Graduate student resume template
Graduate work produces a great deal of material and very little of it belongs verbatim on a resume. This template keeps research, methods, teaching and publications in structured sections — and lets you compress or expand each depending on whether the reader is academic or industrial.
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Sections that carry graduate work
Structure separates the research from the noise.
- Research focus: one paragraph, jargon-free, with the practical question
- Methods and tools: statistics, lab techniques, programming, instruments
- Teaching and supervision, including group sizes
- Publications, posters and talks — full list or selected
- Grants, scholarships and awards with amounts and years
Write the research so a non-specialist gets it
A hiring manager outside your field decides in seconds whether your work is relevant. Lead with the problem and the outcome, then the method. The assistant flags jargon that will not survive that first read.
Two documents, one profile
Keep an academic long-form CV and a two-page industry resume from the same data. Switching between them changes what is shown, not what you have to maintain.
Frequently asked questions
- How long should a graduate resume be?
- Two pages for industry roles; an academic CV can run longer because the publication list is expected.
- Do I list every publication?
- For industry, select three to five relevant ones and link the full list.
- Where does teaching experience go?
- Under Experience if it was paid and substantial, otherwise in its own Teaching section.
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