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Student and New Grad Resume Writing Services

Land Your Co-op, Internship or First Job

Unlock New Career Opportunities with Student Resume Writing Services

Co-op terms, class projects, campus jobs and volunteer hours all count. We turn them into a one-page, ATS-ready resume written to the posting in front of you, from $99, with a 60-day interview guarantee.

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From a first co-op term to the C-suite, across 60+ industries.

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What We Offer

Our Student and New Grad Resume Writing Services

From a first co-op application to the new grad programs at the banks, the Big Four and the tech firms, our student and new grad resume writing services cover the resume, the cover letter and the LinkedIn profile that campus recruiters read, plus interview coaching for a first panel.

Student Resume Writing

A one-page, ATS-ready resume for co-op, internship and part-time applications, built from your coursework and projects.

New Grad Resume Writing

A resume for your first full-time role or a new grad program: education first, then every job, project and result.

Co-op and Internship Applications

Written to the posting and the portal: one column, the right headings and the keywords the screen looks for.

Cover Letter Writing

A cover letter written to the posting, for the co-op portals and new grad programs that ask for one.

LinkedIn Profile for Students

A headline, About and experience built for the recruiters who search for new grads by school, program and skills.

Interview Coaching

One-on-one preparation for a first panel or video interview, with answers built from your co-op terms and class projects.

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3 interviews in 2 weeks
“My resume looks amazing! I’ve been called for 3 interviews in 2 weeks. Thank you Khaqan.”
Adrian Brugnone
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Our Promise

The 60-Day Interview Guarantee

Land an interview within 60 days of receiving your new resume, or we’ll give you a full refund and a free expert rewrite. It applies to every package, whether this is your first resume or your first full-time job.

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Hired in under 60 days
“Elite promises that clients will start receiving interview calls within 60 days, and I can personally confirm that this is true! … I got a job in less than 60 days.”
Fouzia Tarannum
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5 Simple Steps

How Our Student Resume Writing Service Works

Our method starts with one question, what does this posting need to see, and it is backed by our 60-day interview guarantee.

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Tell Us About You

We start with your program, your year and the postings or the co-op portal you are applying through, so the resume is written to a real reader.

Gather Your Info

We collect your co-op terms, internships, campus and part-time jobs, volunteering, class projects, awards and the tools you have actually used.

Resume Writing

A writer drafts your resume, and the cover letter and LinkedIn profile if you chose them, to the posting. Your first draft arrives within 2 to 3 business days.

Your Feedback Matters

We refine every document with you until it reads like you on your best day, with unlimited revisions for two weeks.

It’s Go Time

Apply with a resume that clears the portal and the ATS and reads like you, in Word and PDF, ready for the posting in front of you.

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ATS-Optimized Resume writing services

Beat the Bots

Get More Interviews with an ATS-Ready Student Resume

97.4% of Fortune 500 companies use an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to screen resumes, and so do the co-op portals, the banks and the tech firms that run new grad programs. The two-column template most students download parses badly in all of them. We engineer every line, keyword and layout so your resume is read in full by the software and by the person who follows it.

ATS-Optimized Layouts

One column, standard headings and no tables or text boxes, so the portal, the ATS and the recruiter all read the same resume.

Keyword-Enriched Content

The tools, courses and competencies the posting names, in the words the posting uses, placed where the software and the reader both find them.

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Before & After

We Turn Coursework Into Evidence

Most student resumes list duties and hope. Co-op coordinators and campus recruiters hire on evidence. We replace the lines they skim past with lines that prove something.

BeforeObjective: To obtain a position where I can use my skills and grow with the company.
AfterThird-year Mechanical Engineering student, two co-op terms in manufacturing. SolidWorks, GD&T and lean line balancing.
BeforeResponsible for serving customers at a coffee shop.
AfterServed 150 to 200 customers a shift, handled a $3,000 float without a discrepancy and trained four new hires.
BeforeCapstone project (group).
AfterBuilt a demand-forecasting model in Python for a local retailer that cut stock-outs by 18% over one semester.
BeforeSkills: Microsoft Office, teamwork, communication, hard-working.
AfterExcel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP), SQL, Tableau and Jira. Bilingual, English and French.
BeforeVolunteer at community centre.
AfterRan the Saturday homework club for 25 children over two years and recruited six volunteer tutors.
BeforeReferences available on request. Photo attached. Date of birth.
AfterName, city, phone, email, LinkedIn and GitHub, and nothing that invites bias.

