Back Up All Strength/Skills You List with Evidence
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:42 am
You may not have paid positions to list as experience, but you really need to look at your academic career and all that you have done related to the position for which you are applying.
What original research did you conduct for you dissertation? A successful dissertation speaks to your ability to design a research project, implement it and analyze results of that research. What did you research contribute to your field?
Did you assist a full professor in your institution with major research? You can detail your task responsibilities for this project and speak to what you contributed specifically. Be honest and don’t exaggerate your role – you want to use that professor as a reference.
Have you had an internship? This is as good as real job experience, and you bahamas phone number list should highlight this prominently. Speak to your responsibilities but, more important, to what was achieved by projects on which you worked. Again, don’t exaggerate your role – you need the reference!
Have you performed as a teaching assistant? This will be a key piece of your CV if you are applying for an instructional position on higher education. If your institution had student evaluations at the end of courses, and yours were especially good, you need to highlight a summary of those evaluations and keep the documentation to back that up.
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Detail Relevant Coursework
Every position for which you apply will relate directly to certain coursework you have had and not to other courses.
Tweak every CV you submit to highlight more significantly that coursework that relates to the position opening.
Spend some time speaking to the details of related coursework and provide any portfolio insertions that speak to major papers or research that you completed as a result of those course assignments. A potential employer wants to know that you have the academic background that suits the position.
You cannot just say that you are strong in research methodologies related to the position. You must “show” this expertise with specific evidence.
Attach your “evidence” as an appendix to your CV
Provide reputable references who can attest to your expertise in specific skills required by this position. Attach letters from these individuals – professors, people who supervised your internship, etc.
What original research did you conduct for you dissertation? A successful dissertation speaks to your ability to design a research project, implement it and analyze results of that research. What did you research contribute to your field?
Did you assist a full professor in your institution with major research? You can detail your task responsibilities for this project and speak to what you contributed specifically. Be honest and don’t exaggerate your role – you want to use that professor as a reference.
Have you had an internship? This is as good as real job experience, and you bahamas phone number list should highlight this prominently. Speak to your responsibilities but, more important, to what was achieved by projects on which you worked. Again, don’t exaggerate your role – you need the reference!
Have you performed as a teaching assistant? This will be a key piece of your CV if you are applying for an instructional position on higher education. If your institution had student evaluations at the end of courses, and yours were especially good, you need to highlight a summary of those evaluations and keep the documentation to back that up.
Photo from Skilledup
Detail Relevant Coursework
Every position for which you apply will relate directly to certain coursework you have had and not to other courses.
Tweak every CV you submit to highlight more significantly that coursework that relates to the position opening.
Spend some time speaking to the details of related coursework and provide any portfolio insertions that speak to major papers or research that you completed as a result of those course assignments. A potential employer wants to know that you have the academic background that suits the position.
You cannot just say that you are strong in research methodologies related to the position. You must “show” this expertise with specific evidence.
Attach your “evidence” as an appendix to your CV
Provide reputable references who can attest to your expertise in specific skills required by this position. Attach letters from these individuals – professors, people who supervised your internship, etc.