{"id":494,"date":"2021-03-19T17:36:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phdcareerguide.com\/?p=494"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T14:36:39","slug":"helpful-resume-tips-for-phds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phdcareerguide.com\/helpful-resume-tips-for-phds\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpful Resume Tips for PhDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Helpful_Resume_Tips_for_PhDs\"><\/span><u>Helpful Resume Tips for PhD&#8217;s<\/u><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_18 counter-hierarchy counter-decimal ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/phdcareerguide.com\/helpful-resume-tips-for-phds\/#Helpful_Resume_Tips_for_PhDs\" title=\"Helpful Resume Tips for PhD&#8217;s\">Helpful Resume Tips for PhD&#8217;s<\/a><ul class=\"ez-toc-list-level-3\"><li class=\"ez-toc-heading-level-3\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/phdcareerguide.com\/helpful-resume-tips-for-phds\/#PhD_Resume_Samples\" title=\"PhD Resume Samples\">PhD Resume Samples<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/phdcareerguide.com\/helpful-resume-tips-for-phds\/#How_to_List_PhD_in_Progress_on_a_Resume\" title=\" How to List PhD in Progress on a Resume\"> How to List PhD in Progress on a Resume<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/phdcareerguide.com\/helpful-resume-tips-for-phds\/#About_the_Author\" title=\"About the Author\">About the Author<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>So, you\u2019ve graduated with a PhD? After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-03459-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">years of uncertainty<\/a>, hard work, often teaching undergraduates on a shoestring stipend, you must be pleased with yourself but also now, frustrated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/mlr\/2015\/article\/stem-crisis-or-stem-surplus-yes-and-yes.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">relative paucity <\/a>of academic jobs (in a number of fields).\u00a0 Actually, tenure-based jobs have declined every year since \u201908, meanwhile, the number of newly qualified doctoral candidates continually rises, leading to the number of PhD\u2019s being roughly double that of open positions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2017\/11\/17\/decrease-number-openings-history-faculty-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2017\/11\/17\/decrease-number-openings-history-faculty-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Higher Ed<\/a><u>. <\/u><\/p>\n<p>What can do you do? Should you also expand your search into industry jobs in your field? The short answer is yes. Economic realities in a multi-polar world of shifting geopolitical influences in this young century mean you can never let any opportunity go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>Some PhD students\u2019 find that their downtime taken is consumed carefully trawling job postings, writing, and sending applications for these postings. They probably spend little time, if any, networking with those in their field. Instead, a job search strategy that is available to network is vital to land a new position.<\/p>\n<p>Simply feeding your past into the storage unit of a millions-strong online database like LinkedIn and waiting will be found wanting as a tenable strategy; you will very rarely be returned any positive communication.<\/p>\n<p>At the absolute bare minimum &#8212; which is not something you want to do &#8212; it is worth setting up keyword alerts and signing up for email job notifications in your chosen field or sub-fields &#8212; the main part of your job search strategy, again, should be networking in order to be in line for those job referrals. This is where you can really excel.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-496 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phdcareerguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" alt=\"Helpful Resume Tips for PhDs\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phdcareerguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phdcareerguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phdcareerguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phdcareerguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1.jpg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phdcareerguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/1.jpg?resize=850%2C850&amp;ssl=1 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kuwaiti Royalty, Mubarak Ali Al Sabah receiving his PhD from the University of Plymouth, UK <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creative_Commons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"PhD_Resume_Samples\"><\/span><strong>PhD Resume Samples<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Unlike much else you would have written in the last few years; your resume is not a peer-reviewed document. It\u2019s a compelling document intended to establish the fact you\u2019re most aptly qualified and prepared for a given role. Of course, this doesn\u2019t mean embellishing or falsifying your resume, but it does mean that experiences and accomplishments are positioned according to the result\/learning objectives you achieved in order to find a very tight fit for the desirable and essential aspects of the job description and you.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of good post-PhD or post-doc (or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/careers\/links\/file59340.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post-post-doc<\/a>) resumes can be found plentifully online, some of which more questionable than others. While not necessarily a gold standard, some of the criteria for quality in the post-PhD resume can be found from Harvard <a href=\"https:\/\/hwpi.harvard.edu\/files\/ocs\/files\/phd_resume_cover_letters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They suggest appropriate action verbs, formatting, and style options, as well as clarify how a CV is different from a resume. When it comes to industry, however, no one wants to consume a CV. In fact, if you submit a CV, your document will make friends with the trash can. A resume must therefore be concise.