Why Choose Us

Why Choose
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Partner with us to craft a student resume that gets read all the way through. A small investment in your first career move.

Student and New Grad Expertise

Writers who have hired new grads and know what a co-op coordinator forwards and what a campus recruiter skims past.

60-Day Interview Guarantee

Land an interview within 60 days or get a full refund and an expert rewrite, on every package at every level.

ATS and Co-op Portal Optimization

We keyword-optimize your resume for the co-op portals, the new grad program screens and the applicant tracking systems used in Canada.

Fast Turnaround

Most student resumes are delivered in 2 to 3 business days, with a 24-hour rush for a co-op posting that closes on Friday.

Priced for a Student Budget

From $99, with the same writer, the same guarantee and the same price every other client pays, at every level.

Led by the Founder

A team led by Khaqan Chaudhry, who has sat on the hiring side of the desk, not a content farm.

Zero Risk to You

If you don't land an interview in 60 days, we will

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Either the resume works or you get your money back and a free rewrite. Every package, at every level, including your first one.

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What Our Clients Say

5.0 from 236 verified Google reviews
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Fahr Alnasir
Digital Health Student
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★★★★★

“Khaqan was a tremendous help especially when I was in a real rush. He was efficient, attentive, and precise in delivering exactly what I needed.”

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Kush Pandya
Computer Programming Student
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★★★★★

“I had a great experience working Khaqan. He was professional, easy to communicate with, and understood what I was looking for in my resume. The final version looked much more polished and clearly highlighted my strengths. I appreciate the effort and would definitely recommend them to others looking to improve their resume.”

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Huzaifa Khan
Software and IT Graduate
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★★★★★

“He did an amazing job on my resume and cover letter. He was fast, detailed, and really elevated my experience in a way that looks polished and professional. Highly recommended! …”

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Diana Giday
Master’s Program Applicant
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“I’m really glad I had the opportunity to work with khaqan on my resume and SOP for my master’s program. He is very punctual, respectful, and professional in his work. I truly appreciate his dedication and the quality of his service. I highly recommend him to anyone looking for career growth or related services. I always return to him whenever I need assistance. Thank you for your excellent work and professionalism!”

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Noah Tewelde
Graduate School Applicant
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★★★★★

“I am very satisfied with the service that was provided to me regarding my resume. Khaqan was very clear and understanding as to what and how I wanted to improve in my resume.”

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Your Writer

Meet Your Resume Writer

Elite Resume Writer is a writer-led studio, not an anonymous content farm. Your resume is written under one roof by a small team of certified writers, led by founder Khaqan Chaudhry, the same Khaqan clients thank by name in the reviews above. The same team writes your resume, cover letter and LinkedIn profile together, so every document tells the same story and nothing contradicts.

“I’ve sat on the other side of the hiring desk. I know exactly what makes a recruiter stop scrolling.”
Khaqan Chaudhry · Founder & Lead Resume Strategist · View LinkedIn profile

Not sure a professional resume is worth it at this stage? Book a free 30-minute call or phone 647-470-9163, and you talk to the writer, not a call centre. More about the team and how we work.

Every Situation

Resumes We Write for Students and New Grads

Pick the application in front of you. We write all eight, in the format that reader expects.

First Co-op Term

Your first co-op application, with no work experience to lean on. We turn coursework, labs and projects into evidence and format it the way the portal wants.

Coursework as EvidencePortal FormatOne Page

Internship Applications

Summer internships, FSWEP and Canada Summer Jobs postings each screen differently. We write to the posting and keep the file ready for the next one. Federal postings pair with our Ottawa resume writing page.

Summer InternshipsFSWEPCanada Summer Jobs

New Grad Programs

The bank, Big Four and tech new grad programs open in September and close fast. A resume and cover letter built for their screens and their deadlines.

September DeadlinesATS KeywordsCover Letter

First Full-Time Job

Degree first, then every job, project and result that proves you are ready for an entry-level role, written in the words the posting uses.

Degree FirstEntry-Level KeywordsReal Results

Working While You Study

Part-time and campus jobs while you study: a one-page resume with an availability line and the retail, service and campus experience that counts.

Part-Time and Campus JobsAvailability LineQuick Turnaround

Graduate and Professional School

A resume for a master’s, law or medicine application leads with research, awards and the work that shows you can finish. For a full academic CV, see our CV writing service.

Research and AwardsMaster’s and LawAcademic CV

College Diploma and Trades Graduates

Placements, apprenticeship hours, certifications and safety tickets, laid out so a shop or a site manager finds them in one read.

