The New Graduate resume
With no work history, the resume's job is to prove you can be taught and can finish things. Course projects count if you write them like work.
What screeners actually look for
Three things, in order of weight.
01
Projects written like jobs: your role, what you did, what came out
02
Internships, even short ones, with concrete tasks
03
Evidence of finishing — competitions, shipped work, a repo that runs
The three mistakes this role makes most
- Padding with club titles and generic personality traits
- Listing courses instead of what you built in them
- Two pages of nothing — one dense page is stronger
Keywords worth including
Work them into your title, project descriptions and skills — don't pile them into a list.
Templates that fit New Graduate
Each cover is the template itself, rendered.
Chinese two-column with a photo slot, standard for 校招.
Fresh and clean without looking junior.
Common questions
How long should a New Graduate resume be?
One page. Unless you have 10+ years and a genuinely full second page, the second page only dilutes the first. Put projects written like jobs: your role, what you did, what came out above the fold.
What gets a New Graduate resume rejected fastest?
Padding with club titles and generic personality traits. It is the single most common reason this role gets screened out, and fixing it matters far more than changing templates.
Can I generate a New Graduate resume with AI?
Use AI for the first draft, then verify every claim and number yourself and reorder keywords against the target job description. AI handles speed; the content is still your responsibility.