The first resume is the hardest one to write, because the section everyone considers most important is the one you cannot fill. The way through is recognising that employers are looking for evidence of capability and reliability, and paid employment is only one source of that evidence.
Reorder the page
Put education near the top, since it is your strongest verifiable credential. Follow it with projects, then any experience you do have, then skills.
The standard order exists for people with careers. Yours should lead with whatever is strongest.
Treat coursework as work
A substantial project, dissertation or capstone is real work with a brief, constraints and a deliverable. Describe it that way: what the problem was, what you did, what the result was.
Name the tools and methods you used. That is what makes it searchable and credible.
Include everything that involved responsibility
Part-time retail, hospitality, warehouse shifts, family business work, care responsibilities, military service. These demonstrate reliability, working with people and handling pressure, which is a large part of what an employer is worried about with a first hire.
Describe them properly rather than apologetically. Handling a busy Saturday shift is real evidence.
Count volunteering and societies
Organising an event, running a society budget, coordinating volunteers, managing a social account for a local group. All of these involve deadlines, other people and outcomes.
The label matters less than the substance. Describe what you were responsible for and what happened.
Build one or two things on purpose
If your page is thin, the fastest fix is to create evidence. A small project completed and documented is worth more than another line of skills.
Choose something in the direction you want to work, finish it, and write it up in three lines. Finished and modest beats ambitious and abandoned.
Be specific about skills
A list of software names tells the reader nothing about your level. Say where you used each one and for what.
Avoid claiming proficiency in tools you have only opened. It surfaces in the first technical question.
Use the structure that carries meaning
For every entry, whatever the category, use the same shape: what the situation was, what you did, what changed. That structure is what interviewers listen for later, and building the habit now pays off.
Keep it to one page
One well-filled page reads as focused. Two thin pages read as padding. If you are struggling to fill one page, widen what counts rather than stretching the formatting.
Write a real cover letter
When your resume cannot carry the case, the letter matters more than it will at any later stage of your career. It is where you explain why you are applying here specifically and what you would bring. Spend the time.