By May Li, PhD in Bio Career Center:-
Format
Top
1-Put your Name, in bold, large print. If you have PhD, be sure to include this.
2-Include your present residential address (street, city, state, zip code)
3-Under your name, put your personal email address and home or cell phone number(s) for contact information.
Career Summary:
1-Using a few bullets, highlight your scientific profile. This helps the reviewer to get an idea if the candidate has the general background and level of experience that they need.
2-If you know the position description you are applying for, be sure to bring out the areas of your background that are relevant to this position.
3-Keep this general and brief.
4-Do not write an objective. It could screen you out of an opportunity if misinterpreted or if the position doesn't line up perfectly.
Professional Experience/Position Held:
1-List each company/ institution first, starting with most recent.
2-Under the company heading, include the city and state and the years you worked there.
3-List your position title, and years served in each position.
4-In as much detail as possible, describe your responsibilities, functions and skills used.
5-If you supervised people, include the number and levels.
6-Highlight and quantify all your accomplishments in this role.
7-Highlight problems that you solved.
8-This part should reflect your strengths and showcase your true skills
9-Be brief, but informative and use bullets with short sentence descriptions
10-Continue this for each position held, in chronological order.
Education:
1-List your degrees obtained from most advanced (most recent) to least advanced, BS or BA
2-Include the university where each degree was obtained and if there was a thesis you can include the dissertation topic.
Publications & Patents:
1-These can be listed in chronological order, starting with the most recent.
2-If a manuscript is in press or submitted for publication it is fine to list it this way
3-It is advisable to put your name in bold when listing authors
Technical Skills:
1-Many academic resumes list only their position titles and publications
2-Listing technical skills is advisable especially for people coming out of academic settings
3-Hiring managers need to know what skills were used and for how long, so, if you leave this out, you will hurt your chances of having a call back
4-Be specific and as detailed as possible but keep this brief and to the point.
5-In industry, hiring managers look for all transferable skill sets.
6-The topic of research is just as important as the techniques used to arrive at these results, so a breakdown is important to help the reviewer make the right match.
7- List the type of equipment used and the latest technology your research team was involved with.
8-Find ways to distinguish your background from the multitude of others with similar backgrounds and sell your skills and expertise
9-For those of you who have begun to embark on managerial career track, your level of responsibilities, cross matrix management, supervising other junior scientists etc is important to include under each job title.
Cosmetics:
1-Make sure your resume is not too busy, and is eye catching
2-Use a font that distributes space evenly and is easy on the eyes
3-You may consider hiring a professional resume writing service but they will still ask you to list your skills and experience.
Length:
If you are an experienced professional with a long history of accomplishments your resume should reflect this.
1- Use more detail on the recent work you have done and be briefer with earlier work
2- Definitely include all the publications and patents, conferences where you presented an abstract or seminar.
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