Resume for phd postion

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• Originally we had a web developer resume

• Now we would modify it into an academic style

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1. Objective:

• Start with a clear and concise objective that aligns with the role you’re applying for. For example,

“A highly motivated and experienced individual seeking a position as a Researcher in AI & Data Science, where I can apply my knowledge of machine learning and data science to create impactful solutions and contribute to the field of digital services.”

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2. Education:

• order: from now to past
• put Expected Graduation on 2024, June for current master

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3. Skills:

• Emphasize your skills in machine learning and your excellent programming abilities.
• If you have experience implementing AI algorithms into functional prototypes with real-time requirements, be sure to include this.

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4. Experience:

• still include projects under experience section.
• Describe the project, your role, the tools you used, and the outcome.
• This will give the hiring team a better understanding of your hands-on experience.

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5. Languages: Mention your proficiency in English, and a little german

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6. Personal Qualities:

Don’t forget to highlight qualities like creativity and perseverance, as they are looking for these traits.

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7. Learning Initiatives:

• For the part that we are not familiar but might be required in future research
• shows your initiative to learn and grow in this field by providing the courses

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Cover Letter: https://github.com/xp1632/DFKI_working_log/issues/36, #43

• In your cover letter,
• express your interest in xxxx area.
• Discuss how this position aligns with your career goals
• and how you plan to leverage your unique skills in the role.

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I am starting to modify the resume this morning

• [x] - Guide to Writing a PhD CV

https://www.findaphd.com/guides/phd-cv

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• Key points for an academic CV:
  • professional
  • relevant
  • clear and concise
  • most recent first
  • focus on academic experience and accomplishments
  • exclude irrelevant information
  • Size: normally two pages

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1. Personal profile, research interest

• Show the skills not tell

• Give evidence of skills, interest and enthusiasm instead of just stating it outright

• Research Interest:

• Include a short summary of your research interests as an introduction to your CV. - Make sure this is relevant to the PhD you are applying for to show your motivation towards that field.

2. Publications

• Works in progress can be included if necessary – just ensure this is clearly labelled.

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3. Research experience (Most Important Part!!)

• Current Research
• Research projects
• Research experience
• Show relative expert and technical skills in the experience
• Include supervisor name for each research project
• Include a brief summary of each (highlighting relevant, impressive aspects)

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• This is an example and I prefer bullet points

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(-) 4. Teaching experience

• here teaching means teaching other students
• Why didn't I take the tutor job for HCI course!!!!!!

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(-) 5. Awards

• Awards for research projects, posters, presentations

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What if we don't have publications

• As a PhD applicant, it's quite normal that you don't have lots of publications

• Also you are not expected to have lots of this

• Solutions are

  • show research project at Master level
  • show enthusiasm for research with other evidence
  • show the transferable skills

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General CV sections

• Title of your Name and contact on top

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• Education Near top, put recent ones first, include current degree
  • Include individual courses with their grade
  • short description

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• Other relevant skills

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• Referees; include two academic referees at the bottom of CV

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• Photos
• No photos in CV is acceptable in EU.
• Photos in CV is forbidden in USA,UK

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Other Tips:

• The most important and impressive information should be obvious at first glance
• Don’t allow sections to be split across two pages
• Not too many font sizes and styles

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• I am so mad at the modifying the CV content.
• This looks like a never-ending work
• I'll list the part I want to modify and modify it at most two times

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Which part of CV to modify?

1. • [x] Contact: Put Contact Information under the Name to make room for Skill
2. • [x] Skill: Divide programming skills and other skills
3. • [x] Profile Slightly modification, not too long
4. Project Experience
   • [x] Add one section of Integrating ImageJ/Fiji image processing into Chaldene Visual Programming. three lines
   • [x] Modify the Visual Programming hiwi work into two lines
   • [x] Modify the Psychology project into one line
   • [x] Modify the HBK project into one line
     5. • [x] Education: add estimated date and grade for both bachelor and master

     6. • [x] Reference: Keep Reference as it is

        • The above sections should be in the first page of CV
        • The next page of CV is the screen shot of project

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The current version of CV:

Resume_Ziwei.pdf Edit in https://www.canva.com/design/DAFbU66Ms3Y/QxZkdNWbXz75XosIijhJMw/edit?utm_content=DAFbU66Ms3Y&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton