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Every school counselor runs classroom guidance lessons and meets with students individually. What separates a resume is a specific result: an attendance rate that improved, a program you started that expanded district-wide, a caseload size you managed well. If you do not have a measurable outcome yet, caseload size and grade span still tell a hiring committee something concrete.
A principal or district HR office is often filtering for an exact license type and grade band before reading a single bullet. List your license, the issuing state, and the grades it covers clearly, along with your typical caseload size. If you are licensed in more than one state, say so.
QPR, ASIST, Youth Mental Health First Aid, CPI: districts increasingly require one of these and search for it by name. List each certification with the certifying body and year rather than a vague line about "crisis training."
A supervised internship, even unpaid, involved actual students, actual caseloads and actual crisis situations. List the setting, hours and what you actually did rather than treating it as a lesser line than paid work.
One page for a new counselor or anyone under roughly seven years of experience. Two pages becomes reasonable once you have moved into a lead, coordinator or director role, or have a certification and program history long enough that cutting it would remove information a hiring committee actually needs.
State the total hours and the settings you worked in (for example, "600-hour internship across elementary and middle school settings") rather than a detailed log. The number itself is what a licensing-conscious reviewer is checking for.
Describe your role and the scale of what you handled rather than the situations themselves: "served on the crisis response team during two building-wide incidents" or "coordinate safety planning for students identified through the district’s screening process." Confidentiality is expected in this field and a general description reads as appropriately professional, not vague.
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