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, your resume\u2019s ability to land you an interview might be said to only as good as your networking abilities, both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apa.org\/ed\/precollege\/psn\/2018\/10\/networking-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">offline <\/a>and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwc.com\/c1\/en\/assets\/downloads\/networking_do.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> on<\/a>, as well as a host of other attitudinal, socio-economic, and behavioral factors.<\/p>\n<p>A softly-focused woman in a graduation cap and gown spies out of a telescope (CC-licensed).<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_List_PhD_in_Progress_on_a_Resume\"><\/span><strong> How to List PhD in Progress on a Resume<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_495\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-495\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-495 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phdcareerguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2.jpg?resize=485%2C275\" alt=\"Helpful Resume Tips for PhDs\" width=\"485\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phdcareerguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2.jpg?w=485&amp;ssl=1 485w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phdcareerguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2.jpg?resize=300%2C170&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A softly-focused woman in a graduation cap and gown spies out of a telescope (CC-licensed).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are many, obvious ways to list PhD in Progress on a resume &#8212; this article\u2019s intention is not to patronize you by listing them to you. After all, you have made it this far in your educational career.<\/p>\n<p>However, some hopefully valuable crucial do\u2019s and don\u2019ts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>If you&#8217;re still pursuing a degree, <em>do <\/em>it make clear that your education is in progress, in reverse chronological order (most recent first) including a detailed exposition of your current research, followed by a brief mention of master\u2019s and bachelor\u2019s degrees, ideally making links between all three).<\/li>\n<li><em>Don&#8217;t <\/em>lead with the education section of your resume if you have more than five years of experience in the workplace. Those interested in hiring you will be just as interested, if not more so, in your work history and what you learned about the successes in your career than in your journey through writing essays in higher education. It is also worth saying that if you have resided at multiple institutions to earn your degree &#8212; either for a visiting year or semester or because of transference &#8212; only write the institution that awarded you the degree.<\/li>\n<li>However, if it\u2019s the case you possess not as much as five years of experience working, there isn\u2019t a compelling case to include the date you acquired your degree within the education section of a resume. Practical experience is an important supplement in higher education.<em>Do <\/em>lead with educational history in an academic or scientific resume though as these domains tend to be more interested in your educational experience (including additional and\/or summer experience, internships, etc.) Do list degrees with more senior degrees first. Doctoral or terminal degrees should not be listed at the end.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About_the_Author\"><\/span><strong>About the Author<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Dustin Flick is a career coach in training that helps people clarify and execute their career goals. Almost all of his clients need help with their resume so he\u2019s researched dozens of resume writers and compiled a hand-selected list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/whatevercoach.com\/career\/top-rated-resume-writing-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top-rated resume writing services<\/a>, which he can feel comfortable referring his clients (and everyone else) to.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/phdcareerguide.com\/expert-networks-can-provide-a-high-paying-source-of-extra-income-for-phds\/\">Expert Networks Can Provide a High-Paying Source of Extra Income for PhDs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/phdcareerguide.com\/did-you-already-pass-an-applicant-tracking-system-ats\/\">Did You Already Pass an Applicant Tracking System (ATS)?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helpful Resume Tips for PhD&#8217;s Table of Contents Helpful Resume Tips for PhD&#8217;sPhD Resume Samples How to List PhD in Progress on a ResumeAbout the Author So, you\u2019ve graduated with a PhD? After years of uncertainty, hard work, often teaching undergraduates on a shoestring stipend, you must be pleased with yourself but also now, frustrated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[93,92],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/phdcareerguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Helpful-Resume-Tips-for-PhDs-phdcareerguide.com_.jpg?fit=600%2C381&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":501,"url":"https:\/\/phdcareerguide.com\/10-tips-to-prepare-your-phd-application\/","url_meta":{"origin":494,"position":0},"title":"10 Tips to Prepare Your PhD Application","date":"22.03.2021","format":false,"excerpt":"A PhD application is an essential process; however, you can do numerous things to make the process easier. 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