non-academic hiring successes?

[Consultant]

Mar 31, 2015 8:59:20 GMT -5 Resume said:

Consultant, thank you for posting, this is helpful advice.

How did you represent your doctoral time and your dissertation on your resume? One of the problems I struggle with is figuring out how to represent my educational experience and not have a big gap on my resume for all the time I was in grad school. Usually I list it as a job itself with the name Doctoral Candidate, but I'm worried this doesn't look right to employers.

I organized my resume to refer to "Project Experience" rather than "Work Experience" and described my dissertation as a project for which I was the PI. And I moved "Education" to the end. The dates still showed the overlap so any close reader could see it was my dissertation, but it was effective. Same for my master's thesis. 

I recommend getting a cv from someone at the company where you are applying and trying to mimic the style, organization, buzz words.