunteer experience conference they went on to a competition things like that and they enter in the information into the resume builder and then when they get to their junior and senior year are able to print out a formatted resume and so that is one of the nice features of that builder is that it does format the resume for the student and as you have experiences or activities you input them as you as you complete those and i think then it makes the resume writing more manageable less stressful a lot of students do wait until the junior or senior year and even if you do that that is ok but to take some time to do that so you know take a couple weeks or a couple months to really reflect upon the activities since you've passed so you don't miss anything and you're not waiting to last second and trying to remember you know everything that you have done over high school and then are likely to forget something in addition to college you had mentioned college and job application another really important reason for creating a resume is for your teachers counselors administrators who you are requesting a letter of recommendation from and that provides those people with some extra information certainly they know you well in the classroom they know you well in school but they may not be aware of all of the great things that you do outside of school so that gives them that much more information to talk about to a personal level and the other the other question that about the types of information that you do on your resume you want to think about all the parts that you'll have to go into your college application so obviously your transcript is going to be detailed record of the classes you take in the grades you got and so there isn't a need to have to reflect upon those things in your resume because they will be in another part of your application so you really want to talk about the activities and experiences that you have in your free time so once you leave peters township high school at the end of the day and on the weekends what are those things that you're doing in your free time and you're organizing that whether it's an activity or a volunteer experience an internship a job what have you the resume good like for for college for a job ok so i think when it comes down to creating a good resume the general format that you want to have is that you w want organize your experiences in reverse chronological order so the number one bullet point under any heading should be that activity which you have done consistently through high school so something that you have you started in ninth grade and  are you're continuing to do in twelfth grade the next bullet point would be those things that you're doing most recently and sort of work your way backward and some of the the activity or the experience at that is at the bottom of the list of those things that you only did in ninth grade you want to make sure that you're consistent with your timeframe so if you are going to highlight things that you're doing either by the year for example ninth grade tenth grade eleventh grade or by calendar year sixteen seventeen fourteen just it is capturing your passion what you've been passionate about and interested in throughout high school so as long as you're capturing your interest level in those things then that's what's most important to you and that is what your resume is meant to capture  earlier i had mentioned that a resume is a good piece to highlight maybe some of the things that are are specific to in our case make very or peter's township and so if you are applying to school down south or out west and they how you were voted in or chosen or an elected position you might have within that organization ok people are very right for the resume does the west make deferred any of the states or any college on their on the by any college or any state they only differ in that the activities that this audience participate in for instance you may be very active in our everything king of the overall categories that you do want to capture in your resume you'll want to talk about honors or awards that you've gotten so perhaps if you've been on on a roll or if you are kept in or had a lead leadership position in the band or that type of group you want to talk about your extracurricular activities if you've been very active in versity sports that maybe it's section you may have r c or athletic involvement you want volunteer service you'll want work experience and then if you have space provides perhaps a reference those people that you have asked for a letter of recommendation from vying for a job there after your resume typically is about of pages long and so at that point the things that you are capturing are your are honors or awards that you've earned while you're in college you're n internship experience that you that you have had possibly any volunteer or part time jobs that you had so i think when you're in college you're not as you don't have as many of these smaller clubs that you will have in high school you're not necessarily flying on two or three varsity sports and so the focus of your resume is just much different it has a definitive career output in that and so that is typically what your resume is is apt to cover for taking time out his busy schedule to be here rip us now speaking with college about resume admission we want to thank you for your time at college you thank  my grandfather served in world war two spending time with him were the best memories of my life i became a physician because of my grandfather so i can help others like him i can't imagine working with better doctors or more dedicated staff fulfilling my life's mission with the help of my team and thanks to these veterans i'm proud to be a doctor in v a and proud to honor my grandfather every day search v a careers to find out more here something we bet you didn't know nearly half of all cancers can be prevented that's right half nearly fifty percent mostly by making small everyday changes in your diet and controlling your weight walking more eating 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it's worth noting for the long jab video of your sort of your passion or your commitment to an activity but typically your resume will have a more middle school center focus when you're ninety or tenth grade and you're applying for say n h s or an experience like that but typically as you move toward your college years you should be focused on the things that you accomplish in nine through twelve we never knew that so as early as students should we feel pressured to have a loaded resume or an if so why you