Lab Rotation experience on CV / Resume

[aberrant]

Hello all,

I'm just wondering if it is a common practice to put ones research experience (through lab rotation, which is ~8 - 10 weeks) into the CV / resume. If some do, how much detail / info would you (or they) put into a CV/resume? Thanks.

[virion]

Many people probably don't. If it's a PhD program, and all goes as planned, it will be some years before you probably really need your CV again. By then, it should be strong enough that lab rotation details seem like buffering. If one were to leave after 2 years with an MS, it might be more reasonable to put lab rotations on there when job searching, etc.

An exception might be mentioning a technique (perhaps not some trivial kit, but maybe NMR, EM, etc. Expensive hardware that they don't want you breaking? )that you got a lot of experience with during a rotation, but not in your thesis work, that is relevant to the position you're applying for.

[aberrant]

Thank you for your response. I'm curious because I'm rotating in a lab and my work is very different from my field (or the discipline from my program). which is why I think it is worth it to mention it in my CV (that i have experience on something outside of my expertise), but it might be weird...

[fuzzylogician]

I am counting on my advisors to mention any useful but non-obvious skill I learned in graduate school in their letters of recommendation if/when it becomes apparent that it's relevant for the jobs I'm applying for. Adding a line to my CV stating that I learned obscure method X seems much less effective and is, at this point, probably completely unnecessary. If it turns out that I'm applying for jobs where it could be helpful, or if they'll want to give an example of how I can go off the beaten track and teach myself methods from other fields, then they can discuss these skills. (Mind you, I hope to use all the obscure skills I've had to teach myself in papers I write, to show direct evidence of what I've learned, but that may not always work out.)