Green title card reading New Grad Resume, Education first, then projects, with a sample resume page below.
  • Green title card reading New Grad Resume, Education first, then projects, with a sample resume page below.
  • A filled-in new graduate resume for a made-up environmental science student, with notes on Education, Projects, Part-Time Work and Skills.
  • The blank template with bracket prompts under Education, Projects and Part-Time Work, and a note counting 40 prompts.
  • Close-up of the Projects and Part-Time Work sections: two class or club projects, then a cafe job and a summer lab job.
  • A laptop screen showing the template's Education and Projects prompts in square brackets, ready to type over.
  • The sample page next to monospace text a script read from the .docx, with the words in the same order as the page.
  • Two copies of the sample page side by side, labeled US Letter and A4, drawn at the same scale.
  • A list of five files: two .docx templates, two PDF sample previews and a zip with the Start Here PDF and Rubik font.

New Graduate Resume Template

Written for a student finishing college who has more class work than job history. The page starts with Education and a line for coursework that matches the job. Next come two Projects, then Part-Time Work, then Activities and Skills. The project prompts ask what question you were given, which piece you did yourself when working in a group, and what came of it. The part-time prompts ask for counts, because serving customers, handling cash and working shifts at a cafe all say something. Forty bracket prompts guide the typing, all in one column with no tables. A made-up environmental science student fills the sample, with a cafe job and a summer lab job. No applicant tracking system was tested.

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In Word for Mac and LibreOffice each file stayed on one page and the text order matched. Longer text was not typed. Google Docs, Pages and ATS not tried.

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What's included

  • New-Graduate-Resume-Template-Letter.docx and New-Graduate-Resume-Template-A4.docx, the files you type in
  • New-Graduate-Resume-Sample-Preview-Letter.pdf and New-Graduate-Resume-Sample-Preview-A4.pdf, the filled-in page for a made-up student
  • Start-Here-Samples-Fonts.zip: Start Here PDF, the filled sample as .docx in both sizes, the Rubik font files and their license
A list of five files: two .docx templates, two PDF sample previews and a zip with the Start Here PDF and Rubik font.

How it works

  1. A filled-in new graduate resume for a made-up environmental science student, with notes on Education, Projects, Part-Time Work and Skills.
    Filled-in sample The Sample Preview page for a made-up student: Education first, then Projects and Part-Time Work.
  2. The blank template with bracket prompts under Education, Projects and Part-Time Work, and a note counting 40 prompts.
    The bracket prompts The file you type in. The 40 prompts include one for what you did yourself in a group.
  3. Close-up of the Projects and Part-Time Work sections: two class or club projects, then a cafe job and a summer lab job.
    Class work counts Two projects and two part-time jobs from the sample, each with what was asked and how it ended.
  4. A laptop screen showing the template's Education and Projects prompts in square brackets, ready to type over.
    Type over brackets The .docx open on a laptop screen, with Education and Projects prompts ready to be typed over.
  5. The sample page next to monospace text a script read from the .docx, with the words in the same order as the page.
    Reading order as text The page beside the text a script read from the .docx. The order matches. No hiring software was used.

Compatibility and file formats

A .docx file with ordinary text, heading styles and one column. No tables, text boxes, macros or add-ins. Scripts opened it in LibreOffice 26.8 and read the text with docx2txt, macOS textutil and, after a PDF export, pdftotext. With its font swapped for Liberation Sans or Liberation Serif in LibreOffice, each document stayed on one page. A script also opened this file in Microsoft Word for Mac 16.114.3 and exported a PDF: it stayed on one page and the words came out in the same order as the file. Word used Calibri, Arial or Noto depending on the file and what it could fetch, and no fonts were installed for the test. That test did not type longer text. Google Docs and Pages have not been tried, and no ATS was tested.

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Questions

I have no internship. Does this still work?

Yes. The Part-Time Work section takes any job, and Projects takes class work. Delete the second job block if you have one job.

Should I list my GPA?

That line is optional. Delete it if it doesn't help you.

When do I stop using this layout?

After a year or two of full-time work, move your work section above Projects and rename it Experience.

This is a layout with writing prompts. It gives no career advice and cannot promise an interview or a job. The sample person, schools, employers and numbers are made up. License: for your personal use only. No resale or sharing of this file. AI helped write the listing text, the how-to text, the prompts, the made-up sample entries and the code that builds this file. Scripts tested: the file structure (one column, no tables or text boxes, real heading styles), the reading order as text through docx2txt, textutil and pdftotext, the page count in LibreOffice, the page count with the font swapped, and the metadata. No person is claimed to have checked it unless stated here.