Contributed by Pratik Poddar: Do not attach .doc resumes, .docx resumes.Do not use proprietary format. Formatting is totally ruined when you open a .doc file with open office.
Personally, I would also suggest the following:
1. Avoid writing the text resume below the cover letter that you mail profs. The first glance of your mail would look really daunting. In addition, the formatting of the text resume might change quite a bit too. So, create a link of your pdf resume and provide the link in the mail. [Opinions are quite varied in this aspect. This is what I had done and it worked well for me]
2. To find profs relevant to your interests, you could use Google scholar - on entering your topic/field of interest, you get dozens of papers relevant to the field. Alongside, you get the names of the authors too. You could google for the homepages of the authors. Note that many of them could be PhD students/ Post docs ! So please go through the homepages carefully before mailing.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
1. Dont SPAM. Check this out and you'll know what I am talking about.
http://www.phdcomics.com/proceedings/viewtopic.php?t=7671&sid=3fd1f88ef8f04e4d23954d1d19b63110
2. Mail one prof in one univ. Make sure you go through his / her webpage [and more importantly figure out if its a he or a she] before mailing.
3. You will need what is known as a cover letter. Do not write a generic one. Modify each cover letter according to the prof and mention the particular project you are interested in, rather than just sending out the same email to all the profs. [it is not necessary to know much about the field you wish to intern in. look at it as an opportunity to explore a field which you think you might be interested in.]
4. Make a nice resume [PDF / HTML]. Do not LIE here. In all probability you won't, but there have been such cases before and people fail to realize its significance.
5. Get your passport ready incase you dont already have one. [it would be the saddest thing if you cant go to an intern cos of passport pangas]
Guess this is all you need. Best of luck :)
http://www.phdcomics.com/
2. Mail one prof in one univ. Make sure you go through his / her webpage [and more importantly figure out if its a he or a she] before mailing.
3. You will need what is known as a cover letter. Do not write a generic one. Modify each cover letter according to the prof and mention the particular project you are interested in, rather than just sending out the same email to all the profs. [it is not necessary to know much about the field you wish to intern in. look at it as an opportunity to explore a field which you think you might be interested in.]
4. Make a nice resume [PDF / HTML]. Do not LIE here. In all probability you won't, but there have been such cases before and people fail to realize its significance.
5. Get your passport ready incase you dont already have one. [it would be the saddest thing if you cant go to an intern cos of passport pangas]
Guess this is all you need. Best of luck :)
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