Preparing Future Faculty

I enjoyed this handout because it explains what a curriculum vitae (CV) is, how it differs from a resume, and how you can decide which one to use.

This this a detailed video breaking down how start writing a CV.

This article focuses of the presentation of the CV.

Example CV of Dr. Dahlia Adel Abbass, assistant Accounting professor at the University of Egypt.

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.

Provides tips on making teaching and writing more efficient, presumably freeing more time for "life." I've seen a version of his "paragraph response sheet" used by one of the full professors in my department. HIs point on tenure evaluation equivalencies reinforces my opinion that it is important to find a mentor or advocate at your institution that has served on the promotion and tenure committee for advice.

This article suggests not using fellow faculty as subject matter experts in work-life balance issues that require interacting with administrators or human resource personnel. The recommendation is to treat each challenge as an opportunity for research and to seek out the appropriate sources, much like a study or investigation.

This is my favorite professional website. It's cool, professional, and very informative. I would like to create something similar for my specialty in national security analysis.

My advisor's ODU directory page. I suppose this a standard template for faculty here. It has many of the same categories as LinkedIn, but not blog or commentary capability.

My undergraduate advisor's professional page at Virginia Tech. It is a nice one page format with just the most important information. Similar to my current advisor's official site, it has no blog or commentary.

The Google Scholar site for a December graduate of my program. I thought this would be a good contrast to the others, with each example being at different points in their career.

This is the professional page for one of my favorite undergraduate professors. Terry Kubichan is a senior lecturer in the accounting department of Old Dominion University.

Douglas Skinner is a leading expert in corporate disclosure practices, corporate financial reporting, and corporate finance, with a focus on payout policy. He teaches accounting at The University of Chicago.

These are great tips that are useful in higher education. When I was an undergraduate, I never built downtime into my schedule and wish I did. It gives a person time to relax.

Great resource! I liked that the article described how academic life has changed due to technology.

I liked that the article suggested time management.

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.

Provides a index to compare life balance across OECD countries. The US appears in the hardest working third of the profile, which is unsurprising. It would be interesting to find a comparison of productivity.

A world-wide index of countries and work-life study results.

I posted this after looking at OECD's Better Life Index in my previous post. After some quick research, per capita GDP seems to be the most widely accepted measure of national productivity. It would be interesting to crosswalk productivity with life satisfaction.