Is there a standard curriculum vitae format?
One of the most important things to remember when working on your curriculum vitae is that there is not one standard format. There are different emphases in each discipline, and a good CV is one that emphasizes the points that are considered to be most important in your discipline and conforms to standard conventions within your discipline. So how can you find out what these conventions are? A good place to start is to find as many examples as possible of CV’s by people in your discipline who have recently been on the job market. You can find these by asking other grad students and junior faculty in your department if you can have a look at their CV’s, and you can also make use of the Internet to find CV samples in your discipline. Resources such as The Curriculum Vitae Handbook by Rebecca Anthony and Gerald Roe (Rudi Publishing: Iowa City, 1994) also include sample CV’s for various disciplines. One caveat to remember regarding examples, however, is that they should never be used as mo
