Resume template · Updated October 2026
College recruiter resume template
Short answer
Meridian suits a college recruiter: skills print before experience, so campus programs, applicant tracking systems and event skills are seen first. The fictional sample runs campus recruiting for a technology company, hires interns and new graduates from target schools and raised intern offer acceptance. Show hires, schools, events, acceptance rates and program results.
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Why Meridian suits a college recruiter resume
Meridian prints a summary, labelled skills rows and then experience, in black and grey. Talent leaders screen campus recruiters on program skills and systems, then on hiring numbers, and this order matches that reading.
Second choice: Catalyst. Catalyst opens straight on your current role with no summary, a fit for recruiters with strong recent hiring numbers.
What goes in each section, in Meridian's order
Meridian prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.
- Professional Summary. Company or industry, roles hired, school portfolio, years in recruiting and one hiring result.
- Skills. Campus recruiting, interviewing, events, applicant tracking systems and sourcing tools.
- Work Experience. Bullets on hires, schools covered, events, offer acceptance, intern conversion, partnerships and process changes.
- Education. Degree with the year.
The sample resume as text
The same content as the files above, so you can copy a line or compare it with your own.
Brandon Lee
Campus Recruiter, Engineering and Product
Seattle, WA | brandon.lee@example.com | (206) 555-0168 | linkedin.com/in/sample-brandon-lee
Campus recruiter hiring engineering and product interns and new graduates for a software company. Run a portfolio of 15 universities and raised intern offer acceptance in two seasons.
Experience
Campus Recruiter, Cascade Cloud Software, Seattle, WA (02/2022 to Present)
- Hire about 70 engineering and product interns and 40 new graduates a year from 15 universities.
- Raised intern offer acceptance from 74% to 86% by moving offers three weeks earlier and adding team match calls.
- Run fall and spring campus seasons: about 25 career fairs, info sessions and coding events a year.
- Trained about 60 engineers as campus interviewers with a shared scoring guide.
- Added partnerships with student engineering societies, which doubled applicants from those groups.
Recruiting Coordinator, Cascade Cloud Software, Seattle, WA (07/2020 to 01/2022)
- Scheduled about 40 interviews a week for engineering roles.
- Managed candidate travel and onsite days.
- Kept candidate records up to date in Greenhouse.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, University of Washington (06/2020)
Skills
Campus recruiting, Intern program management, Structured interviewing, Event planning, Employer branding, Greenhouse, Handshake, LinkedIn Recruiter, Stakeholder management
How to make the sample yours
Count hires
Interns and new graduates hired per year, and the roles. Hiring volume is the first number managers check.
Show acceptance and conversion
Offer acceptance rate and intern to full-time conversion. These show the program works.
Name the schools and partners
Number of target schools, student organisations and career centers you work with.
Describe events
Career fairs, info sessions, hackathons or case competitions you run.
Show program changes
Interview training, faster offer timelines or new outreach that widened the candidate pool.
Keywords to keep where they are true
Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.
- campus recruiter
- university recruiting
- college recruiting
- intern hiring
- new grad hiring
- offer acceptance rate
- intern conversion
- career fairs
- employer branding
- Greenhouse
- Handshake
- diversity outreach
Mistakes to avoid
- Candidate names.
- No hiring numbers.
- Listing every school by name.
- Claims about candidate quality you cannot show.
How the sample PDF reads in text extractors
We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.
| Extractor | Name, email, phone | Headings | Bullets intact |
|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
Frequently asked questions
What should a college recruiter resume focus on?
Hires, schools, events, offer acceptance and intern conversion. Talent leaders want to see a program that brings in strong people on time.
How do I show results in campus recruiting?
Use hires against plan, offer acceptance, conversion rates and applicant growth from partner groups. Give the season or year for each number. If your company does not share hiring targets, describe growth against the prior season instead.
How do I move from recruiting coordinator to campus recruiter?
Show scheduling volume, candidate experience work and any events you helped run. Many campus recruiters start as coordinators.
Is this template right for admissions recruiters at colleges?
It can work, but our college admissions counselor template covers territory, application reading and deposits.
Should I list the schools I recruit from?
A count is usually enough, plus one or two well-known names if your employer allows. Long lists of schools waste space. Mention how you chose new schools if you changed the portfolio, because that shows strategy.
How long should the resume be?
One page for most recruiters. Keep hiring numbers and acceptance rates near the top.
Will applicant tracking systems read this Meridian PDF?
The sample PDF read back with its contact details, all 4 section headings and all 8 bullets intact in three open-source text extractors (pdf.js, pdftotext and pypdf). Commercial systems such as Workday, Greenhouse or Taleo were not tested, and each employer configures its own.
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