The Instant Résumé Templates website (http://www.instantresumetemplates.com) provides a whole series of American-style résumés (186 according to the web site) that can be used with just a little modification. If you are looking for a job, these templates can save you a lot of time.
Here are two templates that would be helpful for college students looking for their first job:
http://www.instantresumetemplates.com/preview/College_Student_Resume
http://www.instantresumetemplates.com/preview/Entry-Level_Resume
One especially thoughtful feature is that the site provides Microsoft Word .DOC files (97-2003 version), so they are usable with most word processors, even if you don't have Microsoft software.
Notes:
Objective means what kind of job you want. It's a good idea to have more than one résumé, one for each type of company: the objectives for a web page design company would of course look different from the objectives for a clothing manufacturer.
A skillset is a group of related skills, for example HTML coding, SEO and javascript might go together because they are all useful for web page design.
