Let's talk career advice for students and early career researchers! Specifically: how do you represent your non-academic work on your CV and job applications? What guidance have you been given in planning your career? I'll share some advice, but please share your tips! #phdchatpic.twitter.com/qsPyxAHVBi
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Replying to @OtherSociology
I used to split my jobs and volunteer stuff into “Relevant Experience” (early on the CV) and “other work and volunteering experience” (near end of CV). Anything relevant to a specific app went in the first part, everything else listed briefly at the end to account for my time.
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Replying to @ResourcefulSqrl @OtherSociology
Also (I just checked some old CVs), I had a "Areas of technical or academic experience" section to put things I KNEW I could do that we learned in classes, even though I didn't have a publication or job doing it already.
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Replying to @ResourcefulSqrl
Oooh - probably not a good idea, though noted it was in your old CV. CVs should be a summary of experience. In a job application, however, it would be ok to say, "I've not had direct experience, I understand that this theory/method would be applicable in the role in [X WAYS]."
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Reason being that recruitment panels need to be clear about specific areas that they are willing to "train up" and other aspects of the job that are essential and they need a candidate to start the ground running with prior direct experience.
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