Little ego boosts.

[rivka]

I updated my curriculum vitae today, because some people we work with need to include it in a grant they're sending out.

I remember, when I was in graduate school, paging through the CVs of people applying for Assistant Professor positions and worrying that I'd never make the cut. They had so much professional activity! They looked so imposing!

Now the most basic and pared-down version of my CV (no description of research interests, no section on departmental service) is four pages long. I have eleven publications - ten journal articles and a book chapter. I have fourteen presentations at academic conferences listed. (I've done more than that, but I drop presentations off my CV when I've published the exact same material as an article, and I don't list ones for which I'm not the first author unless they're extremely important presentations.)

I have, in short, something that looks exactly like a real grownup's CV. An early-career grownup, sure, but still.

Weird.

Update: My boss just gave me her CV to fax out as well. It's thirty-six pages long. Okay, that puts things in perspective.

Comments

[fairoriana.livejournal.com]

Go grownup you!

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Congratulations dear. I bet yours will exceed 36 pages before too many more years have passed.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't think I have the personality, or the hardline devotion to academia, to amass a 36-page vitae. Which is perfectly fine with me.

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I bet that if you included the papers where you weren't the lead author, and the presentations that were later published elsewhere, and all that other stuff, that you'd be well on your way to thirty-six-page-ed-ness.

All a long CV takes is time, verbosity - and, if necessary, a slightly larger font size. :-)

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's a lot of articles. :-)

-J

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I haven't put together a CV in over a decade, and I shudder to think about how long it would be...even with only the items I can remember on it.

I figure my website is my CV.

B

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

That sounds like an admirable grown-up publication list and CV.

When I was a PhD student, one of the jobs I had in the research group was to be in charge of updating our supervisor's CV. So I knew that the year he turned 40 he had 100 journal articles.

Now I know that he wasn't typical.

[scherazade.livejournal.com]

I so get you on that feeling. I used to think like that too when I saw people's cvs before.

Congrats on arriving! *beams*

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

Go you for being grownup!

And, unless it really *is* expected, a 30-page CV sounds just conceited to me.

I know someone who is dealing with CVs (in regard to professorships at a major German University) who would raise eyebrows at being sent that many pages.

Outside America the rule seems to be that you put on _current_ and _important_ stuff on your CV. If you are a recent graduate, a four-week voluntary assignment would be on. Once you've held four good jobs, it might still get a mention if it was in a really important place; once you're established or changed career paths; it would get dropped off. The same with the articles. (That's what a bibliography is for) - the CV might mention a few current if relevant; and then there would be a line saying 'also published thirty articles in peer-reviewed journals') with reference to said bibliography (if demanded, as it would in academia) or not.

You could probably fill thirty-six pages, if you really wanted to. It won't get you a job more easily, I should think.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

When you submit a federal grant in the U.S., you're limited to a four-page "biosketch," no matter how important you are. It encourages you to choose your relevant publications only.

I don't think we ever produce a separate bibliography.