For example, if I got a Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, does that go first, or the university’s name? Thanks. (It would vary only slightly; under “Professional Appointments” I would put “Fellow, X Institution,” and under “Grants and Fellowships” I would put “Fellowship, X Institution.” I’m in the Humanities, by the way. You should follow the convention in your field, but i my field of East Asian Languages, it was usually considered good to translate titles into English, on CVs. Since I always present a paper on the panels that I organize, I was wasn’t sure… Thank you, Karen, for your website, it is invaluable! In the classroom, they may facilitate discussions, assign classwork, or monitor assessments. Committed to the development and launch of pioneering research with comprehensive knowledge of my subject … cheers, More common in Business, sciences. Great blog. It feels that to list the terms and years would be cumbersome. In a way it seems repetitive because then I would be listing the work associated with a specific project twice–once in publications and once in research experience. There are some terribly ignorant and irresponsible senior scholars out there). I actually kept a physical file and put my new c.v. in that file every few months. Teaching in this context, ie, as a list of courses taught, is not competitive, and thus is de-prioritized. Do you, or how would you include service to the profession, like being asked to review tenure files or manuscripts for publication, that are also confidential? So, Dr. Karen, what’s your opinion on job talks on the cv? It does make people feel apprehensive to call someone whose name we can’t pronounce. Deviations tell the opposite story. (6) I organized a few lectures but as part of a campus student group. Remove all undergraduate content, other than listing your BA degree under Education. Book, edited volume, other? 3) I’m in humanities/lit/area studies, so it’s conventional to have a research languages section. As far as removing anything from my undergraduate years; I listed an internship I did as an undergraduate and in a letter to the people who had to approve their decision, the committee listed that experience as one of the reasons they selected me. However, I was a pro athlete and my PhD research is in that sport. You can very briefly describe the substance of the research that you did as an undergrad. But I feel to be asked to talk to to students about Kant is something worthy to be put on my CV. . Awards and Honors. Should I list my fieldwork, and the language skills needed to complete it, in a separate entry? (The book went on to win an award, but I am still up for other postdocs or TT jobs.). [Optional. ] But in academia, one is more likely to feel guilty than justified for those months. Is this OK ? Visiting Scholar, Department I hope that this helps, but again, others might have different input. What do you think of a section (under funding received) entitled grant applications pending, to show that you’ve been submitting funding aps? I went to add that one conference and then poof, my whole afternoon disappeared. To complicate the issue, the person is also acts as chair or co-chair of the same conference, although that work is separate from the committee work. Just trying to get a friendly sense as to whether there is pretty much informal consensus on such translations. When I graduated with my MFA, I sought out a trusted acting theatre professor (which whom I had done shows) and asked him if he’d be willing to share his CV so I could get an idea of format and structure. Senior scholars seem to list their professional appointments before their education, and makes sense (i.e., if you have an endowed chair, that trumps where you went to graduate school). Quick question regarding CVs: my professional society (American Musicological Society) has a blog. Exactly why I wouldn’t want to work in her dept. And a third one on awards: if I leave out everything from college, there won’t be enough left to want me to put it as high up as you suggest. There you could also explain your own Masters and PhD research, even if those degrees aren’t in hand just yet. And I was a finalist during a search at a local university despite a CV that didn’t conform to these guidelines, but I had friends in the department and on the search committee who were familiar with my work. will count for something, but without publications, it’s hard to really define yourself as a scholar/candidate. If there’s only two lines of a new section, then a page break, that seems weird, but it also looks weird to have all that blank space on the bottom of a page. Thanks, Karen, for a great post. After a lot of work with clients in the sciences, I’ve come around to recommending a single list, with the author’s name bolded. My question is, where do I list this on the CV? Dear Karen, The further along I get, the shorter I try to make this section b/c I don’t want it to