Graduate Teaching Assistant resume examples for 2025

Graduate Teaching Assistant resume format and sections

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   1. Add contact information to your graduate teaching assistant resume

   Your name should be the biggest text on the page and be at or near the top of the document. Your address doesn't need to include your street name or house number - listing your city and state works just fine. Your email address should be professional, but not your current work email address. It's not a good look to use your work email for personal projects (job-searching). Your social media can be included if you have a fully-fledged LinkedIn page or another social media page that showcases your relevant skill set.

   Graduate Teaching Assistant Resume Contact Information Example #1

   Hank Rutherford Hill

   St. Arlen, Texas | 333-111-2222 | hank.hill@gmail.com

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   2. Add relevant education to your graduate teaching assistant resume

   Your resume's education section should include:

   • The name of your school
   • The date you graduated (Month, Year or Year are both appropriate)
   • The name of your degree

   If you graduated more than 15 years ago, you should consider dropping your graduation date to avoid age discrimination.

   Optional subsections for your education section include:

   • Academic awards (Dean's List, Latin honors, etc. )
   • GPA (if you're a recent graduate and your GPA was 3.5+)
   • Extra certifications
   • Academic projects (thesis, dissertation, etc. )

   Other tips to consider when writing your education section include:

   • If you're a recent graduate, you might opt to place your education section above your experience section
   • The more work experience you get, the shorter your education section should be
   • List your education in reverse chronological order, with your most recent and high-ranking degrees first
   • If you haven't graduated yet, you can include "Expected graduation date" to the entry for that school

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   Graduate Teaching Assistant Resume Relevant Education Example #1

   Doctoral Degree In English 2007 - 2010

   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC

   Graduate Teaching Assistant Resume Relevant Education Example #2

   Master's Degree In Electrical Engineering 2014 - 2015

   Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY

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   3. Next, create a graduate teaching assistant skills section on your resume

   Your resume's skills section should include the most important keywords from the job description, as long as you actually have those skills. If you haven't started your job search yet, you can look over resumes to get an idea of what skills are the most important.

   Here are some tips to keep in mind when writing your resume's skills section:

   • Include 6-12 skills, in bullet point form
   • List mostly hard skills; soft skills are hard to test
   • Emphasize the skills that are most important for the job

   Hard skills are generally more important to hiring managers because they relate to on-the-job knowledge and specific experience with a certain technology or process.

   Soft skills are also valuable, as they're highly transferable and make you a great person to work alongside, but they're impossible to prove on a resume.

   Example of skills to include on an graduate teaching assistant resume

   • Undergraduate Courses Skills.
      

     Undergraduate courses usually refer to the first studies undertaken at university.

   • R Skills.
      

     R is a free software environment and a language used by programmers for statistical computing. The R programming language is famously used for data analysis by data scientists.

   • TA Skills.
      

     TA stands for Teaching Assistant. A TA helps a teacher with certain education and instructive responsibilities. Generally, a TA is chosen from different levels of academic students such as recent graduations, postgraduates, and undergraduates. A teacher's assistant generally helps the teacher with course management, question preparation, marking, and other similar activities.

   • Physiology Skills.
      

     Physiology is a branch of biology focused on studying living things, other parts, and the functions of these parts. It studies the functions of living things, especially the human body, and the effects of different processes and actions on the well-being of the body.

   • C++ Skills.
      

     C++ is a general-purpose programming language that is used to create high-performing applications. It was invented as an extension to the C language. C++ lets the programmer have a high level of domination over memory and system resources. C++ is an object-oriented language that helps you implement real-time issues based on different data functions

   Top Skills for a Graduate Teaching Assistant

   Lab Experiments, 22.0%
   Laboratory Sections, 8.2%
   Undergraduate Courses, 7.6%
   Organic Chemistry, 5.7%
   Other Skills, 56.5%
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   4. List your graduate teaching assistant experience

   The most important part of any resume for a graduate teaching assistant is the experience section. Recruiters and hiring managers expect to see your experience listed in reverse chronological order, meaning that you should begin with your most recent experience and then work backwards.

