How I Wrote My End-of-PhD CV | Oxford Postgrad

Two years ago I sent off this CV after my PhD in Martian Geology and got a job that, two years later, I still absolutely love. Let me take you through it piece by piece.

Caveat: There are a million reasons why a person may or may not get a job, and the CV is only part of that… But it’s not a bad place to start.

Caveat: This is aimed at non-academic jobs, since their CVs tend to go on and on and on for page after page.

Caveat: There are a million ways to write a CV! Take from this what you find helpful, leave what you don’t, and make your CV work for you.

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The Applying for my PhD CV video:
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Thanks to the ever-effervescent Silent Island, for letting me use their wonderful song Dolphin Rush as the end credits.

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My name is Lucy Kissick, I have a PhD in planetary science from the University of Oxford, I'm a scientist in the nuclear industry, and have you ever heard the one about the two muffins in the oven? One muffin turns to the other and says, It's getting hot in here isn't it? And the other muffin says, Oh my God, a talking muffin!!!