For Graduate Students: Creating an Effective CV
Related Links on Academic Careers & CVs
The Academic Job Search
- Academic interview advice from an MIT Postdoc ( pdf | ppt)
- UC Berkeley's web page for PhD's has many useful links on the Academic Career and Job Search.
- Another great website on Landing an Academic Job (written by Jon Dantzing, a mechanical engineering faculty member at U IL at Urbana-Champaign. Relevant to many disciplines). Also see pdf and postscript versions of this document.
- From the Chronicle of Higher Education: "The Ones We Didn't Hire"
- Two resources at MIT: The Writing Center (offers advice on written and oral presentations, and more), and The Teaching and Learning Laboratory (can help you improve your teaching skills).
- Getting Great Letters of Recommendation
See Academic Job Search Timeline
- Click here to see a timeline for the academic job search written by an MIT Biology Postdoc
See Articles on Academic Job Interviews
Advice on CV's
- CV & Writing Samples for Life Scientists (UCSF)
- PhDs.org web site (search for "CV")
- Writing a CV - U Virginia Career Office site (pdf)
- The Basics of Science CVs (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Richard Reis gives specific advice for writing a science CV.
- "CV Doctors" Mary Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick (The Chronicle of Higher Education) offer advice for five CVs in social sciences, education, humanities, fine arts, and the sciences, and rework the CVs of two faculty members and an administrator at various stages in their careers, and rework three academic CVs into resumes for administrative and nonacademic positions.
- Transforming a CV to a resume
Advice on Supporting Documents (Teaching & Research Statements)
- Article on writing a research plan (for the academic job search) (ScienceCareers.org)
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/1820/writing_a_research_plan - Article on writing the Teaching Statement (for the academic job search) (ScienceCareers.org)
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/2006_04_14/writing_the_teaching_statement/ - Article on The Truth About Teaching and Research Statements (for the academic job search) (used by permission of the author, Peter Fiske)
- Extensive advice on creating a Teaching Portfolio (Ohio State U.)
- How to Write a Statement of Teaching Philosophy (from The Chronicle of Higher Education)
- Writing a Research Plan (may be relevant for research statement)
- Advice on fellowship proposals (may be relevant for postdoctoral fellowship applications)
- How to Write a Teaching Statement
- What's Your Philosophy on Teaching and Does it Matter?
- Writing a Philosophy of Teaching Statement (from Ohio State University - instructions on how to write teaching statements)
- "How to write an Effective Research Statement" (from U Penn)
Cover Letters for Academic Jobs (Articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education)
- "What Small Colleges Really Want" (8/29/2005)
- To whom it may concern: reading job applications (2/21/2001)
- How to write winning cover letters (4/21/2000)
- CV's, Cover Letters, and References: How to Present Yourself on Paper (10/30/1998)
European CV's
- Eurograduate (On map, click on the country for which you are preparing CV)
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