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      Chapter 9

      CVs

      Your CV is always the first thing you will be asked to send to a hiring institution. Faculty positions always require a multi-page summary of your academic accomplishments, not a one-page business resume. In preparing it, your goal is to create enough interest in your candidacy that you will be granted an interview. Design your CV so that your strongest qualifications stand out if a search committee member skims it for only a few seconds, and with enough supporting detail that it will stand up to scrutiny during a thorough reading.

       Getting Started

      Before beginning to write your CV, review your educational and professional history. Using the categories suggested below, list everything you imagine could possibly be included. Eventually you will decide what to include or exclude, but begin by ensuring that you are not overlooking anything relevant. Write a draft, experiment with the format, look at sample CVs, eliminate irrelevant information, have the CV critiqued, and do a final review of your document before you send it to any institution. Your CV will continue to evolve both as you target different types of institutions and as you move forward in your career and add credentials.

       Content

      A CV always includes your name and contact information and information about your education, academic experience, publications, presentations, and honors. It may also include professional, extracurricular, and community activities; professional memberships; foreign languages; research interests; teaching competencies; grants; names and contact information for references; and selected personal data. Your name and information about how to contact you should appear at the top of the first page. If you are completing a Ph.D., the first section will be “Education.” If you are applying from a postdoc or current faculty position, you may put your current experience first, followed by your education. Next, include categories in decreasing order of importance. If you’ve applied for an NIH grant or other grants, your job market CV may look different from the grant CV. And, in contrast to a resume for a nonacademic position, a CV for a faculty or postdoctoral position typically does not include an “Objective,” “Summary,” or statement of the type of position you want. Within each category, give information in reverse chronological order, from most recent backward. Be concise; use phrases rather than complete sentences.

      Name

      On the first page, list your full name at the top, separate from other information. Consider putting your name in a slightly larger font. After the first page, list your last name and a page number at the top or bottom of every page. If your name has recently changed and you have scholarly accomplishments in your older name, the clearest way to acknowledge this is to include your previous name on the CV: for example, Jane E. (Doe) Smith. Similarly, international scholars who are commonly known by a name other than their given name should include both names, e.g., Xaofu (Charles) Wang. Also, some people want to make their gender clear when their given name is undifferentiated and may add Mr. or Ms. to their name.

      Contact Information

      You may include home and/or office addresses, one email address, one phone number, and a URL, if you have a professional website. If you are graduating find out if you’ll have access to your institutional email. If you’ll lose that email address check into getting an alumni email account. Choose one email and one phone number which you check regularly to give to search committees.

      Education

      List each institution, degree, field of concentration, and date at which a degree was received. Search committees want to know when your dissertation will be finished, so indicate the anticipated date of completion. If you are just beginning your dissertation and are preparing a CV for a fellowship or part-time position, you may want to include a date for the latest formal stage of graduate work you have completed (“Coursework completed, May 2014”; “Passed examinations with distinction, December 2014”; or whatever formal marker of progress your program may have). If you are a postdoctoral fellow, you will include your postdoctoral experience in its own section or in a research section.

      Include the title of your dissertation and the name of your advisor. You may include the names of committee members if you think their inclusion will be helpful to you. You may also list additional research projects or additional areas of concentration. You may include activities related to your graduate training, for example, “President, Graduate Chemistry Society.” If you have been very active in graduate student government, you may wish to create a separate section entitled “Committees” or “University Service,” which would appear after listings of more relevant academic detail. You may include relevant undergraduate academic accomplishments but do not go into detail about them. GPA is not normally included at the doctoral level. For U.S. job searches it is the norm to omit high school. On the rare occasion where it may be advantageous to call attention to your secondary education, it can be included in an additional information section at the end of your CV.

      Honors

      Sometimes people include honors and fellowships as a separate section on their CV; sometimes they list them under “Education” with the corresponding degree. Whether you have a separate section depends on how important

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