overwhelm the publications (which it already does). I will appreciate your advice on targeting my CV for this purpose. Do these go under Professional Positions (even though they aren’t adjunct or TT)? I’m a postdoc and going on the job market (again!). At what point do these kinds of things rotate off the CV as I move on to and through my PhD? This year I reapplied for the same fellowship and just found out I’m an awardee! Learn how your comment data is processed. I spent 15 years as an R1 tenured professor, department head, and university advisor, and almost ten years as an academic career coach. That is not padding, because the review process of top fellowships is among the most rigorous in the land, so the award itself, as opposed to your condition of having accepted it, is the honor and the evidence. 2013-Present Associate Professor (Tenured, 2014) I straddle both the academic and creative performance aspects of my discipline. Cheers, Ingrid. (ed.) And, if CV, where I will be deficient in many areas (i.e.-publications, conferences presentations, etc.) Having only proofread for publications and in the printing industry, I was able to streamline her CV and at least make it consistent. (p.s. McSweeney’s is sort of like that; it really doesn’t relate to your actual academic career, and thus doesn’t really belong on the CV, unless you’re in creative writing. does this include manuscripts that have not yet been accepted? Thank you for any and all advice! Thanks for your advice. I was wondering about how to list an article accepted with revisions, where it seems clear that it will eventually be published with the journal, but listing it as “forthcoming” seems dishonest. Thank you for your site, I just discovered it yesterday, and just in time. What would be the proper way to indicate that you’re the editor of something in that “other publications” heading? is pretty much standard in my field. Each month I add another line to my c.v.? PhD submitted, and under examination. I plan to defend in the spring semester of 2014. Some have advised that I take off the date of BA and MA completion and leave just my Ph.D. completion date. Year at left. They will consider anything that stands out of their box of rigid thinking as suspicious and disqualifying. it must go under “related employment,” near the end of the cv. Your institutional and home addresses, tel, email, parallel right and left justified. If you’d prefer to play it safe (and I would prob lean toward that in a brutal and unforgiving market), leave off. It’s only now, having submitted my thesis and starting the job-search in earnest, that I realise how much stuff I SHOULD have been doing already! You must appear to be a scholar first, writer of other thigns a distant second, third, or fourth. Many other TAs in this class did not have such responsibilities. are related to the previous career, and I have no academic accolades to speak of (I was interning and/or pregnant for most of my year and a half of graduate school). I’ve been invited to take part in several “convenings” about the topic I research. So while I believe I should include the comp classes for my MA and adjunct positions, in order to avoid too much repetition, should I just leave them out of my Ph.D. and current teaching experience? After an exhaustive application process I had only one interview and the interviewers stumbled over my name more than once. Research Interests: yes. It was an amazingly clarifying exercise. Should I have a sub-heading under Conference Participation for Conferences Organized or something similar, or a totally separate heading? Should this even BE on a CV, and if so, what’s your best recommendation on how to include it? Does this still have to be put under the ‘Works Submitted’ category? Your internal fellowship absolutely counts under Grants and Fellowships, The teaching can be clarified under the heading: Courses Prepared To Teach. Lastly, how does one start? I have taught part-time at universities and community colleges over the past nine years. I’ve been scrolling and scrolling to find anyone in fine arts. I did not read every comment but I did wonder what you thought of using an extended page number: Name, m/dd/yr, page X on all pages but the first in either the lower left bottom or upper right top. Don’t send more than they ask for, so no portfolio unless requested. [Optional.] It also seems that I might need to emphasize campus committee work and community service a bit more than is mentioned in your posts. If you divide the “Grants and Honors” category into the subcats of grants/fellowships and awards, then you can bury the local award a bit, and also signal that you know that how it’s meaningful — it shows that you did a very good job in a field where there was little competition. In the big picture, that stuff is less important, although at the time it was the difference between paying and not paying rent! PROFESSOR 111 Street Avenue Anytown, CA 90210 