Curriculum Vitae

A résumé is a one-page summary of your education, job experience, etc., to be easily added to a cover letter. In the academic world—or coming out of it into teaching, working in non-profits or arts management—the curriculum vitae, or CV, is the appropriate form to present your accomplishments to a prospective employer.

Your CV should be tailored for specific jobs, inside the academy, such as teaching, academic positions (program coordination for example), or outside, either in a business setting (publishing, magazines, presses) or in a non-profit setting (director, grant-writer, brochures, publications, presentations). We will consider in our first seminar how to generate a sort of “master” CV that contains all the things you might need, then discuss how to select from this “menu” to tailor a CV for a particular job, i.e., what to include and what to leave out.

Generally, an effective, detailed CV will include most of the following categories:

~Contact information
~Professional, career or research objective (optional, mostly used when sending out a general CV)
~Education (colleges only)
~Thesis title and advisor (in progress)
~Graduate fieldwork (include volunteer and intern)
~Awards and honors
~Grants and fellowships
~Publications (creative and academic separate)
~Presentations (at any level)
~Workshops (at any level)
~Conferences attended (even if only as an attendee)
~Work experience (focus on those related to the job for which you are applying)
~Skills (interpersonal, computer, technology)
~Study abroad
~Language skills
~Professional memberships
~References (optional, but sometimes provided at the time of the interview)

Below are some links to helpful websites you might want to review either before our class on Saturday or after, as you revise your CV. Remember these are just resources, so do what I do: borrow anything that you like (a category, the way it is presented, the language used). The first one is a website about the CV in general, then there are some CVs that are specific to creative writing. Because these will not hyperlink, you will need to copy and paste into your browser, but you should be able to get to them that way. Good luck!

~ Website:
jobsearch.about.com/od/cvsamples/a/cvtemplate.htm
Site includes numerous curriculum vitae templates and provides discussion and examples of what to include in your CV, also shows the appropriate format for a cv. Shows a sample academic cv: http://jobsearch.about.com/library/cvsample/blcvacademic.htm
Also shows what an international cv looks like.

~ Sample CV:
Google Images have some fine examples, as in:
campusapps2.fullerton.edu/.../SampleCV.aspx


~ Some sample creative writer’s CVs:

http://internet2.trincoll.edu/FacProfiles/CVs/1015934.pdf

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