How to Take Advantage of the EngineerInternships.com Resume Template

First, go ahead and download our template from our preparation services page, it’s free! If you have already done that, you’re in the right place. We will start by editing the top of the page. These are the easy, straightforward, parts of the resume just simple facts about you and your school.

While referencing the image below we’ll discuss the first 4 points of the resume template. For point 1 you should take a picture of your university’s engineering school logo, or general university logo if there is no good engineering one. Then replace the logo on the template, this is a way to utilize your school’s credibility in the resume. For point 2 it is just personal information. The permanent address should be somewhere you can safely receive mail for a while, typically a parent’s or relative’s house. School address refers to where you live at school. This is important if you go to school away from home and can help you seem local to a company near your school. You can put any email you typically check/whichever email you use to fill out applications. For point 3 the (discipline) should be changed to your discipline, for example, “Mechanical”. The dates should represent the start and end dates of the semester you want to intern. For point 4 education you should edit it to represent your degree. For hours completed you should put the number of credit hours/units you have completed. This should include even units that you plan to complete if they are before the internship begins.

Skills and Applied Experience

You can reference the image below and your copy of the resume template for this section. In the skills section, you want to list a couple of courses and skills you have learned that would relate well to the internship you are applying for. We typically suggest listing 3 courses on the left and 3 technical skills on the right. When choosing courses to list try to use courses you have recently taken and are more practically focused. For example, listing Calculus III isn’t typically suggested unless it is a math job because Calculus is only used in very specific engineering jobs. Whereas, listing Dynamics for a mechanical engineer is more beneficial because employers expect knowledge of dynamics for mechanical engineers. For skills you want to choose 3 that you feel you have a good grasp of from extracurriculars. For example, if you’ve spent some time 3D modeling in SolidWorks that is always a good skill to list. The only caution is to avoid putting anything on your resume that you feel you can’t answer at least a simple question about. This just avoids the opportunity that they ask you a question that you can’t even start to answer.

Applied experience is the place to list experiences you have had that are similar to work experience without actually being a job. Some examples include being a part of an engineering club team, an unpaid research assistant, cool projects you have completed in class or out of class, etc. For the research assistant, you should only list it as applied experience if you were unpaid. If you were paid it was a job and you can list it in work experience. With these experiences try to describe them in a way that highlights what you achieved and learned in your resume. Also, be prepared for questions about these experiences in the interview process. So, make sure you can talk about those experiences intelligently.

Work Experience

For work experience simply put any jobs you have worked. It should be formatted as seen below. They should be listed in order of most recent to oldest. For example, a current job should be at the top. Try to list 3 bullet points of important things you do/did at that job. These should be easy to talk about so that you can answer questions about these bullets. Also, try to use powerful words when describing what you did, collaborated, communicated, and any words that seem to best show what you did. Also, don’t be afraid to put jobs that don’t “relate” to the internship. For example, even a cashier job is helpful on the resume for an internship. That job shows that you show up to work, can communicate with team members and customers, have responsibilities, and more. These are all important traits to show employers.

Activities and Honors

Activities and Honors is just a place to list other stuff that shows character that doesn’t fall in an earlier category. This could be sports involvement, volunteer work, societies you partake in, or awards you’ve received. Feel free to list anything that you feel shows who you are as a person in a good way.

You have now finished reading our resume template how-to article. You should now be equipped to successfully fill out our free resume template and apply to internships. If you would like more support with your resume, we would be happy to do a resume review which you can find on our preparation services page.