This is the portfolio of a professor of IR at Mary Baldwin College. I like the layout quite a bit and how it does double-duty as a professional and teaching resource.

I am posting this because this seems to be one of the older versions of web-based portfolios, particularly those that are hosted off university URLs and primarily reflect a collection of online referrals. This page feels dated.

Dr. Earnest is a professor of IPE at Old Dominion. He leverages a LinkedIn page, which is increasingly common in the field. He also maintains pages at academia.edu.

Dr. Gaubatz is a professor of IR at Old Dominion. His site is solid; I especially like how it is connected directly to his current research projects' commercial web sites.

I loved this for the simple truth it reveals: we all find balance in our day through a full and extended network of supports and services - whether IT or a maid, or whatever else - that make it "work." It's just as true for academia as for any other profession.

A very interesting, albeit dated, study examining how an institution's culture can be (or attempted to be) changed to facilitate greater work-life balance. The results revealed that questions of work-life balance largely had gendered components that were more difficult to transform through typical culture approaches.

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 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.

This article says all of the things I want to shout from the rooftops. Work-life balance is an artificial construct, but it has real implications, and so many of those implications are determined by the workplace culture and "home" culture developed for and by us through large employers. More to the point, "It's imperative then that the companies we work for and lead develop values, culture and policies that support the full lives of employees."

This article resonates with my own definition of work-life balance, or rather my interpretation that it is an artificial bifurcation of one's life. Or, "Again, there is no work-life balance in academia. You need to figure out what works for you and when you work best."

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.

While there are several elements of this CV that I would adjust from a content perspective, I like the style and topography. It is easy to read and "clean."

This CV is heavily research focused and is a helpful demonstration of a solid CV for purposes of seeking a tenure-track faculty position in a research institution.

This might seem a little basic, but sometimes it can be difficult to translate experiences that are rote or normal onto a CV/resume using clear and interesting language. Everything I have read suggests that action-oriented language is more powerful, and this article groups a bunch of action verbs by skills sets. Very handy.

This article in Inside Higher Ed says most of what we have read elsewhere, but it had a good tip I had not seen: hand over your CV/resume to someone who does not know you well, and ask them what they learned about you. That seems like a good way to determine if the CV/resume is getting your most salient points across, or not.

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.

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.