You’ll be starting your CV if you don’t have one already. If you have one, you might be reorganizing it.
We will begin by examining CVs of those scholars in our disciplines. And don’t fret. You might not feel that you have much to put on your CV yet (but don’t underestimate yourself). Some people will come with more publications than others, sure, but again, don’t fret. This is not an exercise in comparing one to another. This is an exercise in learning how to construct a CV for your future, and that is appropriate to your field. You might have a CV with empty categories (for now) that you know you want to fill. That’s for you to keep on hand, and for you to use to discuss with your advisor what opportunuties to take on, and what to pass on (because you will need to make choices).
We don’t want you learning how to write a CV when you are about to graduate. We want you to begin yours now, and use refer to it as a living document that tracks your accomplishments and helps outlines your goals.
In addition, you’ll be creating a website to represent yourself as a new scholar. Unlike the CV, which is your choice when to make public, I encourage you to make your website public. Again, you might have a lot to put on there, or you might not! No problem. But you exist as a PhD student in a program in a university, with an advisor. You’ll soon be going to conferences, and so having a scholarly, digital presence that describes your interests and affiliations is valuable no matter how nascent---and then you grow from there.
Details in the syllabus about when these items are due.
Short Presentations. Each student will have 10 minutes to present what they learned about creating their CVs and websites. Students should show the results of their websites, but can choose to publicize their CVs or not. CVs will be turned into the instructor.
The presentation should include slides that allow you to speak to the following topics
- An overview of what material you already had in place to draw from for creating your own CV and website (a resume, statements, an existing website repurposed, nothing etc). (1 minute)
- Identification which published CVs you found that seemed most representative of CVs in your subfield as content-aspiration, and why (2 minutes)
- An expressed goal of items you would like to have be in your CV by the ends of year 1 and year 2 of their PhD. (1 minute)
- Identification of personal academic websites that were inspirational in terms of content and basic design. (2 minutes)
- A review of your web site, and what you chose to include for now, and what you plan to include in the future. (3 minute)
- Questions from audience (1 minute)
Evaluation of talk, CV and website:
CV Full Completion: 3 points
Website High Quality Completion: 3 points
Presentation: 3 points (.5 point for each bulleted item above, 1-6). A point will be docked for going over time, so please plan accordingly!