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    Internship Resume Templates

    Two free resume templates for students: one for anyone who has not had an internship yet, and one for students who have completed one. Both use a single column, standard headings and no tables, text boxes or graphics, the layout that university career centers and Chartered Professional Accountants of Alberta (CPA Alberta) recommend so that applicant tracking systems (ATS) can read the file. Download either one as Word, PDF or plain text, with no email sign-up.

    Below these two templates are three field pages, in this order: Canadian resume format (Canadian templates only), nursing student (US and Canadian versions) and accounting internship (US and Canadian versions).

    As of October 21, 2026, Intern Insider listed 39,518 internships, including openings at CVS Health, Tesla, Bombardier, IBM and 5,876 other companies.

    Templates to download

    General student resume (ATS-friendly)

    Students who have not had an internship yet and want one clean, single-column resume to adapt for each posting

    Internship resume (student with one internship)

    Students who have completed one internship and are applying for the next one

    Templates by field

    What goes in each section

    Contact information

    • Put your name, city and state or province, phone number and an email address you check often at the top of the first page.[1][6]
    • Use an email address based on your name, without nicknames or extra numbers.[6]
    • Leave out a photo, your age, marital status and other personal details. If you apply in Canada, never include your Social Insurance Number (SIN).[6]

    Summary or profile

    • For most US undergraduates, a summary or objective is optional and is usually left out. Both templates on this page skip it.[1]
    • For Canadian applications, CPA Alberta suggests a short profile statement in place of an objective. The Canadian templates on our field pages include one.[5]

    Education

    • Keep education first while you are a student. Give the school, degree, major and any minors, and the month and year you expect to graduate.[1][4]
    • Include your grade point average (GPA) early in your studies. The student guide from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) notes that leaving it off can lead an employer to assume it is low.[4]
    • Relevant coursework is optional. Add it when the course names match the words in the posting.[2]

    Skills

    • Group skills by type, such as software, data tools and languages, so a recruiter can scan each group.[2]
    • For technical majors, put skills near the top, directly after education.[2][3]
    • Write important keywords in full and as an acronym, for example Search Engine Optimization (SEO), so the resume matches either form in a posting.[1]

    Experience

    • List entries from most recent to oldest, each with a job title, organization, city and month and year.[1]
    • Start every bullet with a past-tense action verb, even for a job you still hold, and avoid phrases such as Responsible for and Duties included.[1]
    • Two to five bullets per role is typical for a student. Job Bank suggests no more than five to seven in any one section.[2][6]
    • Use numbers where you have them: people trained, records processed, dollars handled, time saved.[1][6]
    • Part-time and unrelated jobs belong here. Describe the skills they used, such as handling cash, training others or serving customers.[4][2]

    Projects

    • If you have not had an internship yet, move projects up so they sit directly after skills. The general template on this page uses that order.[2]
    • Class, team and personal projects all count. Give each one a title, its context, dates and bullets, the same way you would for a job.[2][3]

    Leadership and activities

    • Clubs, student media, sports teams and volunteer roles show that you can balance commitments and work with others.[4][5]
    • Leave references off the resume. Send them when an employer asks for them.[1][6]

    ATS formatting: what to keep and what to avoid

    An applicant tracking system reads your file as text before a person sees it. Formatting that looks fine on screen can scramble that text, so keep the layout plain: one column, no text boxes, photos or icons, and no tables, borders or lines that run the width of the page.

    Use a standard font such as Times New Roman, Arial or Calibri, with no more than three sizes between 10 and 14 points. Label each section with a standard heading such as Education or Experience, and take keywords from the posting itself.

    For a fuller walkthrough of each section, read our university internship resume guide. For software, data and other technical roles, the tech internship resume guide covers projects and skills in more depth.

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    Where the sources disagree

    William & Mary advises students not to use a resume template at all, because an applicant tracking system may misread one and a template is harder to adapt. The University of Rhode Island, by contrast, publishes its sample as a copyable document. We built these templates to avoid the layouts that cause parsing problems, but the first part of the advice still applies: change the order, headings and wording for each posting instead of filling in blanks.[1][2]

    Length differs by country. William & Mary sets one page for internship applications in the US, while Job Bank and CPA Alberta accept up to two pages in Canada. Both templates on this page fit on one page.[1][6][5]

    Worked example: internship resume for an economics student

    This is the internship template filled in for Theo Marchetti, a fictional economics student with one summer internship and a part-time job. The notes explain what each bullet is doing.

