Tips for including high school work experience on your resume after college?

I'll be graduating from college soon, and I'm updating my resume. I have some work experience from high school. Is it worth including that, or should I focus only on recent experiences? Any tips on how to present it if I do include it?

The decision to include high school work experience on your post-college resume often depends on the relevance of the experiences to the positions you're applying for. If the work experience aligns with your current career aspirations, it might be beneficial to include it. Alternatively, if you're lacking in relevant work experiences from college, high school experience can be beneficial to flesh out your resume.

If you choose to include your high school work experience, here's how you might go about it: List the role, company, and the dates you worked there, as with all work experiences. In the bullet points detailing the role, focus on transferable skills or responsibilities that are relevant to the job you're applying for. For instance, if you held a position as a cashier, you might emphasize your experience with customer service, money handling, and time management.

However, because this is a resume you'll be sending out after college, any high school work experience should be placed below any college experiences, internships, and relevant project work. Gradually, as you build more recent and relevant work or internship experience post-college, you would typically start removing high school experiences from the resume.

It's always essential to tailor your resume to the specific job you're applying for. So, evaluate each experience's relevance to the specific job and decide accordingly. If you can draw clear connections between your experiences and the skills required in the job description, then it's likely a good idea to include them. If not, you may want to omit them in favor of experiences that more directly align with the job.