School counselor resume examples from 2025
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How to write a school counselor 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: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in school counselor-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
Hiring managers spend under a minute reviewing resumes on average. This means your summary needs to demonstrate your value quickly and show why you are the perfect fit for the school counselor position.Please upload your resume so Zippia’s job hunt AI can draft a summary statement for you.
List the right project manager skills
Many resumes are filtered out by hiring software before a human eye ever sees them. A robust Skills section can let recruiters (and bots) know you have the skills to do the job. Here is how to make the most of your skills section:
- Look at the job listing and skills listed. You need to include the exact keywords from the job description to get your resume in front of an actual human. Do you have those skills? Fantastic! Be sure to list them.
- Include as many relevant hard or technical school counselor skills as possible for each job you apply to.
- Be specific with the skills you have and be sure you are using the most up to date and accurate terms.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on a school counselor resume:
- Mental Health
- Community Resources
- Crisis Intervention
- Professional Development
- Behavioral Issues
- CPR
- Social Work
- Child Abuse
- Conflict Resolution
- Financial Aid
- K-12
- IEP
- Academic Performance
- Career Planning
- Community Agencies
- Student Achievement
- Substance Abuse
- Homework Assignments
- Pre-K
- Blended Learning
- Career Development
- Classroom Management
- Social Development
- Course Selection
- SST
- Guidance Curriculum
- Kindergarten
- Academic Issues
- Group Sessions
- Applied Behavior Analysis
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How to structure your work experience
A work experience section is a vital part of your resume because it shows you have the experience to succeed in your next job.
- Put your most recent experience first. Prospective employers care about your most recent accomplishments the most.
- Put the 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. This means if you're a fairly experienced worker, you might need to leave off that first internship or other positions in favor of highlighting more pertinent positions.
How to write school counselor experience bullet points
Your resume is your chance to show your biggest accomplishments. Don't just list your job responsibilities, instead take the opportunity to show why you're really good at what you do. Here is how you do that:
- Start with strong action verbs like managed, spearheaded, created, etc. Your goal is to show what you did and verbs will help demonstrate your contributions.
- Use numbers to quantify your achievements. Did you save time with a new report? Increase revenue? How large was the team you managed?
- Keep it concise. You're highlighting your achievements. Consider if all details you are sharing are relevant, or can be written more efficiently.
Here are great bullet points from school counselor resumes:
Work history example #1
School Counselor
Camp Systems International
- Supervised summer youth ages 10-17 Prepared lessons and taught animal science classes Certified in CPR
- Lived with and mentored girls aged 5-10 at a seven-week-long residential summer camp.
- Engaged campers in Circus Arts Activities throughout the day through one-on-one instruction and careful following of safety procedures.
- Provided classroom and individual guidance to grades Pre-k through 4th.
- Conducted weekly IEP group counseling for sixth grade students and individual counseling for middle and high school IEP students.
Work history example #2
Education Counselor
Children's Home Society
- Maintained daily, monthly, and annual clinical records in keeping with DMH, agency, and division policies and procedures.
- Trained in multiple disciplines in mental health including, but not limited to Crisis Prevention and CPR.
- Maintained First Aid and CPR Certifications, as well as PA Child Abuse, Criminal History and FBI Fingerprint Clearances.
- Certified, CPR/First Aid, Nonviolent Management of Aggressive Behavior, and Data Management.
- Supervised 10 Behavioral Health Counselors to ensure appropriate documentation was completed in adherence with COMAR regulations.
Work history example #3
Student Support Counselor
ADD
- Administered medications, performed daily ADL's, including communication with families and medical professionals.
- Trained in First Aid and CPR for Infant, Child and Adults.
- Assisted in ADL's and escorted clients into the community for shopping, 12-step meetings and other activities.
- Revised Contractor Management program that successfully withstood IOSHA scrutiny.
- Ensured prompt and accurate customer notification of various network and application outages via e-mail and/or voice mail communication.
Work history example #4
School Counselor
Horizon Health
- Trained incoming membership counselors and service representatives on effective sales and product demonstration techniques.
- Assisted the Primary Counselors in developing and evaluating treatment plans by implementing and teaching recovery principles.
- Attended Student Study or IEP meetings and offers suggestions for intervention plans, as appropriate.
- Supervised, physicians, LPC, LCSW, CADC and technicians.
- Provided counseling to groups through workshops and individualized counseling for an adult population.
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Add an education section to your resume
The education section should display your highest degree first.
Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and 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 for resumes:
Master's Degree in school counseling
Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, TX
2014 - 2015
Highlight your school counselor certifications on your resume
Certifications are a great way to showcase special expertise or niche skills. Some jobs even require certifications to be hired.
To list, use the full name of the certification and the organization that issued it, along with the date of achievement.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your school counselor resume:
- Pastoral Counseling Certification
- Certified Professional Counselor
- National Certified Counselor (NCC)
- First Aid, CPR and AED Instructor
- National Certified School Counselor (NCSC)
- Microsoft Certified Educator (MCE)
- Educational Certificate: K-12 (Ed:)
- Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF)
- Child Development Associate (CDA)
- Certified Planning Engineer (CPE)