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Email required Address never made public. Name required. Archives August July June Follow Following. English Business Writing. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. It is important to develop relationships with faculty members while you are in graduate school so you will be in a position to ask for letters. If you have not already finished your dissertation, it must be the case that your thesis advisor can and will honestly say that you will finish by the end of the year.
Talk to your advisor in the spring or summer before you plan to go on the job market to confirm that you agree on what would have to be done in order to finish by this time. You really need that letter to say that you will finish. You should also ask your thesis advisor, or someone else, to write about your teaching. Give the person who will do this a list of the courses you have taught and copies of any teaching evaluations you have.
A little known fact is that all professors in our department are supposed to evaluate their teaching assistants. These evaluations should be on file with the department secretaries. While you are not supposed to see these evaluations, you can ask that they be sent to the person who is writing about your teaching.
You should not be timid about asking for letters. Faculty members often have to solicit letters on their own behalf when they apply for grants or promotions. And, of course, we had to get them when we were in your shoes.
It is natural to feel uncomfortable when you are asking someone to take the time to evaluate you. Nonetheless, it is part of this line of work and everyone knows it. So try not to procrastinate or be indirect: just ask and make everything, due dates especially, clear. A CV is an academic resume. It should include information about your education, teaching, and research.
A good CV strikes a balance between standardization and personalization. It should meet expectations in formatting and content so those reading it can find what they want to know quickly. But it should also apply those rules in a way that brings out your distinctive strengths and qualities. I have mocked up a small sample CV to give you an idea of the relevant categories and how one might format them.
This is just to get you started: the rules are flexible and should be made to accommodate your particular strengths and taste. AOS means that you could teach on the graduate level in an area and publish in it. AOC means that you could teach on the undergraduate level in an area. Americans and Canadians would only use a CV when applying for a job abroad or if searching for an academic or research-oriented position. In Germany, the CV is more commonly known as a Lebenslauf true to the Latin origins and is only one of many application documents poor German job seekers must produce to get an interview.
The term resume is used more for jobs in the private sector and CV is more commonplace when applying for public service positions. So what gives if you apply for an American company in Europe or vice versa? The jaded folks in HR will accept both types although I would recommend you use the local version. Which do you prefer, the CV, the resume, both, none? Have you spent your career only investing in yourself or investing in others? When a hiring manager is looking for clues about what you would be like as a potential employee, he or she wants to hear the good and the bad.
You see, your job search is only as strong as your weakest reference. We all have our flaws.
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