How to Write an Education Resume

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Laura Turner, and today we're going to talk about how to write an education resume. Education resume is going to be a little different than writing a resume say for a job or outlining specific skills. An education resume is going to sort of demonstrate your academic excellence. You can definitely expand this into a curriculum vitae, that contains all of your academic experience, or you can just keep it limited to a one page kind of thing, in which list all of the degrees that you've earned and things like that. If you are writing an education resume in order to get into another school to pursue a higher degree of education, you should also list a few things that would not be included on a resume such as this one or a curriculum vitae. You want to also include your research interests and your sort of studying interests, things that you are interested in pursuing whenever you're accepted into the program. And you actually just list those at the end of your curriculum vitae if you're doing that, or as an attachment to your resume if you think that they would be interested in something like that. But the first thing that you're going to want to do before you apply to a school using your education resume is figure out what that school specializes in and why you want to go there, and make sure that you make your resume as attractive as possible for the department that you're applying to. So if you, for example, as in this first page of a resume I have here, if you have done some student teaching and you want to list that on your resume you should obviously list that first because that is academically related. Any other things like honors and affiliations within your field should go secondary to those academic things that you've completed, and so on from there. Sort of relevant experience to your department and stuff should go toward the end of the resume. Especially also if you're applying to a specific school, sort of detail which professors you may want to work with in your cover letter and things like this, but that's another subject entirely."