How to prepare a brilliant CV for your graduate school applications:
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1. Place your name, address & contact information (email & phone no.) in the center.
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1. Place your name, address & contact information (email & phone no.) in the center.
Section 1: Education
Enlist your educational qualifications in the order of recency.
Enlist your educational qualifications in the order of recency.
Section 2: Awards & Honors
Mention all your academic & co-curricular awards here.
It can be scholarships, mentions, recognitions etc.
If you can quantify, do that!
Mention all your academic & co-curricular awards here.
It can be scholarships, mentions, recognitions etc.
If you can quantify, do that!
Section 3: Research interests:
4-5 keywords of your research interests aligning with the lab you're applying.
4-5 keywords of your research interests aligning with the lab you're applying.
Section 4: Research Experience
Enlist the research experiences chronologically (or in the order of relevance) & the highlight your key contributions to the project.
If you can quantify your contributions using numbers, figures, statistics or percentages, leverage that!
Enlist the research experiences chronologically (or in the order of relevance) & the highlight your key contributions to the project.
If you can quantify your contributions using numbers, figures, statistics or percentages, leverage that!
Section 5: Publications:
Cite them using a popular referencing style like APA, Chicago, MLA etc.
Cite them using a popular referencing style like APA, Chicago, MLA etc.
Section 6: Presentations
Cite using proper referencing style
Cite using proper referencing style
Section 7: Additional experiences
Any miscellaneous experience that may not be directly relevant to your PhD position but still demonstrates your capabilities, use this section to highlight them.
Any miscellaneous experience that may not be directly relevant to your PhD position but still demonstrates your capabilities, use this section to highlight them.
Section 8: Skills
If possible, categorise them into sub-sections.
If possible, categorise them into sub-sections.
Section 9: Relevant Coursework
Categorise the relevant courses undertaken (online/offline) in clusters.
Categorise the relevant courses undertaken (online/offline) in clusters.
Additional sections (if relevant)
β’ Voluntary experience
β’ Leadership experience
β’ Languages known
β’ Voluntary experience
β’ Leadership experience
β’ Languages known
Make sure your CV is monochromatic: Just black & white.
Colorful CVs don't look as professional.
Keep them precise but don't shy away from displaying the breadth of your skills & accomplishments.
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Colorful CVs don't look as professional.
Keep them precise but don't shy away from displaying the breadth of your skills & accomplishments.
Stay tuned for moreπͺπΌ
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