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Recent graduate resume example

With little experience, show what you did, not what you studied. This example leads with an internship and a project, gives a number for each, and treats a part-time job as proof of reliability, while education stays short.

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Sophie Allen

Business administration graduate, seeking an operations or analyst role

sophie.allen@example.comNottingham, UK

Summary

Recent business administration graduate with a 10-week operations internship, a dissertation on inventory forecasting and strong Excel skills. Looking for an entry-level operations or analyst role.

Experience

Operations Intern · FreshMarket Logistics

Jul 2025 – Sep 2025

Nottingham

  • Tracked 120 daily deliveries in Excel and flagged late ones, which helped the team cut late deliveries by 15% in the period
  • Built a simple dashboard of delivery times by route that the manager used in the weekly meeting
  • Updated 300 supplier records and corrected 27 errors

Part-time Cashier · Green Grocer

2023 – 2025

Nottingham

  • Served about 100 customers per shift while studying full time
  • Closed the till with no discrepancy in 95% of shifts

Education

BA, Business Administration · University of Nottingham

2022 – 2025

Nottingham

First-class honours. Dissertation: forecasting inventory with moving averages, awarded a first.

Skills

Excel (pivot tables, lookups) · Power BI basics · Inventory analysis · Reporting · Teamwork · Time management

Languages

English — Native

The person, employers and numbers in this example are invented. Use your own real figures.

What makes this recent graduate resume work

Put the strongest thing first

An internship, a relevant project or a part-time job can come before education if it is more relevant to the role.

Use numbers even for small tasks

120 deliveries tracked, 300 records updated, 27 errors fixed. Numbers make an internship concrete.

Treat any job as experience

Part-time jobs show reliability and customer contact; describe what you handled.

Include projects and your thesis if relevant

A dissertation or course project that matches the job shows interest and skill.

Bullet patterns to adapt

Replace the brackets with your real numbers and details.

  • Tracked [number] [items] a day in [tool] and flagged [issue], which helped [result]
  • Built a [dashboard or report] that [who] used for [purpose]
  • Completed [project] on [topic] using [tools], awarded [grade]
  • Combined full-time study with [job], handling [volume]

Skills to consider

  • Excel
  • Reporting
  • Data entry accuracy
  • Research
  • Teamwork
  • Time management
  • Customer service
  • Presentation skills

List only the skills you have, ordered by how much the job asks for them.

Questions

Should I include my grade?

If it is strong (for example above the course average or a first-class result), yes. If not, leave it out unless asked.

What if I have no internship?

Use projects, volunteering, part-time work, societies or freelance tasks. They show initiative.

How long should it be?

One page.

Should I include a photo?

It depends on the country. In Germany, France and many other countries it is common; in the US and UK it is usually left off.

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