Resume, Letter, Interview
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Free Resume Format
1. General Parts of the
Resume (for scientists):
A. Objective -- Include a brief
sentence fragment on your career goal. Brevity is important. Be sure
that the company to which you submit your resume has such a position.
For instance, if you state, "A research position in the pharmaceutical
industry." as your objective, make sure the company is a pharmaceutical
company with such positions.
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Examples |
"A research position in the pharmaceutical industry."
"A managment role in the petroleum industry."
"A sales position in a chemical distribution company." |
B. Education -- Summarize your
education with brief statements about each school or university
attended. They are listed in reverse chronological order.
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The general formula: |
full title of degree, major, minor if applicable, concentration
if applicable, date recieved |
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The next line: |
full name of school, city, state, country (if company is in
another country) |
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next line: |
GPA (if applicable, see below) |
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Example: |
Bachelor of Science with Honors, Chemistry, Environmental
Science Concentration, May 2000
Roanoke College, Salem, VA
GPA: 4.00 |
Note: You have some artistic freedom in how you highlight these
areas. It's generally accepted to bold the degree and major and to bold
the GPA. Naturally, if your GPA is less-than-noteworthy you will not
want to draw attention to it, and if it is below a 3.00 you will
probably not want to include it. In omitting your GPA you may want to
prepare to be asked about it at an interview. Underlining is generally
reserved for the "Experience" header and is not recommended in the
"Education" area.
C. Related Coursework -- Give the
employer a general idea of the courses that you have taken that will
help you in the respective line of work. If you state a sales
objective, marketing and business classes will be more important. If
you state a research objective, your advanced laboratory, science, and
math classes will be more important. List the most applicable classes
first. Remember that they assume you have taken more basic classes
(General Chemistry, Organic, Physics, Writing) and you do not
necessarily need to list these.
Example 1 -- Research company.
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Related Coursework: |
Honors Research, Independent Study (2), Advanced Inorganic
Chemistry, Advanced Organic Chemistry, Advanced Physical
Chemistry, Environmental Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry I,
Biochemistry II, Cell Physiology, Calculus I-III, Differential
Equations, Experimental Physics |
Example 2 -- Marketing position.
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Related Coursework: |
Marketing I-II, Advanced Microeconomics, Advanced
Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, International Trade, Organic
Chemistry I-II, Physical Chemistry I-II, Independent Study. |
D. Experience -- List your previous
employers in reverse chronological order. You do not have to list
burger flipping, lawn mowing, baby sitting, etc unless they are your
only experience or you accomplished something outstanding (managed a
Burger King for instance).
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General Formula: |
Title of the Position, Company, City, State, Dates Employed (all
underlined)
- bulleted sentence fragments describing duties and/or
accomplishments
- bulleted sentence fragments describing duties and/or
accomplishments
- etc. etc.
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Notes:
- Employers are looking for "action words" describing your
previous jobs. Words like, "led", "organized", "developed" are
looked highly upon. Many of them are listed at "actionwords.html."
Do not use the words, "I" or "We". Just list short fragments like,
"Implemented a computerized inventory system." and "Prepared
proteins in bulk from E. coli. overexpression."
Example:
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Experience: |
Research Associate, Merck Pharmaceutical Co., Newark, NJ
Summer, 1999
- Designed protocol for extracting drugs from rat tissue
using SFE.
- Prepared immunoassays for quantification of drug
concentrations in eluents.
- Participated in and presented research at weekly group
meetings.
- Worked closely with other scientists in developing
projects for approximately 15 interns.
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E. Publications
-- This is more important for scientists looking for work in industry.
List your publications in chronological order. You should use regular
JACS style citations. Include all articles submitted to refereed
journals and poster or oral presentations at meetings.
F. Other Categories
- Honors and Activities: List pertinent honors and
activities, especially honorary fraternities, academic clubs,
leadership positions, and awards. Other activities in which you
participated but did not lead that may not be directly pertinent may
be included as space permits. Remember, no employer will really
care whether you were on the ping-pong team, unless you founded it
or were the president.
- Interests -- You probably won't have room for this category, but
provide the employer with a brief list of your interests. Include
only items that make you seem intelligent, responsible, and/or
resourceful (troop 74 scoutmaster, reading, gardening) and not
questionable activites that may make you seem like a party animal or
couch potato (disco, watching TV, drinking, movies). Although the
responsible activities may make you sound boring, this is much more
preferable than seeming irresponsible in any way.
- Professional Profile -- This bulleted list would be included at
the beginning of your resume, after the objective. For all intents
and purposes it is a bulleted list of what you believe are your best
attributes and/or experiences. However, with science applications
it is best to let your experience and education speak for you. No
empolyer believes that you will be totally honest when
summarizing your own resume and at best only glances at this part of
the sheet.
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