Industry-Ready Resumes: Landing Your First Role or Next Move

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Industry-Ready Resumes: Landing Your First Role or Your Next Move

Your resume has seconds to make an impression. Is it doing its job?

This practical session is designed for graduate students and early-career professionals who want to transition into industry or prepare for their next career move. Learn how recruiters actually read resumes and how to position academic and industry experience for impact, growth, and mobility.

You’ll learn how to:

  • Write an industry-focused resume (not a CV)

  • Turn research, projects, and technical work into impact-driven bullet points

  • Move beyond job duties and signal readiness for the next level

  • Avoid common resume mistakes


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  • Starts 12 February 2026 07:00 AM UTC
  • Ends 18 March 2026 05:45 PM UTC
  • No Admission Charge

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Dr. Don Back of PhD Career Academy

Biography:

Dr. Don Back is the founder of PhD Career Academy, where he helps highly trained graduates navigate one of the most consequential, and least supported, transitions of their careers: moving from deep technical expertise into professional leadership and impact. With a PhD in biochemistry and an MBA in strategy and finance, Don has spent his career operating at the intersection of research, engineering, and business - as a bench scientist, faculty member, venture fund partner, and executive leader. That range gives him something rare: fluency in both the technical and business worlds, and a deep understanding of what gets lost in translation between them.

Through workshops, coaching, and partnerships with universities, Don equips graduates with the clarity, strategy, and confidence to turn their years of rigorous training into careers that match their capability.

He believes that technically trained graduates (engineers, scientists, researchers) are among the most capable people in any organization. Too many of them are left to figure out career advancement on their own. He is building PhD Career Academy to change that.

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Agenda

Session flow:

  • 5–7 min: Strategic framing - clarity → positioning → resume as a tool

  • 35–38 min: Practical walkthroughs, examples, and best practices

  • 10 min: Live Q & A