pprofessor@email.com 111.555.5555. Thanks for the reply, Karen. If I did writing for a club newsletter or something (while i was still an academic) I would not have listed that work on my ac. My question is this. Include only if relevant to your overall academic qualifications. Year (Year only) on left as noted above. Karen, I am helping someone revise his CV. Editing this bit in my CV as we speak (it’s fellowship season after all). There is variability here, but my advice is that a book goes under a heading labeled: “Books.” Even if it’s just under advance contract, you write, in paren., “(In progress; Under advance contract with U of X Press)” I realize this contradicts the clear subheading division between “in progress” and “published” that I maintained for articles and chapters, but that is because books are “monumental” and get a standalone category that includes those in progress as well as those published. Thank you! Or you can leave off. Do you have suggestions/preferences for font styles (e.g., Specific fonts like Times New Roman, Garamond, etc. The second place is a teeny-tiny liberal arts college that has a great reputation for teaching, but does not have a graduate program. • Bibliographic instruction for UWG 1101 (First Year Experience): 2 Nov. 2012; 20 Sept. 2012; 5 Sept. 2012 I work at a large private university and have an annual review every year for which I must submit an updated CV. Thanks very much! You can include it; just specify the future dates. Readers of your CV will naturally give less weight to your inclusion on those publications than, say, being the first of three authors. Hi KP.I would appreciate this if you emailed me your example.I have made a mess with my latest column experiences. Hi Karen, this is an extremely helpful post, so thank you so much for that! List Ph.D., M.A., B.A. As a reader of CVs, I think it’s useful to see where a book has been reviewed (it helps to add some credibility to claims of interdisciplinarity, for instance). Most educated people will be able to figure that out by looking. Friday Coffee Break « Nothing in biology makes sense! 2) Previous comments suggest that in this context (grad school application materials)it’s ok to list guest lectures. How about using a tinyurl or bit.ly instead? It’s the single […], […] trite, but it’s a different format and was quite a pain and I had nobody to coach me minus this woman’s website, but it’s done. My CV is written and maintained using LaTeX markup. Lorelei, please read my blog post: Ageism and the Academy: My Thoughts and a Request for Yours. Say you have two peer-review publications that are in well known journals and two that are in journals aimed at graduate students. Does it go in community involvement or relevant employment (and if the latter, where does that go?)? Yes, that can be included. This is social capital at work. Now that I’m post-PhD, I still use it, but I’m more selected. But I’m open to other viewpoints on this. I couldn’t figure out what was meant here! Mistakes within the .001 realm in your job documents are enough to keep you from even being shortlisted. Maybe when my children are in college! 2017. Or, now four years out of undergrad, should I drop this chip off my shoulder? Do I still create a heading for “Awards and Fellowships” in the plural, and then list a single item? They said to send them either a c.v. or a resume. I wonder if I should include honorary positions, like Honorary Research Associate in my CV, and if so, under which heading it should go. Regarding work experience… I edited the online resources for an undergraduate textbook in my field of study, for a very well-known publisher (it was a paid, short-term contract), would this go under ‘service to profession’, or ‘professional appointments’? When you talk about including your personal address and institutional address, what would you recommend to an adjunct that works at multiple institutions? What would be a better heading? I have been in those fake interview, where they hiring committee already have in mind who will get the position. What are your recommendations for someone entering academia full-time and with limited full-time university teaching experience? By contrast, writing “see my website for more information” is, in my opinion, tacky. It suggests that even though you are in the humanities, you are competitive enough in a field that it is extraordinarily underfunded to get hard-to-compete external (or internal) funding, which suggests something about the quality of your research. So, I am entirely grant funded through several grants, though I am not always PI on those grants. The class is divided into lecture and lab. Thank you. Also, you mentioned in a previous post that grad students should not put anything under “Professional appointments” as adjuncts or TA’s. How do you feel about hyperlinks in CV’s? becomes superfluous. Month and day of talk go into entries. You may include Dissertation/Thesis Title, and perhaps Dissertation/Thesis Advisor if you are ABD or only 1 year or so from Ph.D.. She said, “this is not going to be hard for you.”