FemaleScienceProfessor

The results of the Fake-CV Contest are in. I think we should call it a tie between Fake CV #2 (A. Lex) and #4 (Magical Robot Unicorn), wi...

It is indeed time to vote for your "favorite" CV (you can of course define "favorite" however you want: most entertain...

We are almost ready for the vote on your favorite Fake CV, but I just wanted to check and see if any major CV-issues have remained unexplo...

Another cautionary tale, writ in a CV: DEE S. PERATE Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-present PhD., 2008, Femtoscience, Genius Institute of ...

This (partial?) CV contains at least two possibly-puzzling elements one may encounter in publication lists. Depending on the (sub)field, th...

OK, this one may be a bit off-putting at first, but if you read beyond the name, there are some informative aspects of it. The author of th...

This is a very interesting fake CV, in part because of the reasons why it was created. Says the author: I decided to .. make the CV of t...

This one is from EuropeanFemaleScienceProfessor. Apparently most of it is based on a real CV, with the exception of the duck thing. Note ...

Here's another one. If the author wants to claim authorship in a comment, they are of course welcome to do so. I should have mentioned ...

Here is the first example submitted for the Fake CV Attempt-At-Academic-Humor thing. I typically try to come up with names for the title (s...

Imagine this general scenario: You are at (or about to go to) a conference or workshop or similar, and one of the organizers tells you that ...

A reader is troubled by the increasing use of impersonal online application systems for faculty positions, and finds the process disappointi...

Last week in The Chronicle of Higher Education , there was an advice column that provided a how-to guide to writing a cover letter for appli...

From the comments to yesterday's post: ISI/Web of Science (WoS) is " better than Google Scholar by an order of magnitude ." ...

Is your citation record in Web of Science (or the moral equivalent) perfectly correct? Or are there errors? If there are errors, are they in...

This year I somehow I ended up on four (4) committees that review Other Faculty and their research ideas, accomplishments, and/or productivi...

As I've mentioned before, owing to my being on various committees within and beyond the university, and to my being sent promotion/tenur...

For various reasons related to my serving on an insane number of committees that review an insane number of CVs from faculty in many differe...

Based on the comments to yesterday's post, I have decided to revise the Invited Talks part of my CV as follows: Selected Talks (2006-pr...

Today: A CV question On CVs , it is common to include a list of invited talks given at other universities, research labs, professional organ...