The UCLA Graduate Career Services PhD Resume Book is a tool designed for PhD students, PhD candidates, recent PhDs, and postdocs to help reframe academic work, communicate skills, share impact, and demonstrate the value of a PhD across a wide variety of careers outside academia.

Download the PhD Resume Book to view all of the resumes:

• next to the job descriptions they are tailored for,
• with precise formatting, and
• with annotations describing why certain design choices were made and why certain content was included.

The downloadable version also includes CV vs. Resume, Build Your Bullet Points, Resume Formatting Tips Checklist, Action Verbs, How and When to Write a Professional Summary, and Comprehensive Resume all in one place!

The PhD Resume Book contains example resumes for diverse roles and fields, including:

• Biotech
• Consulting (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences)
• Consulting (STEM)
• Data Science (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences)
• Data Science (STEM)
• Higher Education Administration
• Librarian
• Medical Science Liaison
• Non-Profit
• Publishing
• Science Policy
• Scientist
• Software Engineer
• Training
• UX Research (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences)
• UX Research (STEM)
• Federal Jobs
• Think Tank/Research