Internships

How to write an internship resume that highlights your skills

Learn how to write a resume that improves your chances of getting a Fidelity internship.

March 26, 2026 5 minute read

Want to land a Fidelity internship? Learn how to create a resume for college internships that clearly highlights your skills and experiences and helps move your application forward.

Key takeaways

Make your major and graduation date easy to find.
Include relevant experience with measurable results and highlight extracurriculars that show your leadership and initiative.
Keep your resume to one page, send it as a PDF only, and make formatting easy and clear to read.

When you apply for a Fidelity internship, you’ll want to put your best foot forward. Your resume is often the first impression a recruiter gets of you, and a strong resume can help you get noticed. As a student, you probably don’t have a lot of corporate experience yet and that’s okay. We want to help you create a resume that highlights the skills and experience you do have so you can stand out to recruiters.

Discover how to format your resume and what to include to give yourself the best chance of landing a Fidelity internship.

What to include in your resume for college internships

If you’re wondering how to write an internship resume, the first step is knowing what to include. Here’s what we suggest you highlight when creating a resume for student internships:

Education information

Make sure your major/minor and expected graduation date are clearly listed. Recruiters want to see if your education aligns with the internship and that your expected graduation date shows you’ll still be in school during the program. If you forget to include this information, you could disqualify yourself before you start.

“Put your graduation date and major as close to the top as possible,” says Larilyn, a Fidelity recruiter. Only include college coursework that’s unique and relevant to the internship, and do not include high school education. You don’t always need to include your GPA on your resume. Recruiters see a lot of resumes with high GPAs, so if yours isn’t exceptionally strong, it’s usually better to leave it off. Instead, focus on specific coursework or projects that showcase your success, skills, and experience.

“Highlight academic projects that are relevant to the job you’re applying to, like working on a case study or analyzing data,” Fidelity recruiter Alvin recommends. “I'd rather see that than ‘I took a marketing 101 class.’”

Work experience

Include work experience that showcases the soft skills you’ve developed, even if the job isn’t related to the internship at first glance. For example, working at a restaurant highlights your ability to be part of a team, take direction from a manager, and manage your time.

Whenever you can, back up your accomplishments with concrete results. Even simple metrics help tell a clearer story. “Hiring managers want to see numbers,” Larilyn says. “If you helped 120 customers a day on average, that needs to be in there. That's a lot of interactions, multitasking, and working in a fast-paced environment.”

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Extracurricular activities

Add in extracurricular activities or volunteering you’ve been involved in over time. Hiring managers want to see ongoing participation and commitment. Don’t include anything from high school, unless it was a major accomplishment.

Make sure to include any leadership roles. Leadership qualities are important to internships, so if you were a leader of any student groups, sororities, fraternities, in the student union, on the board of a non-profit, or on a committee, those are all good resume builders. Also, include any student athlete roles, even at the club level, which show teamwork, commitment, and time management skills.

“Hiring managers want to know about the teamwork you're doing,” Larilyn says, “and how that transfers to contributing to the company.”

Hard skills

Add a skills section only if you have hard skills to communicate. This is especially true for tech internships. Certifications, coding knowledge, languages, and proficiency with software, like Microsoft Excel, are all good skills to add.

Soft skills like leadership abilities and interpersonal skills should be demonstrated through your activities and work experience rather than listed in a separate skills section. Saying you were the president of the Finance Club showcases your ability to lead in a way that writing “leadership skills” in your skills section doesn’t.

Guidelines for creating a resume

It’s not just what you include in your Fidelity internship resume but how you include it. Here’s how to write a resume for an internship that gets results:

Keep your resume to one page only.
Always save the resume as a PDF for a clean look.
Don’t include a picture on your resume.
Use a personal and professional email address that you’ll have access to after you graduate, rather than your college email. Be sure to check your email consistently.
Use bullet points when you want to expand on your work. Keep it to no more than 3—5 bullet points and make sure to use the same number of bullet points for each section across your resume to ensure the resume is uniform and professional.
Leave high school accomplishments off your resume.
Keep the aesthetic of your resume clean and scannable. Make sure the font is legible, consistent, and easy to read and include some white space.
Double-check your resume before you send it out. Make sure it’s tailored to that specific internship and that you don't send the wrong resume to the wrong company.
Confirm that the location of the role matches where you live and that address is on the resume. Unless the company is hiring remotely or offering a relocation package, if your location and location of the role don’t match then your resume will be immediately rejected.
Ensure your resume is clean and there are no comments or markups from people who reviewed it.
Be careful about using AI. It can be good to help format or polish your resume but relying on AI to write your resume could make it harder when it comes time for you to describe your experiences in an interview.
If you have a LinkedIn profile, make sure it complements your resume and there are no contradictions between the two.

Before you hit “send”

Your resume should get a recruiter excited to hear more about you. You don’t need to include every detail about your experience, skills, life, and educational work. Give them enough information that they want to follow up and learn more.

These internship resume tips are a great start, but they’re just the beginning. Before you send out your resume for any student internships, you should ask for feedback. If your school has a career center, this can be one of your most valuable resources. Career advisors can review your resume, help you tailor it to specific roles, and coach you on how to highlight your strengths. You might also wish to ask trusted friends or family to take a look. Extra eyes will help you revise or catch anything you might have missed.

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