How to Use your Internship to Boost your Resume!

An internship can be a really useful addition to your resume. If done right, you will gain valuable experience, great references and plenty of knowledge about the industry. There's no right or wrong way to write a resume but here are some tips on how to sell you internship experience on your resume.

Learn as much as you can

While you’re doing your internship, be sure to get experience in as many areas as possible. You’re there to learn, so make the most of it. Remember, you can only boast about experience that you actually have. If you haven't given it your all, you've let yourself down. Make the most out of your internship, talk to people, ask questions and you'll come away with a well rounded experience.

Treat your internship like a job

If you're lacking in experience, use your internship the way you would a job. List it under work experience, chronologically among your other work experience placements. Be sure you label this experience as an internship so that employers don’t think that you're a job-hopper and unwilling to commit to a long-term position.

Highlight your accomplishments

Sell your experience - if you had your article printed or help to build a house, make sure you draw attention to it on your CV. Even if you worked on something as a team, highlight what you did and how it contributed to the project. You should give examples of the jobs you did during your internship, so that your potential employer gets an understanding of your job.

Keep it brief

As with writing any resume, keep your main points concise and bulleted. Most employers give a resume a quick once over as part of the initial screening process, so your key selling points should be written in a way that is eye-catching and quick to read.

Most employers know that interns are not given a great deal of responsibility, so a few main points are all you need. Anything more than that will look like an exaggeration of the work you actually did.

But not too brief

On the flipside, avoid writing just one line about your internship. Give a general idea of what you did there and what you learned. It is an important part of your resume and provides vital experience, so make sure it gets noticed.

No matter how you write your resume, be sure to include your internship. It will become an important quality that sets you apart from other applicants and helps you get your foot in the door.