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What is the difference between a résumé and a CV?
A résumé:
- Will usually be one page at most, possibly two pages
- Begins with a short statement of goals or objectives directly below your contact info
- Includes only educational and field experiences most relevant to a specific job opportunity
- Generally for job applications outside of academia
A Curriculum Vitae :
- Will be shorter earlier in your career, but will grow longer over time as you accumulate relevant experiences (possibly over 5 pages)
- Can include descriptions of duties (2 to 4 phrases per position)
- Will be used at promotion and tenure to assess career growth
Check out the Chronicle of Higher Education article on converting a CV to a resume.
What should be included in a CV?
- Use relevant categories in your CV to organize your responsibilities
Contact information
- At the top of the first page
- List both home and work addresses, including professional email address
- Put your name at the beginning and at the top of every subsequent page
Education
- Should be first major category
- Include institution, department, and major for each degree
- Give dissertation/thesis title and date, as well as the name of the advisor
Teaching Experience
- After Education if you are applying for or documenting a position emphasizing teaching; otherwise it goes after Research Experience
- Indicate institution, department, teaching position title, course title, course level, class sizes, and number of sections
- Be as specific as you can about teaching duties since these can vary widely
- Lecturing/discussion (How frequently?)
- Grading (Exams? Papers? Homework? Participation?)
- Syllabus/exam/test/quiz design
Research Experience
- After Education if you are applying for or documenting a position emphasizing research; otherwise it goes after Teaching Experience
- Indicate institution, department, and research position title for each activity
- Give project titles or brief descriptions of the research
- Include any specific techniques used if the research was highly technical
- Give names of principle investigators or supervisors
- Indicate number and status of authored papers resulting from each research project
Administrative Experience
- After Education if you are applying for or documenting a position emphasizing administration
- Indicate institution, department, and administrative position title for each activity
- Include mentoring undergraduate or graduate research or being a head TF
- Indicate duties/areas of responsibility
- Indicate number of people managed
- Indicate if you managed any budgets and the amounts
Publications
- Use standard and consistent citation format for your field
- Consider highlighting your name in each citation, especially if you are one author among many on some papers
- Number the citations if there are many
Presentations at conferences
- Use standard and consistent citation format for your field
- Consider highlighting your name in each citation, especially if you were one presenter among many in a panel
Awards
- Describe the selection criteria (and the degree of selectivity if the competition level was high) of each award
Grants
- Indicate title of grant, agency or foundation, amount, names of co-investigators, and beginning and ending dates
Service
- Campus or community involvement, particularly if it is relevant to your discipline
- Professional service (e.g. reviews, committees)
Special skills
- Include specialized computer skills, fluency in foreign languages, research techniques, etc.
Professional organization membership
References
- These should be professional references. Any personal (character) references should be listed as such.
- These should be people who have agreed to write letters in support of your application.
Other useful tips and resources
- Within each category, use reverse chronological order and indicate the dates
- Use descriptive verbs to briefly characterize each activity. Be sure to use the correct verb tense to reflect whether you are still doing this activity or not.
- Only include positions that are relevant to your career development or to the job for which you are applying.
Heiberger, M.M. and Vick, J.M. (September 26, 2003) The CV Doctor Returns. The Chronicle of Higher Education .
Heiberger, M.M. and Vick, J.M. (1996) The Academic Job Search Handbook , 2nd edition. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Jackson, A.L. (1993) Here's How: Prepare your Curriculum Vitae . Chicago, Illinois: NTC LearningWorks.
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