PlacementsCertificationsSafety Tickets

Second Career and Mature Students

Back at college after years of work? We put the new program first and turn the years before it into an asset rather than a gap.

Program FirstExperience ReframedNo Gap

Every Program

What an Engineering, Business, Nursing or Computer Science Resume Has to Show

Every program is judged on its own evidence. Find yours below to see what a co-op coordinator or campus recruiter expects the resume to prove, and what we put on page one.

Co-op and design work

Engineering Co-op Resume

An engineering co-op resume is read for tools and projects before anything else: the CAD, simulation and programming you can use, the design courses behind them and the capstone or club build that proves it. We lead with the toolset and the project results, then the work terms.

Code that ships

Computer Science and IT New Grad Resume

A computer science or IT resume is scanned for languages, frameworks and a GitHub that shows finished work. We lead with the stack you have shipped in, the projects and hackathons behind it, and any co-op, internship or capstone client, in the order the posting lists them.

Numbers and tools

Business, Accounting and Finance Resume

Business, accounting and finance recruiters read for Excel, the analysis you have done with it, and the results of any co-op, case competition or campus club you ran. We lead with the tools and the numbers, then the CPA or CFA path if you are on one.

Placements and registration

Nursing and Health Sciences Resume

A new grad nursing or health sciences resume is read for clinical placements, hours, units and the registration exam you are sitting. We lead with the placements and the skills each one gave you, then the certifications. See our nursing resume page for the full picture.

Lab and research

Science and Lab Resume

A science resume for a lab, a research assistant post or graduate school is read for techniques, instruments and the research you contributed to. We lead with the methods you can run unsupervised, then the thesis, the posters and the supervisors who would vouch for you.

Skills, not the degree name

Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Resume

An arts or social sciences degree opens doors only when the resume translates it: research, writing, analysis, languages and the campus and community work that shows you can deliver. We lead with the skills the posting asks for and prove each one with a project or a job.

Hours and tickets

Trades and Technology Diploma Resume

A trades or technology diploma resume is read for the placement hours, the certifications and the safety tickets, then the equipment you have run. We lead with the tickets and the hours, so a site supervisor sees in one read that you can start on Monday.

Placements and people

Education and Social Services Resume

Teacher’s college applications, early childhood education and social service work are read for placements, the ages and populations you worked with and the certifications behind you. We lead with the placements and what you were trusted to do in them.

Not sure which one you are? Send us the posting and we will tell you, no charge.

The Craft

What Goes Into a Student Resume That Gets Read

Whichever application you are chasing, our student resume writers build it the same way: the structure below, the Canadian conventions we write to, and none of the mistakes that get a first resume set aside. It is how our student and new grad resume writing service works in every province.

What each part of your student resume has to do

  1. 01

    The Header and Profile

    Name, city, phone, email, LinkedIn, and a GitHub or portfolio if you have one, then two lines that say your program, your year and what you are applying for. No objective statement, no photo, no date of birth.

  2. 02

    The Education

    Program, school and expected graduation, then the courses, projects and awards that match the posting. Education sits above the jobs until you have a year of full-time work.

  3. 03

    The Experience That Counts

    Co-op terms, internships, campus and part-time jobs, each opening with what you did and closing with a number, most recent first.

  4. 04

    The Projects, Volunteering and Skills

    The capstone, the hackathon, the club you ran, the certifications and the tools, ordered to match the posting rather than the order you learned them.

The Canadian student resume conventions we write to

1 pg

One page, two at most

One page until you have a co-op or two behind you. Job Bank caps everyone at two, and a student resume almost never needs the second.

Edu

Education first

Program, school and expected graduation above the jobs, until you have a year of full-time work.

No

No photo, no age, no SIN

Job Bank: a photo is not the norm in Canada and can lower your chances. No age, no SIN, no marital status.

Recent

Reverse chronological

Most recent term or job first, dates aligned, and high school only in first year.

Numbers

Numbers even in retail

Shifts, customers, cash handled, people trained, hours volunteered. Every line ends on one.

Match

Skills in the posting’s words

The tools and competencies the posting names, spelled the way it spells them.

PDF

PDF unless the portal asks for Word

Most co-op portals take a PDF and some ATS screens want Word, so you get both.

Cdn

Canadian spelling and dates

Colour, centre, licence, and dates written the way a Canadian employer writes them.

