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Start with your CV/Resume
Mitzi Norris, PhD Office of Institutional Academic Affairs
University of Mississippi Medical Center
• Context• Cosmetics• Content
CV/Resume
• What is a CV?• Curriculum vitae• Resume• Vita
Context
• What is the difference between a CV and a resume?• CV is usually longer• CV for academic position
Context
• What does a CV/resume do?• Paints a word picture• Describes who you are• Documents your accomplishments• Helps you get an interview/position
Context
“It is what it is.”
Context
• Must be ACCURATE• Paper trail• Possible dismissal from program• Misrepresentation• Publications – cite accurately
Context
• ERAS • Dean letter writer• Reference letter writers• Interviewer• External rotations
Who Needs a Copy?
• Context• Cosmetics• Content
CV/Resume
• 1-2 pages • Balanced page – text and white space• Quality paper
• White, gray, or ivory• 20-24 pound paper
Cosmetics
• Margins• 1 – 1 ½ “• 1 ½” at the top (?)• 1” at the bottom
• Parallel• Word type (verb, adverb, noun)• Style
• Font• Underline/Italics/Bold/All caps
Cosmetics
• Font• Size: 11-12• Style: Serif (Times New Roman) or San serif (Arial)
• No more than two styles• Can use san serif for headings• Serif is described as easier to read• Don’t use crazy font
Cosmetics
• Organization• Underline/Italics/Bold/All caps
• Use bold or all caps sparingly – look at overall design
• Don’t use ALL!!• If more than one page include header or footer• Page numbers if needed (>2 pages)
• Emphasis • Use sparingly
Cosmetics
Cosmetics - Density
DensityLine Spacing
• Don’t use “Resume” or “Curriculum Vitae”• Can section off contact information with a
horizontal line• Can use columns• Bullets – To use or not to use
Cosmetics
• Context• Cosmetics• Content
CV/Resume
• Contact • Education (exclude high school)• License/Certification• Honors/Awards• Work Experiences• Activities• Other information
Content
• Contact information • Name – resolve any discrepancies
• Documents in maiden name• Use middle name
• Address – current and permanent• Phone – professional
• Appropriate message on voice mail
• Email - professional
Content
• Education (most recent first)• School (college and med school)• Location• Date of graduation (anticipated)• Degree
• Can include majors, minors, concentrations
• Academic distinction• Summa cum laude, magna cum laude
Content
• License/Certification• USMLE• BLS, CPR (give expiration date)• EMT, RN (give expiration date)
Institute for Healthcare Improvement http://app.ihi.org/lms/onlinelearning.aspx
Teaching in Medical Education: Residents as Teachers http://www.umc.edu/Education/Academic_Affairs/Academic_Counseling/Teaching_in_Medical_Education/Teaching_in_Medical_Education_Home.aspx
Content
• Honors/Awards• Academic awards• Scholarships• Honor organizations• Special Schools (Honors College)• Community service awards
• Eagle Scout
Content
• Work Experience• List dates
• Must account for time
• Types of work to include• Full time• Medically related• Volunteer experiences
• Use action verbs• MAKE AN IMPACT
Content
• Distinguish yourself• What you have done/not what you will do
• Describe skills• Document success
• Measurable results• Add depth• Avoid understatement
Action Verbs/Narrative
• Assisted with children reading groups
• Coordinated reading groups at a local child care center. Supervised six volunteers and developed weekly schedule.
Action Verbs
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/543/02/
• OWL categories of action verbs• Communication skills• Creative skills• Data/Financial skills• Helping skills• Management/Leadership skills• Efficiency skills• Technical skills
Action Verbs
• Activities• Include memberships in organizations• List leadership positions• Describe using action verbs
Content
• Work with homeless shelter.
• Developed an organization that provides assistance to area homeless shelters by organizing food and coat drives at least annually. Organized an annual holiday football game to raise money for the homeless shelter. The group has been in existence for 3 years and has raised $12,000.
Action Verbs
• Other information• Publications
• Include thesis• Cite accurately• Cite appropriately – APA or other format• Types of citations
• “In press” – list acceptance date• “Submitted” – list submission date
• Take copy of published articles or acceptance letters
Content
• Other information• Research
• List title, hypothesis, time period, mentors• “Manuscript in progress”• Take confirming documents to interview
• Significant presentations• Take copy of published abstract or meeting
program
Content
• Other information• Military Experience• Language proficiency
• Be prepared to converse
• Outside Interests• Choose wording
• Outdoors vs hunting• Political organization vs Democratic Party
• Make sure you have recently participated• Read a book• Been in a race
Content
• Add headings if you have significant information• Leadership• Scholarship (separate from “Awards”)
Content
• Check spelling• Print and read• Have someone knowledgeable read
• Copy edit• Familiar with your achievements
• Keep updated
• Start NOW!
Check!
• Emphasize strengths• Clear • Concise• Accurate• Use action words
Final Thoughts
• Document your accomplishments• Give the reviewer some insight into your
personal attributes • Provide the interviewer something to ask
about
A good CV/resume will…
Chambler, AFW, Chapman-Sheath, PJ, Pearse, MF. A model curriculum vitae: what are the trainers looking for? Hospital Medicine, 1998 April; 59(4): 324-326.
Emory University School of Medicine http://medicine.emory.edu/research/documents/Action%20Verbs.pdf
Iserson, K.V. (2006) Iserson’s getting into a residency: A guide for medical students (7th Ed.) Galen Press, LTD: Tucson, Arizona.
Patel, MV, Pradhan, BB, Meals, RA. Misrepresentation of research publications among orthopedic surgery fellowship applicants. Spine (Phila Pa 1976), 2003 Apr 1; 28(7):631-6.
Purdue Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/641/01/
Wordpress http://contemporesume.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/is-your-resume-sabotaging-your-job-search/
References
Questions?
mnorris@umc.edu