<p>Where on a resume would you put paid academic research with a professor?</p>
<p>Is it a job, an internship, an honor?</p>
<p>Probably job because it’s paid, but it’s definitely in a gray area :-/ sorry I can’t be more helpful</p>
<p>D2 was just told by her school to put it under work.</p>
<p>It’s a job. And use a chronological resume in the traditional structure (jobs, education) so that the person reading it doesn’t have to try to figure out what the person actually did. </p>
<p>We get hundreds of resumes a month; ease of reading matters.</p>
<p>I think it more depends on the type of job that you are applying for. </p>
<p>If applying for an academic job (or business, such as R&D) where a Research section should be highlighted, the put it there so it stands out.</p>
<p>If applying for a regular job where research will not be valued, I’d put it under work experience.</p>
<p>She’s still a student. Lost work study this year so she is applying for a non-work study job on campus and wanted to put that in there because the supervising professor is the chair of the department of the hoped-for job.</p>
<p>Again, it depends on the type of job that she is seeking.</p>
<p>My D was applying to on-campus labs which conducted research, so she added a section of her resume, entitled, Research (in reverse chrono order); the Research section followed Education, which for a current student usually goes first. In the Research section, she could then list relevant paid and volunteer research activities, and the PI could immediately scan for a good fit.</p>
<p>She also had a second resume for applying to non-Research positions, whereby she listed her paid-research and paid retail clerk activities under (if I recall), ‘Skills and Experience’.</p>
<p>Non-research position. Office work in the department.</p>
<p>I would suggest for students and new graduates to put Education on top then work experience. If there has been a lot of meaningful research, put it after Education.</p>
<p>Any thought on good software or web site that would be good for creating a resume? Should it just be a word document? </p>
<p>DS has a resume created in pagemaker that is a pdf for emailing but it is hard for him to update himself while at school since the software is something on the home computer.</p>
<p>If he has a Mac, he can always create it in word (especially if he is doing multiple edits or tailoring it toward a specific job posting) and save as a pdf, to preserve the formatting.</p>
<p>Office work? Definitely a job.</p>
<p>Can use MS Word to make a resume and then save as pdf. (A PC will require Adobe, I think, but sometimes that is available for free from college IT.)</p>