Rethink Your Resume:
Market Your PhD Experience To Land Industry Jobs
Stop getting ghosted in your job applications.
Use these resume tools, templates, and translations
to get industry job interviews within a matter of months.
Get Interviews, Faster
I've seen PhDs spend 6+ months sending out 100+ industry resumes without getting a single interview.
Don't believe the myth that "you've just got to get rejected a lot and then your dream job will magically hire you out of the blue."
Instead: leverage my system to work smarter, not harder, to get industry interviews within a matter of months and land jobs that will 2-3x your salary.
About me
I'm Tory Wobber, PhD. I'm a career coach who enjoys helping PhDs move into jobs outside of academia. I've helped more than 80 PhDs land industry jobs.
I know what rejection feels like
When I was working on my PhD, I believed that my CV was everything. That if I worked hard enough and produced a stellar CV, that it would open up all the opportunities that I could dream of in my academic career.
So I created a strong CV: at the end of graduate school, I had 17 peer-reviewed publications and had raised more than $200k in grant funding.
Sure enough, my strong CV landed me an on-site faculty interview while I was still ABD. This was it, right?!
But that faculty job that I interviewed for while ABD? It ended up going to the post-doc of the hiring committee chair.
And the last faculty interview I did, after two seasons on the job market? That was in my graduate department. They interviewed me, ran me through the whole process as though they were considering me — and gave the job to someone else.
So after 2 faculty hiring seasons, 6 on-site interviews, and 0 offers later, I was gutted.
What had I done wrong? Was I not good enough for any jobs?
That rejection crippled me. It left me disappointed and dejected.
I wanted to believe that my skills, experience, energy and passion could add value somewhere.
I wanted all the work I'd put in during my PhD to feel like it was worth it.
What was I doing wrong?
As I lay awake at night during this year of my life that I spent on the faculty job market, I wondered what I had done wrong.
If I couldn't find a job, it would mean I didn't measure up to everyone's expectations of me. I wouldn't be able to show my face in my department. I would have to give up my expectations that I could accomplish anything I put my mind to if I tried hard enough.
But nothing was clicking. I didn't know what else I was supposed to do.
I went out and started interviewing in industry. I got 2 interviews, but again: 0 offers.
If they didn't want me in academia or in industry, where else was there for me to go?
Would I be the fully-unemployable Harvard PhD, the alum that no one in the department would talk about because I had faded into obscurity amidst total failure?
I didn't feel qualified for any job
One of my PhD co-advisors, when I first mentioned I was looking for something outside of academia, said:
"You're not qualified for anything else but this."
He was (and is) one of my fiercest advocates. He simply couldn't fathom that PhD training was useful anywhere outside of academia.
And at the time, I believed him. I didn't think my qualifications would get me hired anywhere. I felt unemployable: in academia, in industry, in the whole world.
But within 3 months of that low point, I had landed a 6-figure job as a data scientist at Facebook.
Now that I've placed more than 80 PhDs outside of academia, I have the data to prove my PhD co-advisor wrong.
What I was missing back then
What I didn't realize, interviewing for that very first faculty job where the hiring committee chair hired his post-doc, was this:
Getting the job wasn't about my CV, or even my performance in the interview. It was about knowing the customer.
A bit more on that in a moment. But once I recognized that I needed to get to know my customer for the hiring process, my whole approach to job applications changed.
With that new approach, I tailored an industry resume for data science jobs.
I learned what data science roles wanted. I identified how to convey my quantitative experiences to match just what they needed. I sent my resume out for review amongst folks who knew how hiring worked in data science and could give me tailored feedback.
And then: I got interviews for the first 2 data science jobs where I applied. I landed the 2nd of the two: a 6-figure data science role at what was then Facebook.
I didn't open myself up to undue rejection by sending out 50 applications. Instead, I tailored my message and my approach. And I landed an amazing job with a 50% success rate for offers extended / applications sent.
You might look at that one data point and consider it and outlier. But now, I've helped 80 PhDs use the same tools, techniques and templates to land their first industry jobs.
I know what works, and what doesn't when it comes to PhDs sending out industry resumes.
I've put what I've learned into a replicable system of tools, templates, and translations that any PhD-holder can use.
You might be skeptical...you're a PhD, after all
This approach might sound strange to you. "Customer? Who's the customer? I'm nor selling anything with my resume!"
But here's the thing: your job application does have a customer (a few customers, in fact). And you are selling something: your ability to fit the needs of the hiring manager.
The sooner you recognize that your job application has a customer, the sooner you can understand who that customer is and how to market to them.
Now is there a bit of research and discovery involved in identifying your target customer and learning how to market your skills to them? Absolutely.
My system will take you through that research and discovery process.
I'll help you put together your resume and do the "behind the scenes" work to tailor the story you tell so that it lands with your target jobs.
