I'm trying to do this now. My Phd is in CS, however. Some friends looked at my CV and gave me comments .. wow ... quite the eye opener. Some suggestions that he

I'm trying to do this now. My Phd is in CS, however. Some friends looked at my CV and gave me comments .. wow ... quite the eye opener. Some suggestions that helped me: 1) Remove the royal "we". You need to be very specific about what you did on projects. 2) Have a skills section. I found this profoundly disturbing as I feel I can work with a very large variety of programming languages/frameworks. 3) Remove papers or just have notable papers. These go at the end of your resume. 4) Keep your resume short! 1-2 pages 5) Don't sell yourself short. Many good academics jokingly talk smack about the PhD. At the end of the day, not every Tom, Dick or Harry could have earned one of these (especially from a notable University). Build up on the self-esteem if you are a burned out academic. I got a few interviews from a few big companies but I decided to try my luck with startups. Lets see how it turns out for me. Best of luck to you!