Product Description

The curriculum vitae, a resume of educational and work background, is essential for undergraduates applying to graduate and professional schools. Now revised and updated, How to Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae helps readers to analyze their academic career and create the best "academic resume" possible.

Features:

• A new chapter on crafting international CVs
• Sample CVs, including scannable and international
• Extensive appendix material with a comprehensive list of action verbs and a bibliography of style books and manuals

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #271119 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780071390446
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From the Back Cover
You've received your bachelor's degree and after careful consideration have decided to continue your education at graduate or professional school. When you get your application, however, you are stymied by the requirement to send a curriculum vitae. You've heard of it, but you thought only hopeful college professors had to have one. And you certainly have no idea how to go about writing one for yourself. You are not alone. Many applicants are surprised to find that what used to be required of academic job seekers is now essential for undergraduates applying to graduate and professional schools as well as those seeking employment in research, teaching, or management.

How to Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae provides an in-depth explanation of the components of the curriculum vitae as well as step-by-step instructions for condensing your career history into a concise biographical sketch that underscores your assets. You'll learn to assess your educational and noneducational skills, inventory your accomplishments, and present the information in a format that follows the latest document guidelines. In addition, this newly revised edition includes:

• Tips on producing a scannable CV
• A new chapter on international CVs
• Sample CVs for a wide range of academic majors and professions
• Sample correspondence that gives you content and format guidance

With its targeted advice and easy-to-follow plan, How to Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae offers everything you need to know to create a CV that will produce results and advance your academic or professional career.

About the Author

Acy Jackson is the president of Acy L. Jackson & Associates, providing career, interpersonal, and intercultural consultation services for private-sector employers and educational institutions.

Kathleen Geckeis is the manager of the Writing Center at Owens Community College.

Customer Reviews

Useful tool
This book was a very useful tool for preparing my CV. It helped guide me through the process of reviewing my experience and skills so that I was able to create a CV that really describes my character and I feel will make me stand out. Well worth the price of the book!

Go deeper than a Resume
This is an excellent for those like me who are seeking to heighten the awareness of employers particularly in education. As a doctoral student seeking to teach at the college level, this text is second to none. Moreover, it helps one to dig deeper into describing their passion like no resume could ever do. The authors appear to make plain the process of writing a vitae with some examples. Although I would have liked examples more closely related to education, it is a text that is well worth the read and I plan to put it to good use.

Curriculum Vitae
Excellent product!
Easy to understand and very informative.
My only suggestion would be to create new editions more quickly,
to keep up with current trends in writing CV's.