As I recently discussed in an article titled “Quantum Talent Neural Network,” not everything on your CV carries the same weight. Your PhD in physics, for example, outweighs the online physics course I audited. Your thesis on quantum error correction outweighs the QEC-themed summer school I attended.
Your Thesis Matters
Speaking of your thesis, you have a PhD and lots of other great stuff on your CV. But, realistically, how much time did you spend developing each skill? One of the values of your thesis is that it tells the reader something you spent considerable time on. Understatement? For example, your thesis is related to quantum cryptography while my CV lists a couple of cryptography-related projects. Maybe I spent a lot of time on these projects, but, no; they lasted weeks or months and I collaborated with a cryptography expert. So, after interviewing us both, which one of us is the company realistically going to hire?
That’s a trick question, by the way. I don’t have a PhD so I wouldn’t even be invited to interview. Advantage: you.
Furthermore, there’s a difference between having a relevant thesis and having published some relevant papers. If your thesis is about photonic integrated circuits and you’ve co-authored several papers on quantum Support Vector Machines, your CV probably looks more relevant for hardware-related…