. I do tables and make a new cell for each entry. I’m proud of having my work accepted and feel the range of papers paints a great picture of my research interests. In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers … Don’t ask me why, and only a convention, not a strict rule. Thanks! How do I place that in my cv [which is structured 100% according to your rules]? college app? I’m not sure if it should follow the same formula as publications or if it is totally different. References. Please note that forthcoming publications ARE included in this section. This post has been a tremendous help and I have been spending lots of time revamping my CV. Would it be once you are a full professor, or once you are tenured, or once you have a tenure-track job? I love your cite, especially the CV information. Do you recommend that a scholar in the humanities include archival work on the CV? After 2 jobs interviews, they stated that they have chosen, someone with teaching experience….SO I do not know who come first egg or the chicken. Do you think it is permissible to choose either the title of the conference or the name of the group that organized it in order to make the entry more streamlined? It’s comprehensive, and I appreciate your no bs way of describing certain components as unnecessary or “pretentious”. I work from that starting point, following the rules in this post. thank you very much in advance. My school has them listed under their P&T guidelines as “Service,” but now I’m wondering if I should remove them for any other version of my CV? Thanks for all the very helpful advice. Thanks for this site, MW. Thank you so much! Thank you SO much for posting so many helpful suggestions!! RA experience goes here, as well as lab experience. The point here, if it’s not clear, is that you should always be gunning for “the next big thing” so that you have highly prestigious grants/awards within the top 3 or so grants on a cyclical or ongoing basis. I would call it, instead, “Courses Prepared To Teach” or something like that, and yes, that is a valid heading, although not very common. However I have also taught several courses multiple times. I would prefer more voices from advanced people who actually do the reviewing before reversing course and insisting on $$ amounts, but I’ll definitely consider them optional and field-specific now. As a current Undergrad applying to Ph.D programs, looking at my resume before I looked at your advice made me look sloppy and I’m surprised I was awarded so many internships. Everywhere on Earth but here, it is considered to be a positive and an evidence for transdicsiplinary abilities. A resume is a shorter-form document that provides a concise overview of your previous roles, skills and details about your … Under Teaching Experience I have guest lectures listed and mentoring done with undergrad and grad students via independent research study, because otherwise I would have nothing. A younger candidate fresh out of a first Ph.D. would be far preferable, I am told, despite the fact I am essentially offering “two for one” in terms of expertise available at the same pay grade. Very useful and appreciate this cite. Please note that forthcoming publications ARE included in this section. I am wondering if his advice is simply old-fashioned. Yes, you can list the future job with future dates. Do I list these as separate degrees on my CV? I wonder if it is OK to list the invited publications but then put (declined) after them so they know that I did not take them on. I am a Ph.D. Professional Appointments/Employment. I did all I was supposed to, only to find that there are basically no jobs in German. etc. However, under you Gold en Rules for a CV I am feeling a little lost. I Tweeted it. Where can we find LaTeX markup? If I don’t put it in Fellowships/Grants, there will be a two-year apparent gap in funding. A CV cannot show that you did homework on their department, but a cover letter can. invited talks)? On the other hand, doing research on a project is a different task then preparing a publication on the findings from that project. Thank you for your website. Include years of joining when you are more senior and those years recede into the past—demonstrates length of commitment to a field. For older graduate students about to receive a phd and go on the job market who had a career in something else before getting a phd, do we list on the CV under professional experiences those pre-phd experiences even if not related to the discipline of the phd? (table formatting another option as described in comment stream). Any opinion on whether to use hanging indents for publications (as if they were references in an article) or whether to left-justify every line? I’d be inclined to leave it out of Prof. But now I think I’ll delte. I’ve been an adjunct there for a