Sales representative internship resume examples from 2025
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How to write a sales representative internship resume
Craft a resume summary statement
Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:
Step 1: Start with your professional title, or the one you aspire to.
Step 2: Detail your years of experience in sales representative internship-related roles and your industry experience.
Step 3: What are your biggest professional wins? Here is your opportunity to highlight your strongest accomplishments by placing them at the start of your resume.
Step 4: Don't forget, your goal is to summarize your experience. Keep it short and sweet, so it's easy for recruiters to quickly understand why you're a great hire.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some sales representative internship interviews.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
List the right project manager skills
Use your Skills section to show you have the knowledge and technical ability to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- Look to the job listing. You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description. Take note of the skills listed for the job.
- Put all relevant hard and soft skills in your skills section.
- Be specific. If you are too broad, you may not be giving the best picture of your skills and leave the hiring manager uncertain of your abilities.
- Be up to date. Software names change and companies merge. Don't look out of touch by being careless.
- Be accurate. Spelling and even upper or lowercase can dramatically change meanings. Make sure you are correctly listing your skills.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a sales representative internship resume:
- Customer Service
- Kids
- Sales Presentations
- PowerPoint
- Sales Process
- Outbound Calls
- Salesforce
- Inbound Calls
- Customer Complaints
- Cold Calls
- Market Research
- Press Releases
- Sales Reps
- Customer Issues
- Front Desk
- Customer Accounts
- Committee Hearings
- Customer Relations
- Administrative Tasks
- Customer Inquiries
- Legislative Research
- Product Knowledge
- Life Insurance
- Legislative Process
- Telephone Calls
- Sales Techniques
- Event Planning
- Local Businesses
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How to structure your work experience
Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.
Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the sales representative internship.
How to write sales representative internship experience bullet points
Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.
Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:
- Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
- Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
- Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.
This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.
Here are examples from great sales representative internship resumes:
Work history example #1
Sales Representative Internship
Ledbury
- Developed lasting relationships with customers, driving repeat business and referrals.
- Helped customer's establish new cell phone/Internet service, checked customers out through the POS System.
- Processed bill payments and any sales transactions using a POS system.
- Represented Wilson Staff at all golf related events throughout assigned territory.
- Developed and implemented communication strategies and information programs to maintain effective communication systems with management.
Work history example #2
Sales Representative Internship
Tyson Foods
- Managed sales and service in Tri-state retail and wholesale hardware accounts Earned sales award for best producing "big box chain"
- Researched competitive product lines and presented PowerPoint presentations to general manager and sales staff.
- Managed a territory with five distributors, accounting for 1.26 million in sales in the cleaning and janitorial supply industry.
- Provided detailed in-home consultations to clients.
- Developed relationships with key customers and vendors, providing proactive and accurate written and verbal communication.
Work history example #3
Sales Representative Internship (Part-Time) (Part-Time)
Cintas
- Developed relationships within the various positions in the many businesses contacted as well as within the Cintas office to expedite processes.
- Exceeded sales objectives* Multiple recognitions for Top Sales Performer* Mentee to Cintas Corporation Regional Sales Manager
- Followed the Cintas system to seek out and identified new uniform business accounts to grow sales.
- Rented work uniforms to auto repair, plumbing and HVAC industries and ESD laboratory coats to electronic and computer manufacturing businesses.
- Prepared proposals and testimonials showing the benefit of Cintas's Uniform Sales Program.
Work history example #4
Food Runner
Red Robin
- Ensured customers experienced a positive dining experience.
- Communicated between the kitchen and the servers in high pressure situations to maintain a calm and positive work atmosphere.
- Concentrated on offering a positive experience to all customers.
- Self-motivated, hard-working and highly trainable.
- Analyzed customer demographic with Microsoft Excel and compiled best-suited investment strategy for customer.
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Add an education section to your resume
Here is the best way to format your education section:
- Display your highest degree first.
- If you graduated over 5 years ago, put this section at the bottom of your resume. If you lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
- If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education.
- If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries from sales representative internship resumes:
Master's Degree in business
Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA
2018 - 2019
Doctoral Degree in communication
Pennsylvania State University, Main, PA
2016 - 2019
Highlight your sales representative internship certifications on your resume
Certifications are a great way to showcase special expertise or niche skills. Some jobs even require certifications to be hired.
Start simple. Include the full name of the certification. It's also good to mention the organization that issued the certification. Next, specify when you obtained the certification.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your sales representative internship resume:
- Certified Sales Professional (CSP)
- Certified Professional, Life and Health Insurance Program (CPLHI)
- Certified Medical Office Manager (CMOM)