Year must be visible, not buried in the entry itself.

When you produce is as important as what you produce. Search and tenure committees wish to easily track yearly output. Why, you ask? Because candidates are evaluated by their productivity over time. YEAR (but not month or day) OF EVERY ENTRY THROUGHOUT CV LEFT JUSTIFIED, with tabs or indent separating year from substance of entry. Page breaks will constantly move as CV grows. This interferes with the constant adjustments a dynamic professional CV will undergo on a weekly/monthly basis. No “box” or column formatting of any kind. No bullet points at all, ever, under any circumstances. One return/blank line between each heading and its first entry.ĭo not full/right justify any element of the cv. One or two full returns (ie, blank lines) before each new heading. NO ITALICS OF ANY KIND EXCEPT FOR JOURNAL AND BOOK TITLES (Brits, I’m talking to you) No switching of font sizes for any element, EXCEPT the candidate name at top, which can be in 14 or perhaps 16.

The CV can be created in a program like Word but submitted as a PDF to ensure proper formatting on the receiving end.Ĭandidates seeking work in the UK or Canada might want to consult with experts from those countries for opinions on whether this American model CV will work against candidates in searches there. These norms govern the CVs that are submitted as pdf elements of a job application. These are the typical norms for American CVs (again, admitting of enormous variation among fields and individuals). British and Canadian CV-writers will note that the font is larger, the length is greater, the margins wider, and the white spaces more abundant than you may be used to. These expectations will produce a highly-readable, well-organized CV on the American academic model. While the CV genre permits a wide range of variation, and there is no consensus on the value or desirability of one particular style, I am going to present a list of expectations that govern my own work at The Professor Is In. Today’s post is a long overdue post on CVs. Please note this advice is continually checked and updated! Including for COVID.

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