Sample Resume for a Summer Job

Create a resume to earn summer cash.

By Kathleen Walder, Monster Contributor

Is a resume for a summer job necessary? The experts at Monster give a resounding yes! A resume emphasizes your interest in the position, and you’ll stand head and shoulders above those who only turn in an application.

What should you include in summer job resume, especially if this is your first job? For starters, be sure you know how to put “summer job” on resume copies you send out. See the resume below for an example.

Another smart thing to do is customize your resume for a summer job to the employer’s ad. Read the ad line-by-line and include the skills or experience you have that are a match. What if this is your first job? Look at your school, club, or volunteer activities. For example, if you’ve babysat for your younger siblings, you can point to a talent for being responsible and working with children. Have you been in plays or marching band at school? Then you may have the skills to be an entertainer at a theme park.

If you don’t have much work experience, you may not have a lot to put on a resume for a summer job. Be sure to keep the design clean and easy to read. Resist the urge to use big and fancy typefaces to fill up space. Look at one of Monster’s summer job resume examples here to see how a professional resume should look.

Resume for a Summer Job

Celia Sattler

Eugene, Oregon | Cell: 555-555-5555 | celia@email.com| LinkedIn.com/celia.sattler

University of Oregon Student Seeking

SUMMER employment

Retail employee with experience fulfilling multifaceted roles (e.g., cashiering, customer service desk, floor sales, and stocking/receiving) during summers and holidays off from college. Offer excellent customer service skills, a “can-do” approach to all tasks, and a consistently high level of productivity.

Skills

  • Retail Store Operations
  • Customer Service
  • Warehousing/Stocking/Receiving
  • Merchandising/Floor-Sets
  • Plan-O-Grams
  • Inventory Control Systems
  • Cash Handling
  • Retail Sales
  • Loss Control

Experience

COMPANY ONE, Eugene, Oregon

Fortune 500 electronics retailer

Seasonal Stocker/Receiving Helper, 20XX to Present

Cashier, 20XX to 20XX

Work during summer and winter holidays in store support and customer-facing roles. Thrive within busy environment requiring the ability to prioritize and provide exceptional customer service.

Accomplishments:

Earned “On the Spot Award” for quick actions that prevented $5,000 in merchandise from being shoplifted.

Served on team that accelerated the movement of received merchandise to the sales floor, resulting in a 5% increase in holiday sales.

COMPANY TWO, Eugene, Oregon

Largest discount retailer in the US

Summer/Seasonal Associate, 20XX to 20XX

Repeatedly recruited for return employment during the summer and winter holiday seasons.

Accomplishments:

Demonstrated fast learning capacity, flexibility, and versatile skill-set. Worked on the sale floor (Women’s Wear/Domestics), at the customer service desk, and as a front-end cashier.

Recognized by store management team for customer service excellence and outstanding job performance through two-time “Star Team Player” awards.

Education

UNIVERSITY ONE, Eugene, Oregon

Pursuing BA in Marketing, 20XX to Present (GPA: 3.7)

Technology

POS Systems; Computerized Cash Registers; Scanners; Inventory Systems; MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

Want to save some time? Download this summer job resume template in Word here.

Summer job pay varies and depends on the role and where you live. For example, the median pay for a golf course worker is $12.60 an hour and can be as high as $21.90. A pool lifeguard’s median pay is $11.93 an hour. You can find out what you might make in a job by looking at Monster’s Salary Tool.

Finding a summer job depends on the location too. You’ll see where a job is in high demand when you look at the Salary Tool. For lifeguards, high-demand areas are:

You can also take a look on Monster at all lifeguard jobs throughout the U.S. to see what’s in your area.

Here are some other popular summer jobs:

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