Questions tagged [cv]
A curriculum vitae (CV) or resume provides an overview of a person's education, academic and industry experience, some of his qualifications, research interests and a list of his references. A CV may be optimized and edited to highlight some parts of the CV to be presented into a research institute or to apply for a job.
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Should I omit bad papers from my CV that I didn't want to write?
I am starting a second postdoc in mathematics. During my first postdoc, my original mentor basically forced me to write papers with him that I did not want to write. These papers are very very bad. I ...
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Do all U.S. National Labs require a minimum GPA from PhD programs when hiring researchers? [closed]
I would like to know whether all National Laboratories in the United States require a minimum GPA from candidates who have completed a PhD program and are applying for researcher positions.
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Is there academic value in maintaining a "failed ideas" section in your research notebook or portfolio?
In the course of research, I often explore promising ideas that ultimately lead nowhere — conjectures disproved, models that don't fit data, or approaches that dead-end due to an overlooked flaw. ...
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Questions About Publishing Mathematical Papers as a Recent Undergraduate
I am a recent graduate in Computer Science. I applied to several universities but received rejections, which led me to believe that my CV and GPA were not strong enough for acceptance. As a result, I ...
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How to cold email professors for research positions? [duplicate]
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I am a postdoc at a European country. I am thinking to cold email professors to ask if they have some open paid research position.
Does this work in academia (as I heard it does for industry jobs)...
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What do I write on my CV for doing unpaid research?
I recently graduated from my Master's studies, and while my thesis did not directly result in an article, I am now continuing work with my thesis advisor to bring the work to a publishable state. ...
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Role of a Graduate Student Working with a Professor from another University
I have been collaborating with a professor on a paper for a few months now. This professor was once a faculty member of my undergrad university (and I think he still maintains an affiliation there), ...
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Should I mention a finished manuscript that has not been submitted nor posted on preprint websites in a CV?
I have searched this website and could not find a post that precisely asks my question. I am preparing my CV for a postdoc position in Mathematics. I want to include my research works. Yet, I have ...
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Updating CV for a PhD student
I'm a PhD candidate in EU and am in the process of updating my CV. It currently holds two distinct sections: education and work experience. In the education section, I have listed my degrees and ...
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Should I include my legal name on my CV if my preferred name is not reflected on my diplomas?
I'm trying to decide whether to include my legal name on my CV for academic job applications.
My preferred name is a phonetic spelling of my first initial. For the sake of argument, say my legal name ...
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Listing ongoing grant application on CV
I am planning to apply for a faculty position almost straight out of my PhD. While my CV generally looks very good for my career stage, I have no record of securing external funding. However, I have a ...
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Listing declined invitation to conferences in CV (because of agenda clash)
I am currently in 3rd year of post-doc.
I have presented my work at a reasonable amount of conferences (I think my CV is sufficiently good with this aspect). Yet, while I have been invited to a good ...
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In a CV for an epidemiology PhD application, should you put a summary at the top?
I am applying to PhDs in epidemiology in the US and would like to know the following:
should you put a summary on top of the CV? I see some examples have it and some do not.
if you had teaching ...
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is being mentioned in acknowledgements section of a paper worth putting on a CV? [duplicate]
Recently, there was a paper that asked for both antibacterial and anti-adhesion assays against bacteria. I contributed and performed all these tests but in the end, the other authors decided to omit ...
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When Is It Okay to Leave Mediocre Work Off Of Your CV?
I'm currently a first-year PhD student in a quantitative science. As an undergraduate I performed research with a postdoc which resulted in a co-authored paper on arXiv. To fulfill a requirement to ...
