When it comes to apply for an industry job, many PhD scholars think that more is better, but the fact is less is more. Adding unnecessary things to your resume will not impress a recruiter or hiring team. You must remember that all the years that you have spent in completing your PhD will come down to a few seconds when your resume is presented on the table of recruiters. They will scan through your resume in hardly five to six seconds and pick your skills that will help them analyse whether or not you are suitable for a position in industry. Here are the things that you should not include in your resume when it comes to put in for a job at industry. 

Your Job Duties

Your industry resume is not like an academic resume. You should talk about your achievements instead of what you did during academia. Recruiters always try to know how you can give benefits to them. Your hiring by an industry is a cost, and recruiters will scrutinise whether you will give them return more than the cost or not. So when you prepare an industry resume you should mention your accomplishments, not how you achieved them. Don’t include keywords like job duties and responsibilities included. You should read some books that help you understand how to handle recruiters, prepare an admirable resume, industry resume templates, behavioural preparation, and of course salary negotiation ways.

Objective Statement

Don’t write an objective statement in your resume otherwise it will box you into a corner. You should emphasise on your achievements instead. Present them in an attractive way to grab recruiters attention. Use bullet points and numerical digits. You should mention your all-round achievements, industry-related skills, and summaries of successful projects. This style presentation of a resume instantly grabs attention of managers. So if you don’t want to be overlooked by a quick glance of managers, follow this strategy.

Publications

Always bear in mind that you can’t leave a mark on recruiters with your publications. Even R&D managers don’t pay attention to publications. They want to know your experience and skills over your academic performance. So avoid bragging about your publications. Emphasise on your skills instead. 

Impersonal Greeting

Don’t use impersonal greetings such as Dear Sir or To Whom It May Concern on the top of your CV. you should use personal greeting instead. Most time industry jobs are given to referrals. You should try to know about the hiring manager of a company where you are applying for a job. However, this is possible only with the help of networking. Expand your network on social media platforms, attend face-to-face conferences, events, and job fairs. You will come to know about several companies, and then you can find HR managers of those companies. Try to connect with them on social media platforms like LinkedIn. Start a professional chat with them. You will be able to know more about companies and vacant positions. This will help you give personal greeting on the top of your cover letter. 

Writing Your CV as an Article

As recruiters spend very short time on scanning resumes so your CV should not be brimmed with long tedious paragraphs. Instead of writing long and dense texts you should note down everything in bullet points. This will help recruiters to quickly glance at your skills. Don’t use small fonts and styles that are difficult to read by recruiters. 

So bear these points in your mind while drafting an industry resume. 

Are you an author, looking for a journal publisher’s approval? Are you a research/PhD fellow and want to publish your research paper in some prominent journal? If the answer of the questions are in ‘yes’, then you must know how to sell the manuscript to the publisher and get it approved. You might have put your best ever efforts in accomplishing the writing of the manuscript. But, all your hard work may go in vein if you can’t reach to your targeted readers.

Everyone wants to publish his or her write –up in some prestigious and important journal, but sometimes authors fail to catch the eye of the journal publisher. The reason lies in the approach of how you present yourself to the publisher. When, you approach a journal publisher, you need to write a cover letter.

The cover letter is the first impression that the publisher will get about you and your work. But, it has been seen, majority people fail to write a proper and smart cover letter.

Cover letter is not a place to show your linguistic skill; rather you have to describe your knowledge, abilities and thought process here. There should be a personal touch in the tone of the write up. You should neither use too generic or too complex words; try to keep it simple, straight forward and crisp.

Apart from this, each and every journal publisher prefer the cover letter to be written in their specified format, you have to keep it in mind too. Following are some of the tips for writing a proper cover letter:

• Include the name, contact details, qualification, designation and places of work of the author
• Include your subscription number of that particular journal
• Mention the title of the study and year of completion. Generally, some journals don’t publish an article if its more than 5 years old

One of the things that students will have to do when they are preparing their dissertation is write the empirical evaluation. So, what are the steps that they should take for completing this task?

1. The first thing they should do is to state their hypothesis. This should be done clearly and cogently.

2. The second step to take is to explain and justify the statistical processes and research methods that are employed for the project.

3. The third thing to do is to present the results in an attractive and interesting manner.

4. Tables can be used. But they should be used judiciously. They should not be used where they are not needed. Too many tables and graphs can ruin the project.

5. The tables that are being used should be relevant to the theory and the hypothesis that is being tested. If they are not relevant then do not use them.

6. If the results have been replicated with some other data or technique then that method should be mentioned in the footnote.

7. The researcher should tell the readers very clearly how his hypothesis fared. Was it successful or was it not successful. Was he right or was he wrong. No information should be held back from the reader.

8. There will be literature references in most chapters. They should be either parenthetical or they should only be limited to technical matters.

9. Many students would be doing some kind of qualitative research. This could be in the form of case studies as well. In this case also the results should be presented in the same manner as it is presented for other kinds of studies.

10. Finally the writing should be clear and cogent, which at the same time uses the jargon that has been prescribed for that particular discipline.

One important thing or advice which no gives for a student preparing for PhD is to constantly monitor the thesis report. Although a PhD is done over a period of three to five years, often students neglect the final thesis report and do not lay much importance on it. One must constantly monitor the progress of the report which will surely help in submitting the thesis well before the dead line. But most of the students start preparing the report just a few weeks or few months before making the task more complicated. This leaves them with tight schedules making them with less concentration on quality and more tensed on meeting the deadlines. By putting down a hard and perfect schedule and following and sticking to the plan will help students accomplish the task of thesis writing more easy and finally save a lot of time and money and reduces the burden also.

Scheduling helps not only in finishing the report week before the deadline but also leaves plenty of time for corrections and additions. Sticking yourself to the schedule is really difficult but once you keep doing it. you would be finally relieved of tensions and targets. Even if you have outsourced your thesis to some professional, make sure you keep in touch with the writer and get weekly updates or daily updates if possible. If you just get a monthly update and finally if you find that the deadlines are approaching you would be really tensed. So keep yourself sticking to the deadlines. Also keep posting the report to your supervisor constantly. This will helps you in getting the perfect feedback at the right time so that you can rework on it immediately without any delay. This also leaves a good impression on the supervisor. With so many advantages, it’s better to lay out a plan, stick to the deadline and constantly monitor the progress of the thesis to gain good grades.