High School Resume Writing Lesson and Career Exploration Worksheets, Activities

Are your high school students starting to ask you for tips on how to format and write their resumes? This CV and Resume Writing Package is the resource you’ve been looking for to teach your students about professional self-promotion and how to properly write and format a resume or CV. An extensive package which includes ready-to-use career exploration worksheets with content-rich pages, this resource is the perfect set of printables, task cards and PowerPoint Presentations for setting your students up for success after high school.

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This Resume Writing Lesson allows you to teach an entire class about writing a CV or resume, and it has a lot of materials you can use to get your students to understand why they will need one before graduation:

  • 2 PowerPoint Presentations on CV and resume writing
  • a reading comprehension passage with comprehension questions
  • career exploration worksheets and tasks
  • an action verbs infograph
  • 20 ‘do & don’t’ practice task cards
  • 4 example resumes
  • 2 editable CV/resumé templates

These activities for high school are perfect for career learning in advisory or counseling classes. Use them for life skills lessons on career guidance in upper-high school. They also work great for teaching about resumes or CVs to classes who have limited knowledge in resumes and career readiness. Use the printables in your physical classroom or take these resource online – the entire package is also on Google Slides!

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✅ Teach Resume Building on PowerPoint: Get your students prepared for the world outside of high school by using the pre-keyed PowerPoint presentation. Click through custom-designed slides that give 5 tips for writing resumes and shows students how to use action verbs for a more professionally worded CV. The PowerPoint is ready-to-use and the slides are rich with information for learning more about what makes a resume standout in the first place.

✅ Advanced CV and Resume Analysis: There is also a second PowerPoint presentation that can be used to show example of resumes. It is custom-designed to give you both the example and analysis notes side-by-side. Students will love how the slides make the important points of the CV standout. Use the included analysis points or write your own – the text in the PowerPoint is editable!

✅ Career Exploration Activities: All the activities in this package were designed to give students the practice they need to eventually write their own professional CV or resume. They’ll learn how to write a resume by analyzing examples and make comparisons, practicing with task cards, discussing example sentences, learning about action verbs, and exploring tips in a reading passage that gets them learning the details of a resume.

✅ WAIT! Did you say ‘Reading Passage?” I did! Not only will your students be learning how to write a CV or resume, they’ll also get to practice their reading comprehension skills. To learn about the 5 tips for writing a CV, students read a 3-page passage and answer comprehension questions about what they read. The reading is a great introduction to resume writing for students!

✅ Detailed Resource Guidance: This package of resume writing activities includes a detailed set of resource notes for the teacher. You don’t have to worry if your resume knowledge isn’t where you’d like it to be; the notes give you all you will need.

WHAT TEACHERS on TpT ARE SAYING

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Nadja said, “My students found this resource very helpful with their applications and I will use it again teaching my next Year 10 ESL.”

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leena said, “The outline, content, and activities were excellent for my students, they are low level despite being in HS.”

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The package includes a PDF file that can be opened the PDFs using your preferred PDF reader. Along with the student pages, you’ll also get resource notes and answer keys that explain how to use the activities effectively.

The PowerPoint presentations, 2 in total, require Microsoft PowerPoint in order to use them. Though it is not recommended to make edits to the transitions and animations of the slides, with some knowledge of layering and design skills, you will be able to make small edits. Some slides have text elements that can be edited with your own information.

This resource can be used in both your physical classroom or in any online learning environment. You’ll get access to the Google Slides® for going paperless.

The words ‘resume’ and ‘CV’ are used interchangeable in this resource.

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This resource was created by Landon S. Seigler of ESL Lifeline, all rights are reserved. The original purchaser is permitted to use it for a single class only. Teachers have the authorization to share this product with their students (and parents) through email, Google Classroom, or the Internet, as long as the site is password protected. Distribution to your own students is allowed, but uploading it to the Internet for public access and download is not permitted.

**If you wish to use this resource for multiple classrooms or share it with fellow educators, please purchase additional licenses.Your adherence to these usage terms is greatly appreciated.

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