In what order should PhD students be listed on a CV? Doctoral students come first, current students before those who have completed, and the newest at the top of each group. That is the order in which a hiring panel reads Research Supervision and the order it expects to find. Axe Builder, our resume builder for researchers, turns an ORCID iD into an academic resume with citations, h-index, journal quartiles and Crossref data already in place. Since 12 July, it keeps the section in exactly that order without any sorting by hand.
The ordering is applied to the data itself, so the editor, the on-screen preview and the exported PDF all show the same sequence, and what you check on screen is what the panel receives.
Why order is evidence
A panel counting PhD students supervised to completion as main supervisor wants to find them in one block rather than scattered among current students and master’s candidates. When Axe Talent prepares a candidate for a professorship, the supervision table is the first thing we rebuild in this order, and the builder now puts your PhD students in that order before the file reaches us.