How to Write a Curriculum Vitae

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Laura Turner and today we're going to talk about how to write a curriculum vitae or a CV. A curriculum vitae is a lot like a resume but it contains all of your experience as opposed to just your selected experience. So if you have done a lot of jobs and you're looking to get, a just really high profile job, you might ought to give them your CV. What you're first going to do is you're going to form, like a resume. But sometimes, and this is where it gets a little tricky, CV's can be formatted in whatever way you wish. You just should keep it pretty much like a resume. You should just keep it sort of consistent throughout. Some people like to write down a little biography of themselves. What is your specialty. What have you done that is most impressive, and place that on the front. The example that I have today is just sort of a standard academic CV, which illustrates my sort of teaching stuff in the beginning, and your education in the front here. So, if we look at it first we have your name, your address and all other pertinent information. And then, you're going to list your education in sort of a descending order from most current to farthest in the past. On your CV you do not necessarily have to list your high school education but if you'd like to do that as well. It just depends on you know, what you need for the job you're applying for. Also when you're writing your CV think about what you are submitting it for. If you are submitting it like this one, for a teaching job, or an academic position you're going to put all of your teaching experience first and sort of format it that way, and then as we go through we'll see in bullets we have other relevant experience that is impressive. And even experience that is maybe not even necessarily that impressive but also just experience on top of experience to show that you have the most experience possible. Then you're going to want to list your honors and your affiliations to give the people looking at your CV an idea of how accomplished you are in your field. And then toward the end you'll want to just give any other jobs that you've had that seem relevant. Or even like I said before, not relevant but jobs that show your ability to you know, hold a job and do it well. And also what you're going to want to do in the case of this CV, if we go back to the second page here. You're going to want to write down what you did but you're also going to want to write down the details of what you accomplished in this project. So just for example here, I was a script writer, for the, script reader sorry for the Nevada State Screen Writing Competition and in a bullet I described what I did for that particular job. Okay, so it's like a resume but much, much, much more detailed, and you can do it in any way you'd like and hopefully you'll be able to get it all together."