The mistakes your student resume will not make

The mistakeWhat we seeWhat yours does
1

The objective statement

“To obtain a position where I can grow” tells the employer what you want, not what they get.
Yours opens with a two-line profile that says what you study and what you can do.
2

The everything list

Grade 10 awards, every shift job since high school and a hobbies list, all at the same weight.
Yours keeps what this posting cares about and fits on one page.
3

The duty list

“Responsible for serving customers”, with no number anywhere on the page.
Yours closes every line on a result, even a retail one.
4

The missing project

The capstone that was the most relevant thing you have done, left off because it was not a job.
Yours puts the project where a recruiter will read it.
5

The template trap

A two-column design the co-op portal cannot parse, so half the resume never reaches a person.
Yours is one column with standard headings, so the software reads all of it.
Whatever application you are chasing, your student resume leads with the evidence that reader is looking for.
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No experience?

You have more to show than you think.

A first resume is not about a blank page. It is about counting the right things. We find what you have already done and write it the way an employer reads it.

What counts as experience
  • Co-op terms, internships and summer jobs
  • Campus and part-time jobs, including retail and food service
  • Volunteering, clubs, teams and the events you ran
  • Class projects, labs, capstones and hackathons
  • Caregiving, a side business or work in a family business
What comes out
  • The objective statement
  • High school detail after first year
  • The photo, the date of birth and the references
  • A hobbies list, a full address and a two-column template
What stays
  • Your voice and the words you would use in an interview
  • The numbers: shifts, customers, hours, marks, people
  • The tools you have actually used, named the way the posting names them
  • Your real graduation date and your real availability

Whether you call it a student resume, a new grad resume or an entry-level resume, the answer is the same document: one page, Canadian format, built for the posting in front of you.

It matters where the co-op term goes: among 2015 graduates, 88% of those who did work-integrated learning found a job related to their field, against 71% of those who did not (Statistics Canada).

Recent Work

Students and New Grads We Have Written For

These are real engagements. We do not name clients or schools, but the programs and the targets are exactly as they were.

  • Digital Health studentFirst co-op application
  • Urban Planning studentTransportation and land-use planning co-op
  • Computer Programming studentCapstone project and developer role
  • Software and IT graduateBusiness analyst, IT support and developer versions
  • Business graduate, two degreesCredit risk and policy analyst
  • Analytics graduateData and business analyst resumes, plus one-page versions for job fairs
  • Retail associateMoving into pharmacy assistant roles
  • Veterinary program graduateAnimal care clinic

Most of the people we write for at this stage have more to show than they think. The work is to make coursework, co-op terms and part-time jobs read as evidence.

The Student Job Market Right Now
12.9%unemployment rate for Canadians aged 15 to 24 in August 2026, against a pre-pandemic average of 10.8%
9.2%unemployment rate for returning students aged 20 to 24 this summer, down from 12.3% a year earlier
4.9unemployed Canadians for every vacancy that asks for a bachelor’s degree or higher, the most crowded tier of the market
Nearly five unemployed degree holders for every degree-level opening, and a summer market that finally loosened for 20- to 24-year-olds: the resume decides who gets the callback. Sources: Statistics Canada, The Daily, 4 September 2026 and The Daily, 15 September 2026

One Application, Three Documents

Resume, Cover Letter and LinkedIn: What a Student Needs and When

Most co-op portals want two documents and most campus recruiters check a third. We write all three to match.

The document of record

Student Resume

Who reads it

The co-op coordinator, the ATS and the hiring manager, in that order, and every one of them in under a minute.

The explanation

Cover Letter

Who reads it

Co-op portals and new grad programs usually require one, and it is where a project or a course gets explained to a person.

The search result

LinkedIn Profile

Who reads it

Recruiters searching for new grads by school, program and skills, and the hiring manager who looks you up before the interview.

FAQ

Student Resume Writing Service
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Everything you need to know about our student and new grad resume writing service

