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Tips for Writing a Curriculum Vitae
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- CVs should contain the following information:
- Your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address
- Current position (if you have a teaching appointment
other than TA-ship)
- Date (or expected date) of degrees and institutions
(Ph.D., MA, and BA)
- Title of thesis (and advisor's name if useful)
- Publications--books, articles, book reviews
- Academic grants and awards
- Conference papers presented
- Research and teaching fields
- Teaching experience, including courses taught
- List of references
- Other optional information you may want to include:
- Foreign language proficiency
- Memberships in professional associations
- Administrative or service experience (if relevant to
position)
- Prior non-academic work experience (if relevant to
position)
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Do not include extraneous
information such as unrelated work experience, personal
background, etc. There is no need to pad your CV--it will be
obvious to the reader and will not help your chances. Two
pages is fine.
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Pay attention to visual
presentation. Use bold subheads to highlight your categories
and break up large sections of text. If you don't have
enough entries to constitute a separate category, combine
them with creative titles such as "Publications and Works in
Progress." If a category is too long, break it into two
(e.g., "Books" and "Articles"). If you know someone who has
experience with graphic design, ask them to help you with
formatting.
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For some people, a single CV
will do for all jobs. Others may want to prepare two or more
versions of their CV for different types of jobs. The most
common scenario would be to have two versions: one stressing
teaching, the other stressing research and publications. In
most cases, it's just a matter of shuffling the categories
around to emphasize your strengths for the particular job or
to restate your teaching interests.
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