shouldn't feel pressured so it is it's not that you know is your server reviewing the things that you do outside of school you really want to choose those activities that interested you're did in or that are representative of a career that you're pursuing or you just have a general interest in so that's why you should be involved in school and you know there are so many schools difficult when you're in class and so the things that you do outside of school are what provide the student with some fun of perhaps with some careered direction and so your resume is just a reflection of that and so you don't want to go out enjoying twenty clubs just for the sake of putting twenty clubs on a resume you want to really be able to get a true representation of your passion nine through twelve so are you recommending quality over engineering from here joy or would engineering be necessarily harder like on your resume like with a expect more from them they would or so i don't know that they're expecting your resume to be harder or of  sort of a higher level of difficulty i think what they're looking for you represent for your resume to represent are your creativity or your problem solving or your leadership skills because when you go to major it in  major like engineering or medicine you are really going to have to test your skill sets you know and problem solving on the spot academic creativity leadership so being able to take your engineering team toward that solution and being able to speak up when you have that opportunity and so not every high school is going to have an engineering club and and and a medical club and you know so and and things like that and  best have those activities are going to give you those other qualities that they're looking for so do you think some high schools with more cultures do you think those students are more  clubs do they do it give the students more of an advantage over the students who say we don't have as many clubs like on the roads moves i don't think so i like i said i think it's all about the quality of the experiences that you have and so you know if you are interested in going engineering but we don't have an engineering club and i think those you look to the community to do those types of things so you know are you involved in scouts have you tried to get an internship there's many pre college programs over the summer where you're able to attend a program summer a weeklong summer six weeks long summer at cmu or pitt or duquesne and so i think if you are in student is going to either get or not get into a college you know i lot of colleges want necessarily except a resume per se with the resume does for use it helps you organize those experiences you've had so that when you get to the application if there is an activity section it helps you best represent the things that you've done within that application and so in that light it's it's more a matter of really representing what you've done outside of school so if you have aids in bees that in itself is impressive it becomes more impressive if you bet and you know very active either in the school community or the community at large so would you say like that shows that you're good at what time management what you're juggling like with getting good grades and you're also like remember in your community with clubs right so i think that you know it's important for this college to be able to see that you're you're a well organized  do have a good time management but also that you know when you're in college you're going to take advantage of the activities that they offer and so colleges like to see active student they want to know that students are going to come and be very energetic about the programs that they offer as well and so if you're more apt to do things like that in high school that that is a behavioral trait that you're going to continue in college of so what's the most hopeful reference you could have on your resume like it would be a sport or club or a job what should do you think would be the most like state of the most two because i don't know that there's necessarily one specific category i think if you have been involved whether it's in an activity varsity sport a job or in community service i think it's just important that you reflect well what you have done and so i think you know the one mistake that perhaps students will make is they will say i participated in say varsity baseball and that is just one bullet point but they don't necessarily also list that they've been on select travel teams or that they have gone to certain competitions or certain training and things like that and so when students are very involved in one activity it is important to note all the different ways that you prepare for that activity and so making sure that whomever is getting your resume really understands your level of commitment your level of time commitment your organization and your leadership that you displayed within that activity those early chancellor cultures may just like not care or even what activities you participated in that always possible so that to some extent is largely dependent on the school there are going to be some colleges that will want to see mostly your academic statistics whether that be your g p a any testing scores whether the s a t s a p tees but most colleges today do want to have some information of what you have done outside the classroom so perhaps as i've said they will all have give but they will have a section on their resume in which you are to reflect the things that you have done so that is important to most schools the types of activities you've been involved in now is there any call just like in the north or south w division that way of and certainly there are a lot of schools in the north that have very extensive applications as in the southside think when you are looking at colleges and you get to that point where you're either creating an admissions account or you're downloading the application you'll be able to tell what their college is looking for you as a prospective student by how involved the the actual application is in the even to that extent if they don't have a large activity section but they do accept the letters of recommendation having that detailed resume allows your teachers or whomever you're asking for a letter of recommendation that opportunity to talk about those act activities so it isn't always directly from the students sometimes it comes from your teacher or your counselor or administrator maybe at how tight recommender that is commenting on those things that you've done while in high school  topic on resume