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This page shows a full School Counselor resume with notes on each section, alongside 108 openings hiring now.

Open jobs

108

Most openings

New York

The example

A school counselor resume, in full.

Resume

Adaeze Mbeki

School Counselor — Secondary, Caseload of Four Hundred

Beaverton, Oregon

Professional Summary

School counselor in a comprehensive high school, carrying a caseload of roughly four hundred students across two grade levels. Built the school's post-secondary planning sequence and chairs the crisis response team.

Experience

School Counselor, Grades 11-12

Cedar Hollow High School • Beaverton, OR

Aug 2020 - Present

  • Counsel a caseload of roughly four hundred juniors and seniors, covering academic planning, post-secondary applications, and crisis referral.
  • Rebuilt the post-secondary sequence so financial aid work starts in the autumn rather than the spring, and completed applications rose across the cohort.
  • Chair the crisis response team and run the annual staff training on referral thresholds.

School Counselor, Grades 6-8

Willow Bend Middle School • Hillsboro, OR

Aug 2017 - Jun 2020

  • Served a middle school caseload of about three hundred, with a focus on transition support into high school.
  • Introduced a small-group programme for students with chronic absence, run with the attendance team rather than separately from it.

Education

Portland State University

Master of Science • School Counseling

Sep 2015 - Jun 2017

University of Oregon

Bachelor of Arts • Psychology

Sep 2011 - Jun 2015

Skills

Caseload managementPost-secondary planningCrisis referral and responseSmall-group counsellingAttendance interventionSection 504 planningCourse schedulingFamily consultationData-informed programme review

Certifications

Oregon School Counselor License

Oregon Teacher Standards and Practices Commission

Jul 2017

Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training

LivingWorks

Apr 2024

Section by section

What each part of this resume is doing.

Summary

The summary names the caseload and the level, because a School Counselor covering an elementary building does a different job from one running secondary scheduling.

Experience

Each entry separates counselling from the administrative load. A School Counselor whose entry reads only as scheduling and testing coordination looks like an administrator rather than a counsellor.

Skills

Skills name the frameworks and screening tools a School Counselor uses, since the interpersonal qualities every application claims cannot be verified from a page.

credentials

The certification is listed with the state that issued it, because a School Counselor works under a licence distinct from a teaching one and districts screen against it directly.

Before you apply

What K-12 hiring committees look for

A panel hiring a School Counselor checks the licence, then asks how you handle a crisis referral and who you escalate to. Evidence of running a programme rather than reacting to a queue is what separates candidates.

There are 108 open School Counselor roles, concentrated in New York.

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Common questions

Writing a school counselor resume.

Caseload size, the level you served, your licence, and the programmes you ran. There are 108 open School Counselor roles to match it against.

Not usually, though some states once required it. Lead with your counselling licence and supervised hours, because that is what a School Counselor application is screened on.

It decides whether you can be hired at all, and it does not transfer freely. Name your licence and its state, since most School Counselor postings sit in New York.