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HEADING
• Include your name,
address, phone number
and professional email
address.
• Optional - list your
permanent address in
addition to the current.
• If relevant, you can
include a web address to
your online portfolio.
• On additional pages,
include your name and
page number in the
header or footer.
EDUCATION
• List education in reverse chronological order.
• GPA does not need to be listed for a
PhD level degree, but you should include
information about your dissertation.
• If you include GPA, remember to include the
GPA scale (e.g. 3.00/4.00).
• You can bold either the institutions you
attended or the degrees received.
• Do not include information from high
school.
,
SKILLS
• Include skills relevant to your
field.
• Consider - computer, language,
laboratory or technical.
• In a language skills section,
you should indicate your level
of proficiency from beginner,
intermediate, to fluent.
• Skills should be ranked in order
of relevance to the job.
Penelope H. Dean, PhD
1234 Highway 99
Clemson, SC 29634
phdstudent@clemson.edu
(864) 555-5555
EDUCATION
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
Doctor of Philosophy
May 20xx
Dissertation: Transportation Logistics
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
Master of Industrial Engineering
May 20xx
Research Focus: Teenage Drivers
LANGUAGE SKILLS
English:
native speaker
German
: native speaker
French
: fluent
PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS*
• Address which publicationsor presentations are pending and which ones have been published or presented.
• Format this section based on the format used within your field (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago.
• Bold your name within formatting to indicate your level of involvement when there is more than one author.
Duvall, John N.
“The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television
as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo’s White Noise.”
Arizona Quarterly
, vol. 50, no.3, 20xx, pp. 127-53. Print.
MLA Example Publication
Palmer, William J.
“Poetry and Place: Mapping the Poetic Voice in
the Desert Southwest” NEMLA Conference, March 20xx,
Pittsburgh, PA. Keynote Address.
MLA Example Presentation
*Consider splitting into two sections if you have multiple entries.