1 Sep 2008 20:29, Allard Mosk

The “Number of pages” is a piece of information that is more often than not missing. It can be very useful: if you have a lot of short papers on your list, but a few long ones, showing the number of pages can help to make clear you’re not into producing “least publishable units”.

19 Sep 2008 14:30, Otto Muskens

Concerning the invited talk list: there is huge variation between countries and even individual groups wether a professor lets a junior scientist go to invited talks or he himself presents the work. To my opinion this gives a strong bias to the list of invited talks.

How to handle this in your CV? Currently I put all invited talks in which my name was in the abstract even though my boss gave the talk (several times I was even put first author). Is this ok or does it count as CV pollution?

Secondly, I have some skepticism concerning the importance of invited talks since a lot of these are given out of habit to the big shots in the field or out of political/personal reasons by committee members.

23 Sep 2008 14:55, Klaas Wynne

To reply to Otto: yes, I do think that adding invited talks you have not yourself given is CV polution. Big shots get to give talks, and their talk-count is a measure of their big-ness. Nothing wrong with taht type of counting. Of course, you really should be given a chance to give a talk yourself.

18 Jun 2009 7:15, Dov Henis

Journal Impact Factor
= measure of the citations to science and social science journals

JIF is regarded as “the science of rating scientists and their research”

What does JIF have to do with “the science of rating scientists and their research”?

This is another glaring sad example of the prostituting, by the sience establishment guild of the 20th century Technology Culture, of the terms science, scientist and research.

I am asked if I have a better suggestion on how to rate scientists and research.

I do not pretend to have any suggestion on how now to scientifically rate scientists and research.

The present science establishment is, IMO, widely-deeply cancered with the malignant 20th century Technology Culture, of which public rating is one symptom. Tackling only this one single symptom would be a very difficult task.

My most probably hopeless approach is to stir the stagnant water and initiate evolutionary changes that would eventually re-place science, scientists and research where Western culture departed from Enlightenment circa 100 years ago, when it dealt with the essence of nature and life evolutions, and elected to become a pierced-ear slave (Ex.21, 6) to the Technology Culture .

IMO it is vitally important for now charting the course of our society to learn and understand, to analyse and assess, with a scientism perspective, the evolution and collapse of the Technology Culture and the implications, within it, of the bare survival of basic classical science, of the further comprehension of our place and fate in the universe.

Respectfully suggesting,

Dov Henis
(Comments From The 22nd Century)
Updated Life’s Manifest May 2009
http://www.physforum.com/index.php?showtopic=14988&st=495&#entry412704

11 Jun 2010 23:09, MH

Hi,

One question – where would you include correspondence?

Some journals e.g. Nature publish “Letters” as full articles, whereas, correspondence elsewhere varies in terms of quality and regard. Some replies can be very highly cited as well, particularly when these letters point to methodological insights e.g. The forensic dissection of the Duke microarray data first published in Nature Medicine suggesting profound flaws.

8 Aug 2010 21:43, Tony Dean

Always remember that your CV is a passport to getting you a job interview and should be written accordingly. Also note that recruiters will typically only have 2 minutes to quickly scan through your CV, and may have to read through dozens in a day.

In any CV avoid giving a blow-by-blow account of your latest project, its aims, scientific intricacies and results. You can explain these at the interview stage. Keep your CV to a maximum of 2 pages and focus on grabbing the attention of the hiring manager who is reading your resume.

A CV is a marketing tool which should list only those abilities and strengths that are relevant to the job you are applying for. You should adapt and rewrite it to suit each individual job application. Try not to send the same CV to every job you apply for.

More tips when writing a high quality scientific CV:
Firstly always read the job advert and make a detailed list of key skills the recruiter is looking for. Once you have this information then focus on explaining how your knowledge and skills fit the employers requirements. Write your CV with the job description in front of you so you can refer to it.

To show your academic credentials create a section called ‘research interests’ and then use bullet points to list your achievements. Make sure to include only relevant course modules, laboratory experience and course projects. If you are not sure about how to write your CV or what to put in it then visit this CV template page for free resume examples you can use.

Secondly try to target your CV at the job you are applying for. This way you increase your chances of standing out from the crowd. Research the job role, industry and company. Use specific industry related key words and terminology to impress the hiring manager. Employers can be impressed by the fact that you have written something especially for them.

23 Aug 2010 23:46, uk jobs

“Employment History that is irrelevant (A paper round was the worst one I saw).” But the jobs are going away and until we reverse the anti-business climate in California, that’s going to keep happening.

Sadly, people still think that the more experiences they lay down on their CV, the better it is for their profile. Relevancy, that is co-relation between your skills set and the post that you are applying for, is still a huge factor for your successful CV.