Franken Resume
Your Street Address • City, State Zip • Best Number to Reach You • Best Email Address
Created by the University of Michigan School of Social Work Career Center, August, 2014
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[Use 1-inch margins all around and no smaller than 11-point font.]
OBJECTIVE
Inspirational one-sentence statement regarding your desire to work there…
[Your cover letter will achieve this, which makes this entry repetitive.]
SUMMARY
Snapshot of your skills that you will later present in your bullet points…
[You will already be talking about these skills in your position entries, which
makes this repetitive and generally not a good use of limited resume space.]
EDUCATION [Lead with this]
Name of Graduate School Location City, State
MSW Master of Social Work Date of Graduation or Expected Graduation
Concentrations/Majors/Minors/Foci GPA: 9.0
International Experience Dates
Foreign City, Country
Name of Undergraduate School Location City, State
BA Bachelor of Arts in Psychology Date of Graduation
Concentrations/Minors/Foci GPA: 4.0
RELEVANT SOCIAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Agency City, State
Position Title Start and End Date [can say “Present”]
Volunteer, non-paid, 7 hours per week
• Be sure to format all of these entries in the same format to make it easy to read.
• It is standard to put these entries in reverse chronological order.
• Using tables to format the sections will make it difficult to update later.
• Do not use bullet points for the position entry; only use them for talking about your
experiences at that agency.
• Use bullet points in lieu of talking about (your) experiences in paragraph style.
Agency City, State
Intern Personal Counseling Intern Start and End Date
Part-time, paid, 25 hours per week
• Have more than 1 bullet point per position.
• Within each section, be sure to have roughly the same number of bullet points per
entry so that one job does not look significantly more or less important than
another.
• Try to edit out “hanging words” like in the previous bullet point to maximize the
space and polish up the writing to the best of your ability.
YOUR GIGANTIC NAME
[In case page 2 gets lost from page 1. Do not include the rest of the header as it
is redundant and a waste of valuable space better spent on your experiences.]
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• Bullet point lines should be 1-2 lines maximum – be concise!
[Tab down if the pages are going to awkwardly break up your position entry.]
OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
Agency City, State
Volunteer Outreach Program Volunteer Start and End Date
Full-time, paid, 40 hours per week
• Leading Lead with an active verb and, if the position is over, then be sure that all
your verbs are in the past tense.
• Highlight what you did and your accomplishments versus your roles or what you
were “responsible for.”
• Consider the “What/When/How/Why” questions when writing your bullet entries.
Agency City, State
Position Title Start and End Date
Part-time, paid, 20 hours per week
Supervisor: Name
• Highlight Emphasize the range or diversity of your experiences to avoid being
repetitive when you have had similar positions.
• Instead of saying, “Assisted” or “Helped,” consider what you did to assist or help,
and highlight the work involved and take credit for your work.
• Not everyone will know what P.O.W.E.R.R. or DBT is, so spell out all acronyms.
RESEARCH
Where you got the experience – school or agency
Research Lab Title Start and End Dates
Your Title, Professor City, State
Any posters or publications you have can go in APA format. If you presented at a
conference, you add on: “Poster session at the Name of Association at the Name
of Conference, City, State”
SKILLS
• Technological Skills!
• Language Skills!
• Art Skills! Oh My!
HONORS
[This is best at the end, so that you can highlight your direct experiences first, which is
most pertinent when applying for a position.]
REFERENCES or “References available upon request.”
YOUR GIGANTIC NAME
[In case page 2 gets lost from page 1. Do not include the rest of the header as it
is redundant and a waste of valuable space better spent on your experiences.]
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[Going up to 2 pages is a standard maximum at this point in your career!]
