With no internship history, lead with coursework projects, then any paid work at all including retail and food service, then clubs where you owned an outcome. Write every bullet as action, result and number. Use the exact skill phrases from the posting. Keep it to one page, drop the objective statement, and cut skill rating bars. Reviewers spend under a minute per resume and are looking for evidence you have done something real, not for a prior internship title.
Every posting wants experience, and the only way to get experience is a posting. Reviewers know this. Nobody screening first year applicants expects a prior internship. They are looking for evidence you have done something real and can describe it clearly.
Here is what goes on the page.
Lead with coursework projects, written like work
Your strongest material is almost certainly a class project, and most students bury it under a line that reads "Relevant Coursework: CS 101, CS 201." A course list tells a reviewer nothing. A project tells them how you think.
Weak:
Relevant coursework: Database Systems, Statistics
Strong:
Campus dining demand analysis. Interviewed 12 students and analysed two semesters of swipe data in SQL. Found that weekend staffing was set against weekday patterns. Recommendation adopted by dining operations for spring.
Same class. One reads as a syllabus, the other as a work sample.
Retail and food service count
Students hide these jobs because they feel unrelated. Reviewers read them as proof you have shown up somewhere on time and handled pressure, which is more than many applicants can demonstrate.
Describe the responsibility, not the title:
Barista, campus café. Ran the opening shift alone four days a week, handling roughly 120 transactions before 10am. Trained two new hires on the till.
That is reliability, throughput and training, from a job you might have left off entirely.
Clubs count only when you owned an outcome
"Member of Finance Club" is filler. "Ran the stock pitch competition and grew signups from 20 to 65 by moving recruitment into the dorms" is a result.
If you were a member and nothing more, put it in a one line list at the bottom and spend the space elsewhere.
Every bullet needs action, result and number
A bullet with no number in it is an opinion. Numbers do not have to be impressive, only concrete. Twelve interviews. Two semesters of data. Twenty to sixty five. Specific beats large.
Mirror the posting's exact words
If the posting says "stakeholder interviews," your bullet should say stakeholder interviews, not "talked to people involved." This is not gaming a filter. It is making sure both a keyword search and a skimming human find the thing you actually did.
What to leave off
The objective statement. "Seeking to leverage my skills" gets skipped by every reviewer. Use the space for a project.
Skill rating bars. "SQL: 80%" means nothing. Show the query you wrote.
High school, once you are past your first year.
Your photo, full address, and GPA if it is below roughly 3.3.
"References available upon request." Assumed.
One page
This is not a stylistic preference. Two pages with no experience reads as padding, and the second page does not get read.
The one hour version
Pick your best class project and write three bullets about it, with numbers.
Add any paid work, described as responsibility rather than title.
Add one club where you owned an outcome.
Open the posting you most want and move its exact skill phrases into your bullets, wherever they are true.
Cut everything else until it fits on one page.
That is a real resume. What usually stands between you and an interview is not your experience. It is whether the page makes the experience you have legible.