    Sample resume. The student, school and employers are fictional.

    Theo Marchetti

    Pittsburgh, PA | (555) 555-0143 | theo.marchetti@example.com

    Education

    Bachelor of Science in Economics, Minor in Data Analytics, Riverton University, Pittsburgh, PA

    Expected May 2027

    GPA: 3.58 / 4.00

    Relevant coursework: Econometrics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Database Fundamentals, Business Statistics

    Experience

    Operations Analyst Intern, Brightwater Logistics, Pittsburgh, PA

    June 2026 - August 2026

    • Built a weekly Excel report on late shipments for four regional warehouses, which the operations manager used to set carrier priorities

      Why it works: Tool, scope and who used the result are all in one line. The last part matters most: someone acted on the report.

    • Cleaned and merged two years of delivery records (about 40,000 rows) in SQL to find the routes with the most delays

      Why it works: Data work with a size the reader can picture. The row count is approximate, and the word about says so.

    • Presented three route changes to the logistics team, two of which were piloted in August

      Why it works: Two pilots is a concrete result. The bullet does not claim savings the intern never measured.

    • Documented each step of the report so the next intern could run it in under an hour

      Why it works: Handover work rarely makes it onto a resume, yet it is a real contribution to the team.

    Shift Lead, Corner Grind Coffee, Pittsburgh, PA

    September 2024 - Present

    • Trained six new hires on opening procedures, food safety and cash handling

      Why it works: Part-time work described through what it involved: training, procedures and handling money.

    • Balanced the cash drawer and deposit at close on four evenings a week

      Why it works: Frequency (four evenings a week) stands in for a percentage when there is no metric to report.

    Projects

    Rent and Wage Growth Analysis, Econometrics course project

    Spring 2026

    • Modeled rent growth against wage growth for 25 metro areas in R, using public Census Bureau tables

      Why it works: A course project written like a job entry, with the method (R), the data source and the scale.

    Leadership and Activities

    Events Coordinator, Riverton Economics Society, Pittsburgh, PA

    August 2025 - Present

    • Organized four employer panels with 120 attendees in total by contacting alumni through the career center

      Why it works: Counts of events and attendees say more than a list of club duties.

    Skills

    Data: Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, XLOOKUP), SQL, R, Tableau

    Languages: English (native), Spanish (professional working proficiency)

    Tips for applicant tracking systems

    • Save a separate copy for each application and rename it with your first and last name.[1]
    • Mirror the posting's wording for skills you really have. If the posting says data visualization and your resume says charts, add the posting's term.[1]
    • Keep dates, titles and organizations on their own lines or separated by commas. Columns and tables can merge them into one unreadable string.[2][5]
    • Use plain bullet characters. Icons and graphics may be dropped or misread when the file is parsed.[2]
    • Check the plain text download of your resume. If a section reads out of order there, an applicant tracking system may read it out of order too.
    • Ask one other person to proofread it before you send it.[1][6]

    Sources

    1. William & Mary Cohen Career Center, Accounting resume sample and Resume Checklist (PDF). Checked October 19, 2026.
    2. University of Rhode Island Center for Career and Experiential Education, Resume Sample: Computer Science. Checked October 19, 2026.
    3. University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information, Computer Science Undergraduate Example Resume (PDF). Checked October 19, 2026.
    4. AICPA & CIMA (ThisWayToCPA), Writing Your First Resume. Checked October 19, 2026.
    5. CPA Alberta, Student Recruitment Tips for Success (PDF). Checked October 19, 2026.
    6. Government of Canada Job Bank, How to write a good resume. Checked October 19, 2026.

    We take structure and conventions from these sources and write every template, sample person and bullet ourselves.

    Common questions

    It is a resume that an applicant tracking system can read as text without losing or scrambling information. In practice that means one column, standard section headings, a common font and no tables, text boxes, borders or graphics. Both templates on this page follow those rules.

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