Curricula Vitae

List your name, address, email, and phone number. A LinkedIn profile url or a professional webpage of your portfolio, may also be included.

List degree, school, dates, city, province or country in reverse chronological order. You may include the name of your advisor and thesis or dissertation title in this section, or include a separate section about your thesis.

Include the title of your thesis or dissertation and the name of your advisor. In some fields, it is expected to include the names of additional committee members and a short summary of the thesis or dissertation.

This section is typically used to show your compatibility with a particular role and should be tailored to align with the position you are applying to. Not all positions require this section on a CV.

List your scholarships, awards, honours and achievements in reverse chronological order. Also include your name, grantor (e.g., NSERC, NIH), date, and project title if appropriate. Include  the dollar amount granted.

As you advance in your scholarly career, you may remove some older awards. For example, someone at the PhD level may only include an undergraduate award if it was very prestigious. You may also wish to create subsections in this category to distinguish between awards granted. For example, you may list “Fellowships” separately from “Awards.”

Include publications you’ve authored or co-authored in reverse chronological order. Provide title, authors, dates, and publishers using the citation style appropriate to your discipline. If you have different types of publications, you may wish to use subheadings to organize this section. For example, you may list “Book Chapters”, “Articles”, and “Monographs”.

It may be strategic to include sections for “Forthcoming” or “In-Progress” publications. Consult with your advisor to determine if it is appropriate to do so.

In some fields, you may combine presentations with your “Publications” section, but in many cases, this should be a separate section. Include the title of the presentation, the name of the organization, the location of the meeting or conference, and the date. List the presentations in reverse chronological order.

You may use subheadings to distinguish different types of presentations. Example subheadings include “Conference Presentation,” “Invited Talk”, and “Public Lecture”.

If the position you are applying to will involve a strong focus on teaching responsibilities, you may wish to include this section quite early in your CV. Use subheadings to distinguish between different types of teaching experience. Examples include “Teaching Assistant Positions” and “Instructor Positions.” List the title of the course, the institution, and the department where the course was offered. It is optional to include the course number (eg. CHEM 399).

Since you are writing to other academics who will typically have a good understanding of what is involved in post-secondary teaching, it is often not necessary to include bullet points describing the nature of your responsibilities (e.g., “Delivered lectures and graded exams”). Consult others in your field to determine if you need to describe your teaching responsibilities or simply list the courses.

If you wish, you may include other initiatives you engaged with, designed, or coordinated to enhance the learning experiences of students. This may include the use of new teaching technologies, approaches to teaching and instruction, etc.

In some fields, it is common to include a section describing the projects you have worked on, often with the use of bullet points. This may include your work as a research associate or research assistant. Depending on your field and the position you are targeting, this section may appear considerably earlier in the CV. If you have experience with research outside of a university setting, consult with your mentor to determine if it should be located here or in a separate section.

This section is optional, and should only be used to highlight work that is relevant to your academic discipline. Some fields have a close relationship with industry, and highlighting industry experience in this section can be very useful. You may also use this section to highlight how you are a practitioner as well as a scholar.

List your experience in reverse chronological format. Include job title, employer, dates, city or country, and possibly a brief statement or series of statements about your accomplishments in the role.

Depending on your field and the nature of your research, it may be useful to include a point form list of the skills and techniques that are relevant to your research interests. This section is most common in STEM and social science fields, but many humanists may want to list skills related to digital projects and their fluency in relevant languages. Make sure to indicate written, read, and spoken skills.

This section is optional but it can be a convenient place to list seminars, summer schools and relevant professional development opportunities (e.g., a pedagogical training workshop).

Membership in related scholarly or professional associations can demonstrate your commitment to your career and professionalization. List your memberships with the dates.

Include any service to the university or discipline in this section, such as participation in committees, organizing conferences, reviewing for journals, or participating in graduate student associations. You may use subheadings to create categories if necessary. You do not typically need to describe the activity. For example, you do not need to include bullet points for each service description.

This section is optional and may be included if you have community activities relevant to your scholarly interests. Examples include public talks at museums or volunteering with science education programs in local schools.

List the names and titles of 3 references with their email and phone information.

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