The document provides tips for preparing an effective curriculum vitae (CV). It recommends starting with your name rather than writing "Curriculum Vitae" and including contact information, education history, research experience, publications, and presentations while omitting personal details. Major points covered include using a reverse chronological format, standard referencing, and distinguishing between published, accepted, and submitted works. The document also suggests tailoring the CV for different uses and keeping it up to date.
2. How to prepare a CV?
1. Dont start with a heading Curriculum Vitae
its obvious, redundant, and takes up
needed space.
2. Begin with your name and surname instead.
3. If the readers may not be able to surmise
your gender from your name, consider
putting Ms or Mr in parentheses before
your name.
3. Typical information
Address and contact information
(dont forget to include your e-mail address!)
Education
(Honours and Awards)
Research
(Teaching Experience)
(Extracurricular Activities)
Publications
4. How to prepare a CV?
1. Make sure to list your publications and major
presentations, e.g. papers given at national
conferences.
2. Use a standard format for references
(already discussed).
3. If a paper has been accepted, but not yet
published, list it as in press.
4. If it has been submitted, but not yet
accepted, dont list it under Publications,
but mention it in the Research section.
5. How to prepare a CV?
5. A scientific CV should not contain personal
information, such as date of birth, marital
status, health, or hobbies.
6. It is considered tacky to include a picture of
yourself in your CV.
7. If there is nothing to list under given category,
simply omit the category.
8. CVs are structured in reverse chronological
order, i.e. within each category, items are listed
from the most recent to the least recent.
6. How to prepare a CV?
9. Students: Include some contact information
that is unlikely to change, not the address
of your dorm or of a flat youre currently
renting.
10.Consider having different versions of your
CV for different uses.
11.Remember to keep your CV up to date.
12.Proofread your CV very carefully, or better
yet ask someone else to do so.
Editor's Notes
#3: Every scientist needs a good CV, but how to prepare it?
#4: Typical information that should be included in your CV. The information in parentheses is not always necessary.
#8: Fig. 1. Sample scientific CV (source: Robert A. Day, How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, 6th Edition)