Why? If you have done things that are truly remarkable, your resume is just an afterthought. Why, on earth, would you spend so much time on your internship resume when it won't get you the job. Internship resumes never land internships, great students land internships.
The point of an internship resume is to get an internship interview. It is that simple, but people fail to see resumes as just a tool, instead they see it as the end goal. It doesn't make any sense to spend all your time producing a document that just doesn't do anything. Recruiters will look at your resume for just a couple seconds before viewing the next. Why spend time on your internship when you can spend time building stuff that that gets you noticed for your internship. Why not start a blog or newsletter or something else crazy that we can't even think about right now.
Internship resumes are not the end goal, don't ever forget this. Why do you even have one? Great people don't need resumes because people know them based on what they can do, not how well they format a piece of paper. We get so caught up in the tools that we forget the end goal. And if one tool isn't working, try another, it is that simple. If your internship resume isn't leading anywhere, go work on your internship cover letter.
There is a difference between the tools and the end house. It is as if we spend all our time worried about whether we should use a hammer or a nail gun instead of how we will build the house.
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