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Chapter 15 ➤ When You Really Are a Brain Surgeon: Curriculum Vitae

➤ Research
➤ Studies
➤ Grants
➤ Lectures
➤ Teaching
➤ Licenses Career Casualty
➤ Media Appearances If you have just one item to list
under a heading, make sure the
Remember, more is more when it comes to your CV, so think name of the heading is singular,
hard about all that you can include. not plural (for example,
Professional Affiliation, not
Professional Affiliations).
High Marks for a University Instructor

Ruth Schwartz used the following curriculum vitae to apply for
college-level positions teaching Creative Writing. She realized that
her main strength lay in her numerous publications and awards,
and her weakness was that she had only one year of teaching at
the university level. Therefore, she highlighted her list of publica-
tions by putting it on the first page of her CV. That way readers
would already be impressed by the time they reached her rather
meager teaching section, which began near the bottom of page
Job-Hunt Hint
four.
To indicate that a laundry list on
your CV does not include every
Create Your CV single item in that category, add
“Selected” or “Relevant” in the
Now that you have your feet wet, it’s time to jump in. Create
heading, for instance, Selected
strong sections in your CV by using the concepts presented in
Presentations or Relevant
Part 2. With the additional sections mentioned in this chapter,
Presentations.
your CV is likely to run several pages, all of which should have
the following information:
➤ Your name at the top of each page
➤ The page number (placed on either the top or bottom of each page)
➤ “Continued” at the bottom of each page (except the last one)

When you’ve done all of this, sit back, read through your CV, and admire how accom-
plished you are!

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