few years. It seemed to give the remaining entries more weight. I was considering titling the section “Teaching Experience and Curricular Development”. It goes under Ed and under any Prof. I know that no one would admit to age discrimination, but even I think the age sounds old. The CV can be created in a program like Word but submitted as a PDF to ensure proper formatting on the receiving end. A curriculum vitae summary is a one-to-two-page, condensed version of a full curriculum vitae. I’ve never encountered it before. This is a very helpful post and helps greatly with the editing of my CV. Two have innocuous titles (though one of these makes fun of Trump), but one is about my life as a graduate student in the voice of Werner Herzog. I’m in a somewhat unique position. I also have the following questions: yes, I am in the same boat as Nneka,I have this question about my 2 Fulbright fellowships. I hold other part-time teaching positions in the area in which I am instructor of record, but I teach these labs at a more esteemed university. And what a great idea for a way to start learning LaTeX / great idea for use of it, for those of use (me!) Same for a semester spent at another school? This points to a certain psychological barrier to CV-development that I think is revealing, and might really go a long way toward explaining why the CVs I get are such an unholy mess. I know this is ok for publications, but what if one knows they are going to teach as an adjunct at a new university in the coming spring semester, do you recommend they incorporate this into their cv before then? Thank you! My university offers a number of committee (and similar) positions that are by application/nomination only, are fairly competitive, and usually come with small stipends. (I have a fair amount of faith that my advisor will make this clear in a letter of rec, I have the great luck of having a fantastic advisor.). I am moving to a new city and will be applying for academic (lecturer and adjunct) jobs after several years working as an editor at a trade publication and owning a small business. No exceptions. I have a question and a comment. Thanks! However, since I have been a committee member whilst being a student rather than a professional I feel that “service to profession” might not be appropriate. You write, “Give course titles BUT NEVER GIVE COURSE NUMBERS! 2. If this is the only one, then just specify in paren next to the course title. [Optional.] Hi Karen, At my school the load is roughly 80% teaching, 10% research. DAY, YEAR, (2) I see you use “Arial Narrow” for your short online CV. they are the same. Does this go in Appointed Positions or Teaching Experience? I have to say, however, that I looked at your cv dated June 2011, and I find it doesn’t really follows all of the advise listed in this post. An odd case study, I know, but your advice would most certainly be welcome. I have to admit that I do not know of any such tools. yes; if you have a number of online courses, make that a whole subheading or category. but I would guess that some or most of my readers are equally incompetent, so that is why i do not recommend columns. Huge waste of computer memory – but VERY rewarding when it comes to appraisal and you reflect on what you have achieved each year 1) Do I list “honorable mention/finalist” status for dissertation and research fellowships? What if you’ve only ever had adjunct appointments? This allows you to show the number of times you’ve taught a course without listing it over and over. Of course, there are other factors, race, ethnic, friends, connections, prejudices against Latinos, and the list goes on. Publications are highly competitive, and go second, with peer reviewed publications taking place of honor. The date, immediately below, centered, is optional. Now the questions: 1) How to deal with a prolonged period of unemployment? They go under fellowships. As my career went on, I had the opportunity to see many c.v.s of many peers from my own and other institutions. It goes under Research Experience. 1. Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Markus W. Büchler Name: Markus W. Büchler Geboren: 1955 Forschungsschwerpunkte: Bauchspeicheldrüse, Pankreas, Transplantationen von Pankreas, Leber und Niere, Transplantationschirurgie, chirurgische Methoden Markus W. Büchler ist akademischer Chirurg. I simply could not get past the ALL CAPS AND HUNDREDS OF EXCLAMATIONS MARKS!!!!!!!! Thank you. Currently on the CV, you cannot tell if he presented it or not. I’m inclined to think yes. I have had a few internship and presented my senior research project at a couple conferences but have never been published. From what I read above, I am thinking I should list my teaching experience first, then my research experience? I’m shouting. Is there a specific format for listing interviews you have done about your work (Specifically print and radio interviews)?
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