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From CV to resume – presenting your skills for non-academic jobs Dana and David Dornsife College Department of English February 22nd 4 pm Johannes V. Schmitt PhD Candidate – USC. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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From CV to resume – presenting your skills for non-academic jobs
Dana and David Dornsife CollegeDepartment of English
February 22nd4 pm
Johannes V. SchmittPhD Candidate – USC
Today’s Agenda:
1. Career Development (transferable skills, personal branding, etc.)2. Short case study: Humanities
Ph.D.s at Google3. CV vs. Resume4. Online Resources
The career development process
1. Discover your strengths
2. Communicate these strengths to others (resume)
3. Seek opportunities
What have I learned during my years in grad school?
‘I have learned to be very effective – I can pull off a presentation on almost any area on a very short deadline.’
‘I won’t have people fool me. I can tell if people know what they are talking about. Through constant interaction with students I have developed a very good sense of how committed someone is to a project or a goal.’
‘I have learned to be persistent – I have learned to deal with negative feedback and failure and not let it bring me down.’
‘Philosophy has helped me become both a critical and a strategic thinker. It has helped me become a critical thinker because it shaped my ability to identify important questions and raise issues in organizational environments, issues that people with a more technical training are not always aware of, e.g. ‘Why do things have to be done this way?’ It has helped me become a strategic thinker because it has pushed me to think hard about how things could be done otherwise.’
Transferable Skills
Higher level skills can be acquired more easily
Personal skills tend to be harder to change
(Transferable) Skills that English Ph.D.s may have The ability to present research to peers speak in public manage time (and other scarce resources) reach and defend independent conclusions communicate through writing focus all energies on one project cope with negative feedback identify problems that have not been identified before make novel contributions to research and discussion effectively monitor others’ learning processes
? Ability to work in a team
Developing a personal brand
Get exposure
‘Stalk’ mentors
Build networks
Developing a brand
Case study: What role can humanities Ph.D.s play in technology firms?
http://youtu.be/RkLFtiY8MRs?t=16m45s
CV vs. Resume
CV
Audience: Fellow academics or researchers in your field of study
When used: For academic positions and research positions in government and industry
Length: highly flexible (3-10 pages)
Goal: Present a full history of your academic credentials; teaching: research; awards and services
Focus: Representing your academic achievements and your scholarly potential
Contents: Full list of professional and educational history
Essential: List of publications, presentations, teaching experience, education, training, honors, grants
Specificity: CV’s need less alteration to fit each specific job opening
References: Usually listed at the end of the CV
Resume
Audience: General audience of employers seeking to hire for a variety of positions
When used: Positions in business and industry and the non-profit sector
Length: 1 - 2 pages
Goal: Present a snapshot of your skills and experience that communicates the ability to perform the job you seek
Focus: representing experiences: job-related, extracurricular and volunteer, accomplishments, and skills you’ve used
Contents: summary of experiences and skills most pertinent to position
Essential: Skills and experiences related to the job you seek
Specificity: Resumes should be adapted to fit each specific job you are applying
References: Usually not listed on a resume
Resume Bullets Focus on Experience – experience trumps
education Bury your Ph.D. credentials unless they are
clearly relevant Find novel and exciting ways to describe your
teaching activities Use Action verbs and don’t repeat them Focus on outcomes rather than processes Remember your ‘brand proposition’ ‘One page, two points, three sections’ (Guy
Kamasake)
Other ResourcesGeneral:
Versatile PhDThe Sellout (Mark Johnson)Basalla and Debelius: ‘So what are you going
to do with that?’LinkedIn groups
USC –specific resources:
• CET Events• Career Center Resources• Classes at Annenberg,
Marshall etc.
Questions and Activities
Take 5 minutes to create or re-create 2 resume bullets describing one of your recent achievements