   Don't just list your job duties below each job entry. Instead, make sure most of your bullet points discuss impressive achievements from your past positions. Whenever you can, use numbers to contextualize your accomplishments for the hiring manager reading your resume.

   It's okay if you can't include exact percentages or dollar figures. There's a big difference even between saying "Managed a team of graduate teaching assistants" and "Managed a team of 6 graduate teaching assistants over a 9-month project. "

   Most importantly, make sure that the experience you include is relevant to the job you're applying for. Use the job description to ensure that each bullet point on your resume is appropriate and helpful.

   What experience really stands out on Graduate Teaching Assistant resumes?

   April Dawkins Ph.D.

   Assistant Professor, The University of North Carolina Greensboro

   Across the United States, most school librarians are required to have a graduate degree in either education or library and information science with licensure as a school librarian (school library media coordinator). The most likely experience to benefit them in their job search is a previous experience as a classroom teacher. Teaching is one of the significant roles that school librarians play in schools, through direct and indirect instruction with students, and professional development for classroom teachers.

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   Work History Example # 1

   Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant

   University of Massachusetts Lowell

   • Conducted electrical and electro-optical testing using self-developed programs in LabVIEW and fulfilled device packaging.
   • Interpreted gathered data in SPSS through various analysis and published a paper.
   • Supervised teaching undergraduate chemistry labs and grading one undergraduate chemistry course;.
   • Presented the results in a group meeting using Microsoft PowerPoint.
   • Assisted Dr. Lou Roberts in running Biochemistry 421: Biochemistry Lab for non-majors.

   Work History Example # 2

   Process Engineer Internship

   Kimberly-Clark

   • Conducted a workshop to train co-workers of material complexity in order to drive efficiency in product assembly.
   • Used my knowledge of SolidWorks to design the test fixtures.
   • Developed interactive tracker tool to display material complexity on a month-to-month basis.
   • Negotiated bulk chemical supply and delivery contracts to ensure JIT delivery of raw materials.
   • Updated electrical prints in Autocad after project installs.

   Work History Example # 3

   Assistant Lecturer

   MD Anderson Cancer Center

   • Provided quality teaching using different pedagogic methods such as in-class activities, online discussion boards and team-based assignments.
   • Created a personal learning environment by not adhering to the traditional classroom dichotomy.
   • Lectured in calculus and differential equations and performed original research in computational mathematics.
   • Lectured masters students studying philosophy on Foucault theory and the practical uses of philosophical theory in anthropological studies through inter-disciplinarian approaches.
   • Instructed undergraduate students in Anatomy I and Microbiology.

   Work History Example # 4

   Graduate Teaching Assistant

   Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

   • Supervised general and organic chemistry undergraduate laboratories Administered quizzes and graded examinations
   • Organized course syllabi and instructed Organic Chemistry lab procedures for 50 undergraduate students.
   • Prepared solutions for all chemistry laboratories, using techniques such as titrations and dilutions.
   • Instructed general chemistry laboratory classes for freshman level.
   • Performed wet chemistry to synthesize metal-organic frameworks and pharmaceutical application.

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   5. Highlight graduate teaching assistant certifications on your resume

   Specific graduate teaching assistant certifications can be a powerful tool to show employers you've developed the appropriate skills.

   If you have any of these certifications, make sure to put them on your graduate teaching assistant resume:

   1. Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP)
   2. Clinical Research Assistant
   3. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL)
   4. Project Management Professional (PMP)
   5. Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
   6. Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
   7. Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA)
   8. Certified Professional Technical Communicator - Expert (CPTC)
   9. Physician Assistant - Certified (PA-C)
   10. Certificate to Teach English as a Foreign Language (CTEFL)

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   6. Finally, add an graduate teaching assistant resume summary or objective statement

   A resume summary statement consists of 1-3 sentences at the top of your graduate teaching assistant resume that quickly summarizes who you are and what you have to offer. The summary statement should include your job title, years of experience (if it's 3+), and an impressive accomplishment, if you have space for it.

   Remember to emphasize skills and experiences that feature in the job description.

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