

Read More: This Free Worksheet Makes It Easy to Create (or Update) Your Resumeīut if you’ve never made a resume and don’t have someone else’s to work off of, you may be in need of a template. I won’t deny it worked well for me-and I still use that same template to this day. Maybe that’s your go-to strategy: Find someone with a great resume and make it your own. Having zero context for what one should look like, I took my older brother’s resume and copy-and-pasted my own experience into his template.


I was 16 and applying to a role at American Eagle (yes, I made a resume in high school no, I did not need one to get an after-school job yes, I was very extra). I remember the first time I had to write a resume.