Our student and new grad resume writing starts at $99 with the Essential package. The Premium package ($129) adds a cover letter and the Elite package ($199) adds the LinkedIn profile as well, and every package carries the 60-day interview guarantee with a full refund and a free rewrite. It is the same price every client pays, at every level; some services charge $300 to $500 for a new grad resume, and the difference is overhead, not the writer. Compare the three on our packages and prices page.
Use it. A career centre review tells you what is wrong with the resume you wrote; we write the document, to the posting you send us, in 2 to 3 business days, and we carry the risk with the 60-day interview guarantee. Most students who come to us have already had the free review and want the finished resume rather than another list of things to fix. The free resume review on this site works the same way, with an ATS test included, if you want a second opinion first.
If your resume opens with an objective statement, lists duties with no numbers, leaves off your best project or uses a two-column template the co-op portal cannot parse, usually yes. Co-op postings and new grad programs draw hundreds of applications and close within days, and the screen is done by software and a coordinator with a minute per file. A written resume at $99 costs less than one missed posting, and unlimited revisions for two weeks plus the 60-day guarantee keep the risk on our side.
Count what you have already done. Co-op terms, internships, campus and part-time jobs, volunteering, clubs, class projects, labs and capstones are all experience to an employer if they are written as results: what you did, for whom, and the number that proves it. Put education first, with the courses and projects that match the posting, then the jobs, then projects and skills. Drop the objective statement, the photo and the high school detail, and keep it to one page.
A two-line profile that says your program, your year and what you are applying for; education with your school, program, expected graduation, relevant courses and awards; every co-op term, internship, campus and part-time job with a result attached; projects, volunteering and the clubs or teams you ran; then skills, in the words the posting uses, and the certifications behind them. Leave out the objective statement, the photo, your date of birth, your SIN, references and a hobbies list.
One page until you have a co-op term or two and a year of full-time work behind you, and never more than two. Job Bank tells every Canadian job seeker to keep it to two pages, and a coordinator reading two hundred co-op applications does not turn to page two. The length is not the problem most students have; the order is. Education first, then experience, then projects and skills, with the strongest evidence for this posting in the top third of the page.
Put the GPA on if it helps you: 3.5 and above on a 4.0 scale, or 80% and above, and any time the posting asks for it. Leave it off otherwise, and never round it up. List the four to six courses that match the posting, not the whole transcript, and name the project, lab or case from each that proves you can do the work. Once you have a year of full-time experience, the courses come off and the GPA usually follows.
As a job, not as a course. List each work term under Experience with the employer, your title, the city and the dates, then two to four lines that say what you did and what changed: the tool you built, the process you improved, the number that moved. Write “Co-op” or “Work Term” in the title if the portal expects to see it. A co-op term with results beats a retail job with duties, so it goes above the retail job even when the retail job is more recent.
Yes, and each one is written to its screen. Co-op portals want a one-column resume with standard headings and, usually, a cover letter. Federal internships through FSWEP and Canada Summer Jobs postings screen on stated criteria. The bank, Big Four and tech new grad programs open in September, close within weeks and run every application through an applicant tracking system before a person reads it. Send us the posting and we write to it, with a 24-hour rush when the deadline is close.
It can draft one, and co-op employers can tell. AI writes fluent generalities because it does not know your courses, your projects or which of your results this posting cares about, and it cannot ask. Some employers now run AI detectors on co-op applications, and a resume that reads like a template gets the same treatment as one. Our writers interview you for the details, write the document in your voice and format it for the software that screens it.
The idea that a recruiter decides in about seven seconds whether to keep reading. Job Bank puts the average skim at 30 seconds, and for a co-op coordinator with two hundred files it can be less. Either way the decision lands on the top third of page one: your name, your program, your two-line profile and the first lines of education and experience. We build that top third to survive the scan and the rest of the page to reward the reader who keeps going.
Yes. Most co-op portals and new grad programs require a cover letter, and it is where a project or a course gets explained to a person rather than a screen; the Premium package includes one written to your posting. Recruiters search LinkedIn for new grads by school, program and skills, and most students have an empty profile or none at all; the Elite package includes a headline, About section and experience entries that match your resume. See our cover letter writing service and LinkedIn optimization pages for the details.
If you are applying through a co-op portal or to a new grad program, you will almost certainly need a cover letter, so the Premium package ($129) is the sensible choice. If recruiters will look you up, and for a first full-time role they will, the Elite package ($199) adds the LinkedIn profile. The Essential package ($99) is the resume alone, for a part-time or campus job or when you already have the other two. Every package includes unlimited revisions for two weeks and the 60-day guarantee.
Yes. A resume for a master’s, law or medicine application leads with research, awards, publications and the work that shows you can finish what you start, and we write it in the format the program asks for. If the program wants a full academic CV rather than a resume, with every publication, conference and appointment, see our CV writing service. Two of the reviewers on this page came to us for exactly this.
Your first draft arrives within 2 to 3 business days of your order, and a 24-hour rush is available for $25 when the posting closes sooner. Send the posting with your order so the first draft is already written to it. We write for students and new grads in every province and territory, entirely by phone, email and video. Call 647-470-9163 if you are not sure the timing works.

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