Question:
I would highly appreciate any advise on how to create good
and readable Resume for soon be Ph.D. in experimental cond.matter
physics.
Those Resumes I came accross contained such a weird stuff as some
$99 travel grants back in 1988, long list of equipment which
I doubt ever been used, some very detailed references to very
particular machinery, membership in every alfa-beta-gamma society
given campus had, two weeks summer courses from 1976 and so on.
While it can well be true that some of it reflects professional
development history, for me it looks more like the history of
menthal disorder.
APS et al. gives a few resume writing tips but shows no good example.
Please feel free to send me personal e-mail with suggestions or/and
copies of your own resumes for artistic modification,
Answer:
Will your resume initially be screened by Personnel/Human Resources/Human Factors
Engineering/God knows what grandiloquent crap they title themselves? You would
do well to mention as little about education and physics as possible. Do you
play golf, appreciate single malt whiskies, know your cigars? Can you enumerate
the virtues of various men's suitings, leather braces, and health clubs?
If the Liberal Arts graduate who plucks your resume from the big IN BOX stack
doesn't get a woody by the end of the first short paragraph, you are dog meat -
"We will keep your resume on file for six months in the event that other openings
arise." You won't even be riding in the garbage routed through the corporate
shredder.
The object of a resume is to get an interview. Present yourself as something
unique and desirable. You can mumble about physics if and when you get to talk
with a corporate physicist. Babbling professional shibboleths in Personnel's
direction only makes them angry.
