<p>My interviewer asked me to send him a copy of my resume in advance…problem is, I don’t have a resume. I’ve never written one of these before, so I’m unsure what I should include. Any advice from someone who has a resume?</p>
<p>Include your activities and anything you have done such as work experience, volunteer work…anything. I would keep it from going over a page though</p>
<p>So basically it’s in a similar vein to the common application, minus the essays?</p>
<p>As someone who has reviewed resumes for a scholarship committee, I suggest that you take a look at some sample resumes online and change them to suit your needs. Follow a resume format. A resume should look like one - not just a listing of your activities in random order!</p>
<p>I would recommend listing your activities first (and be specific, especially if you held a leadership position). On my daughter’s resume, she listed her “best” activities first - and by that, I mean the ones in which she was president or had a very active role. She put both school and extracurricular activities in one category.</p>
<p>The next category was “Awards and Honors.” Pretty self-explanatory.</p>
<p>Finally, she had “Volunteering.” She had no work experience, but you should certainly include that if you do.</p>
<p>Her resume did NOT include school information because it was very specifically used for college applications - and the reader would also have seen her transcript. She will add that category later!</p>
<p>Her resume happened to be two pages long because it took that much space to list her activities in a meaningful way. You shouldn’t go over two pages. People get bored reading!</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Before you knock yourself out trying to come up with a resume’, I would suggest you be honest with the interviewer and let him/her know that you do not have a formal resume’ prepared because you did not submit one with your applicaiton. Offer to prepare one if he/she still would like one, but my guess is that he/she will say it isn’t necessary. The interviewer probably just wanted to get an idea of your interests and activities to know how to direct the conversation. I do alumni interviews for a different university (well-known, highly ranked) and we would never request a resume’ from a student but will welcome one if offered at the time of the interview. The goal of our interviews is to get to know a side of the student that might not come across in the application. You can always convey your major activities and accomplishments if the appropriate questions come up in the interview. I really don’t think the interviewer would intend for you to be stressed out about this request, so be honest and see what happens. This is a different situation than being judged by a scholarship committee. In that situation, you would definitely need to supply one. In either case, you should still have an idea of what a resume’ entails in case you need to prepare one in the future.</p>