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This page is intended for undergraduates, but there are very few pages of IT Portfolios. This pages can easily be adapted to a graduate student. - ERR General description Purposes Location Contents Assessment Login to your developmental portfolio (Note: For sample entries, login with userid and password as istsample) Back to the Information Science and Technology home page General description Any student majoring, minoring, and/or receiving a teaching endorsement in Information Science and Technology must develop a developmental portfolio.

General tips on CV writing, not specific to academia.

Contrasts CVs and resumes. Provides links and tips, primarily for resume writing. Focuses on science, but general enough for any discipline.

This is alike many other recent, and trending, articles/blogs/etc. on HuffPo and elsewhere that explore the ties between feminism and work-life balance, and the structured inequalities that perpetuate the misnomer of work-life balance, particularly for women. What it helpful about these discussions is that - increasingly - they extend beyond the female-professional-as-mother dialogue and to the professional-as-caregiver dialogue, which so many of the Sandwich Generation, Millennials and Generation Y will face all too well.

This is a presentation by UCLA for their grad students who are starting to create a CV.

Gives a brief and general overview of creating a CV. I think it is very good for a teaching position, doesn't seem geared towards research per-say, and that's just my opinion on how they suggest to format the CV.

Some general tips on writing a CV for a government job.

We are constantly re-adjusting our lives. Our lives are not constant and there are different challenges that sneak into it. We have to be flexible and accept that.

I love TED talks. The biggest take away was: Be realistic about your situation.

This article focuses on small tips to adjust one's work-life balance in academia, but it could be generalized to other professions. The recommendations are not surprising, but I can't imagine on only playing with one's children for only 15 minutes per day.

This article helps us to understand how the work-life balance conversation emerged and why it is so meaningful, and so different, from traditional conversations about work versus personal life of prior generations and decades. The dialogue is largely driven by the new economic realities of the 21st century and, in turn, the inability and/or attempt by large employers and employees to adjust.

These samples have been generously donated by UCSF students, postdocs, and alumni, in order to offer you ideas about how to present your own skills and experiences. We make no claims that they are perfect, but we offer them as useful examples.... I think this is very useful because there are multiple types of CVs to look at. Additionally there are helpful tips throughout the main page as well.