Okay... any resume tips are appreciated at this point, especially from people with PhDs who have left academia.
@amsomniac yes and also no (I keep a version in google docs because I can send it from my phone in meetings???)
@Maenad I keep mine in overleaf for that reason but also, legit. My partner is re-doing their résumé, so I've been exposed to a lot of tips recently, all of which I summarily forgot, but if I hear any more I'll pass em on
@amsomniac thank you :)
I'm just so used to talking papers and datasets, it's weird to be making a resume.
@Maenad "this jupyter notebook is my career history"
@amsomniac "I have no sense of what computational time is worth which is why I'm embarrassed to share my code"
@Maenad dereferenced pointers available on request
@Maenad @amsomniac oh God, that's me. And I am ostensibly in statistical computing...
@gzt @amsomniac hahahaha I literally rerun my model which takes 2 hours on 24 cores instead of looking through past output >.>
@Maenad Targeted resumes are what’s in now - you need to write a new resume for every single position you apply for, making it specific for that position
@Admin I'm okay with that, but right now I just have a bulky CV with a lot of publications and teaching experience that I need to distill down to skills and interests at least once or twice.
http://www.southseattle.edu/documents/worksource/CreatingYourTargetedResume.pdf
Yeah— I believe they should be 1-2 pages max
@Maenad also, most companies scan your resume through software, meaning that a computer sees your resume before deciding if it should be read by a human. So you’ll want to make sure you use keywords from the job posting and add them to your resume
@Maenad I didn't stay in academia at all, so I might not be relevent but happy to chat - esp since I just did a search
@ansate I will probably hit you up later tonight, if you don't mind.
@Maenad melissa at lettervalue dot com is the best email
@ansate thank you!
@Maenad is your résumé LaTeX'd? that would be my only tip