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Good to know the common mistakes in order to avoid them in the CV

Useful list of things to avoid on CVs

I found this to be very helpful because there are many pages with samples of CVs and how to set up CVs (all very helpful), but sometimes I feel that looking at what not to do is equally as helpful.

This is an interesting "CV," styled more in the European style or alike an American resume. I like how direct it is, with content grouped to align, presumably, to reflect the position's requirements and the job seeker's skills. I wonder how this can be cross-walked, from a professional experience standpoint, to align better with traditional CV style and content. So many of the other CV examples lack a non-academic professional experience section.

Claire, below is a link to a professor in my department with previous non-academic professional experience. This is the online version of his CV, but it appears in essentially the same format on his "paper" CV. http://ww2.odu.edu/~ckeating/cv/experience.shtml

CV for a US Army Colonel in a professional graduate program at Stanford. I was interested to learn how someone translated their military experience into a CV.

Stanford's CV guide provides writing tips and recommended sections. I found the sample CVs from different disciplines to be the most useful part.

What type of curriculum vitae (CV) is most likely to impress potential employers? One that is simple, straightforward, organized and tailored to fit a job ad, experts say. "Right now it's a very competitive job market, and a CV is your ticket to an interview," says Tara Kuther, PhD, an associate professor of psychology at Western Connecticut State University who has given seminars on writing CVs.

This article stresses both the do's and the don'ts of a CV. I thought the sections on "Honestly Representing Your Work" and "Weight if it's Worth Including" added to the required articles of this module.

Tips, Advice and Guidance on how to write a good CV such as checking spelling and make it simple. all along with examples of good thing to add to your CV and to put first and what to leave last.

I appreciated the percentages reflecting "the most important aspects of CV" based on a 2010 Orange County Resume Survey by Eric Hilden. Spelling and grammar counted 14%, while previous related work experience counted 45%. This resource was not focused on an academic CV (it's from the UK), so it scored education only 9%. I was pleased to see "Easy to read" scoring 25% - this relates to the importance of good, clear design in the CV.

easy, understood and simple description. good tips and suggestions and written in a question answer form. learned how small details can make a huge different.

This University of Pennsylvania resources provided here are phenomenal. I particularly liked, under CVs > CV Guide for Graduate Students, the "Anatomy of a CV and CV Samples" section, which also includes samples of teaching philosophies and research statements and other good tips. Here is a similar resource from Rollins College that also has acceptance, withdrawal and informational interview letter samples: http://www.rollins.edu/careerservices/resumesandcoverletters/samples.html.

For this resource, I found it useful because it explained the difference between CV and resume.

This post is quite helpful in understanding the difference between a CV and a resume. I found a basic search for CV format and content produced several resume articles.

This PDF include information on how to develop a CV and cover letter for pursuing a career in academia.

This article picks apart a new (geography) graduate's CV, pinpointing formatting errors, grammatical missteps, and content mistakes.

This is pretty similar to my first CV before I took the class or saw a career counselor

CV of Charles Bazerman at University of California - Santa Barbara (public research)

Very thorough website that describes each section of the CV in detail, plus has example CVs.

This site provides good description of the common sections of a CV. Additional topics covered on this site include: cover letters, sample resumes, interviewing

CV from a Dean and Professor at Rose-Hulman, a private four-year engineering institute in Indiana. I was searching for a different Carnegie classification than my previous posts, but still within my discipline. This document is labeled as a CV, but I suspect this is an abridged version for the web.

Another military CV, but this time from someone closer to my experience and working at a service academy. This CV focuses on teaching.

This Stanford University resource provides sample CVs for several fields. I found the Administration and Policy Analysis example most helpful, although the field is slightly different from my own, because of the combination of corporate and academic experience in the CV.