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Career starter resume example

A career starter resume example for a first job in NYC: summary, skills, projects and education first, then verified volunteer and campus work.

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Career starter

Summary, skills, projects, education, then any verified work or volunteer experience.

Maya Santos

Remote | maya.santos@example.com | (718) 555-0142 | linkedin.com/in/maya-santos-example

Summary

Recent graduate with a BS in Business Administration from Lehman College and two years of campus and volunteer leadership around Fordham Road. Comfortable with spreadsheets, customer conversations, and organizing events that actually start on time. Looking for an entry level operations or client support role in NYC where reliability and follow through matter more than a long job history.

Skills

Office tools: Excel pivot tables and lookups, Google Workspace, Canva, Asana, Slack, Zoom.

Customer work: front desk intake, appointment scheduling, bilingual support in English and Spanish.

Organizing: event logistics, volunteer coordination, inventory counts, weekly status reports.

Projects

Campus Food Pantry Inventory Tracker | Lehman College | Spring 2026

  • Built an Excel inventory sheet with reorder alerts that cut monthly stockouts from nine to two
  • Trained six volunteers to log donations the same way so weekly counts matched the shelf every time
  • Presented the tracker to the student government and secured a 1,200 dollar restock budget

Neighborhood Small Business Survey | Fordham Road merchants | Fall 2025

  • Interviewed 42 shop owners about foot traffic and online listings for a marketing class capstone
  • Turned the interviews into a twelve page report with charts that the local merchants association shared with members

Education

Lehman College | Bachelor of Science in Business Administration | May 2026

  • Dean's List three semesters, concentration in operations and marketing
  • Coursework: business analytics, project management, organizational behavior, marketing research

Volunteer Experience

Community Fridge Network | Volunteer Coordinator | June 2024 to May 2026

  • Scheduled 30 rotating volunteers across four fridge sites using a shared Google calendar and text reminders
  • Cut missed shifts by half within two months by confirming every slot 24 hours ahead
  • Kept a simple donation log that the network used to apply for a neighborhood grant

Lehman College Welcome Desk | Student Assistant | September 2023 to May 2026

  • Greeted and directed roughly 150 visitors a week and answered admissions and financial aid questions
  • Handled front desk scheduling for campus tours and kept the tour calendar current for three staff members
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Why this shape

A career starter resume gets read for potential, not history. When the work section is thin, a hiring manager in the Bronx or anywhere else wants to see what you can already do, so the summary, the skills, the projects and the degree come first and the volunteer or campus jobs prove you show up.

What to lead with

Lead with one honest summary line, a skills block grouped by kind, and two projects with a number in each. A food pantry tracker that cut stockouts from nine to two says more than a job title ever could.

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Paste your own campus, volunteer or internship history into the free resume generator and Resume Genie writes a career starter resume from your saved profile, then the ATS resume check tells you what a first job posting still wants to see. When you want to know what an entry level role pays in NYC, the salary calculator in CareerWell shows the gap.