You don't need to go get an internship, another training program, or god forbid another PhD in order to be qualified for an industry job.
You don't need to hire a dedicated resume writer.
You just need the tools, templates, and translations to rethink your resume and start landing industry job interviews within a matter of months.
PhDs can find industry roles. They're doing it every week — even if that makes the folks who stay in academia a little squeamish to admit.
You can, too.
Introducing
A comprehensive, PhD-vetted system that turns your existing experience, skills, and passions into a marketable resume that opens the door to 6-figure jobs in industry with a few hours of work invested.
Rethink Your Resume will help you:
Open the door to 6-figure jobs
Earn 2-3x what you earn in academia with the skills you already have from your doctoral training.
Get industry job interviews within 3 months
Stop spinning your wheels with applications that go nowhere in response to your hard work.
Market your PhD experience effectively
Understand how to convey your existing PhD skills as skills and deliverables, translating your CV into a resume that uses industry-relevant terms and formats.
Avoid "PhD newbie" resume mistakes
Learn how a resume differs from a CV and who your customer is for a cold resume upload to a job site (spoiler alert: it may be an algorithm!)
Stop getting ghosted
Spend less time doom-scrolling and tinkering with your profile on LinkedIn.
Land an industry job that will increase your income 200-300%
I'm not asking for a cut of that 2-3x increase in your salary. Get access to all of these tools for one payment of $49.
GET IT NOWWhat Other PhDs are Saying:
"Your resume template was super helpful! I have received more replies to my job applications since I started using it."
— Marina, PhD job-seeker
Here's what you'll get in Rethink Your Resume
- 11 videos where I walk you through how to market your PhD experience to make it count in industry
- A resume prep checklist to ensure your resume is ready before you send it out
- 2 resume templates: copy my format so you don't have to start from a blank page
- A structured guide on how to uncover "resume speak" relevant to your target role
- A "translation guide" to go between academic language and corp-speak
- An exercise to generate an executive summary that communicates your skills in seconds
- 42 examples of resume bullet points that land with industry readers
- A timeline with actionable next steps that will keep you moving forward strategically
As context, hiring a professional resume writer to do this for you would cost $200-$700.
You'll get all this for just $56.
All The Tools You Need To Rethink Your Resume
Market your PhD experience in your industry resume to get a job this year.
"I've often found PhDs hesitant to 'boastfully' reframe their experience in these terms, but what you've written is precisely what they've done and need to describe!"
— Geoffrey, PhD who is now a Tech hiring manager
Rethink Your Resume is for:
- PhDs sending out industry resumes and getting rejected
- PhDs applying for jobs primarily in the United States
- You can be ABD, post-doc or faculty: if you're actively applying outside of academia, this content is for you
- Any PhD field: the tools I share apply across disciplines
Rethink Your Resume is not for:
- PhDs who aren't actively job-searching yet. Check out the free panels I host over on YouTube to get an idea of what's out there. Don't worry about your resume yet.
- PhDs already getting job interviews but not offers — that's a different problem and stage than the one we'll tackle here. Congrats on getting to the interview stage!
- Masters-holders or undergrads looking for industry jobs: Rethink Your Resume will be less relevant for you because the content here is designed specifically for folks with doctoral-level training.
"Based on what I've learned, I'm going to make a new copy of my resume so that it has more of a qualitative spin. I've decided the story I want to tell is that I'm really good at research — that feels most like 'me' and fits with what I've heard in my UXR informational interviews."
— Annie, PhD job-seeker
My guarantee for you
I've put a lot of content into Rethink Your Resume because I want to empower PhDs to find jobs outside of academia.
But you're a PhD, trained in critical thinking, so I understand if you're skeptical whether Rethink Your Resume will work for you.
So I'm giving anyone who purchases Rethink Your Resume a 30-day no-questions-asked money-back guarantee.
If you don't find Rethink Your Resume helpful, send me an email and I'll refund you immediately. No questions asked, no hard feelings.
All The Tools You Need To Market Your PhD Experience
Craft an industry resume that gets you interviews within 3 months with less than 10 hours of effort invested.
Do future self a favor and invest in these tools, templates, and translations now.
- Don't spend months sputtering and getting rejected.
- Don't send out a resume that you don't believe in. You'll get a "dud" job if you position yourself as a "dud" hire.
- Don't move from one toxic workplace to another by sending out a resume that says "I tolerate toxicity."
- Don't buy into some narratives that you'll just have to get a job via luck alone. You don't control 100% of the process, but you don't control 0% either.
- Don't wait and marinate in doubt about yourself and your skills.
- Don't spend your energy writing angry tweets about the job market, how the whole system is rigged and the economy is doomed.
- Take your time and energy and invest it here, with a system that works. See results for your job search come as a result of your efforts.
See you on the other side,
Tory
