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School Counselor resume keywords
The skills, tools and terms recruiters search for when hiring a school counselor, and a free check of which ones your resume is missing.
Districts look for certification, the grade levels you serve and familiarity with the ASCA model. Give your caseload, the programs you ran (college and career, social-emotional, crisis response) and outcome data.
Skills and keywords
Tools and software
Soft skills
Use the exact wording from the posting you are applying to. Only include what is true for you.
Example school counselor resume bullets
Keywords work best inside achievements. Each example pairs a keyword with a number:
- Provided academic advising and student scheduling for a caseload of 380 students in grades 9 to 12
- Raised FAFSA completion from 54% to 71% of seniors by running 12 FAFSA support workshops for families
- Delivered 60 classroom guidance lessons per year on social-emotional skills and career planning
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Where to put keywords
- Summary: your job title in the posting's words plus your two strongest matching skills.
- Skills section: tools and hard skills, spelled the way the posting spells them.
- Experience bullets: each important skill used in a sentence with a result. A skill that appears only in a list is weak evidence.
More in how to tailor your resume in 15 minutes and how to add numbers to your bullets.