Indian faculty recruitment and CAS promotion committees score teaching, research and institutional service separately, so a professor’s skills section should mirror that split. Discipline-specific research methods, outcome-based education, grant writing, supervision and NAAC or NBA documentation carry weight, along with tools such as SPSS, R, LaTeX, lab instruments or LMS platforms you genuinely use.
Outcome-based education and CO-PO mapping
The before could describe any teacher. The bullet proves outcome-based education skill through a defined number of courses, the CO-PO mapping task and a concrete accreditation document that committees recognise.
The hard skills employers screen for first.
Name them exactly as they appear in job descriptions.
Specific to this job — show them with an example, not an adjective.
Undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, Research design and methodology, Academic writing and publishing, PhD and dissertation supervision, Outcome-based education and CO-PO mapping, Curriculum design, Research grant writing, Accreditation documentation, UGC-NET, JRF or SET qualification, Scopus and Web of Science databases, Zotero or Mendeley, LaTeX, SPSS, R or Python, Moodle or another LMS, Plagiarism-check software, Mentoring research scholars, Explaining complex ideas to first-year students, Committee work and consensus building, Constructive peer review, Fair evaluation and academic integrity
Written by the DigitalCVMaker team for professors applying in India. Every example is original — none is copied from a real person’s profile — and each is built around what employers and clients in this field look for: the role, a specialism, and proof you can back up. We revise the page when that changes; the date at the top shows the last update.
Only list skills you can back up with an example in your experience section or at interview.
Real websites published by members — see how they word their headline, summary and skills.
Yes, in science, engineering and pharmacy disciplines. Name instruments you operate independently, such as HPLC, XRD or FTIR, and say whether you also train students or maintain them. Committees and funding agencies value faculty who can run central facilities, but list only equipment you can use without supervision.
Draw on teaching assistantships, guest lectures, tutorials during PhD work and any FDP or pedagogy course. Name the courses and levels, and mention methods such as flipped classrooms or case teaching you have tried. A short demo lecture video link in your application often supports this section well.
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