Education and Interests
The top of your C.V. should showcase your education and academic interests. This is the introduction to yourself and your background.
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Tips:
- keep only undergraduate and beyond in your C.V. unless you are barely leaving high school
- Make your academic interests related to the field(s) you are working towards or have experience in
- Include honors and awards in this section if you don't have that many (if you have a lot, create a whole section for this)
Experiences
If you are just getting started , you want to emphasize your experiences the most.
Divide your experiences based on these subcategories:
- Research Experience
- Leadership Experience
- Teaching/Tutoring Experience
- Clinical Experience
- Work Experience
- Extracurriculars and Projects
You want to put any possible research experience at the top, and then the rest can be arranged based on their relevance and/or timeline
Publications and Presentations
Depending on how many publications and presentations you have, you might want to put this above the experiences section(s). However, if you are just getting started it can go below them.
Have one separate section for publications and one section for presentations. Keep them as a list of citations (preferably APA format or similar) and bold your name in the contributing authors list
Skills
Skills section can be more brief than what is seen on a resume, but have it relate to your academic experiences and goals.
Common subcategories to have:
- Laboratory skills
- Computer skills
- Data collection types
- Data analysis and visualization programs
- Languages
- Certifications and Trainings
References
Another difference from a resume is that your CV should have your references and/or supervisors listed. A big part of academia is connections and references, so you want to list up to 4 academics to vouch for you.