CV question

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[PhillyPsych]

Is he planning on attending the doctoral program that he was admitted too? If that is the case and he has accepted admittance I would add that to his education section, and place the expected date of graduation after it. I would also suggest that he look into the career counseling center at his school if they have one. I know alot of universities offer free career counseling for students and sometimes even alumni, and even just having a professional look over your CV and give you some tips can really make the difference even if its just for some tweaks (I know it did for me at least).
Does he also have an employment or special skill section? If so he could add the Managerial skills that he has there. I hope this helped, and good luck!

 

[cara susanna]

Yeah, I was wondering that, too. Do I list myself as a Masters or PhD student when I start the program?

 

[JockNerd]

I would add that to his education section, and place the expected date of graduation after it

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This is how its done on every grad student CV I've seen. Listing "admitted" might look a little weird.

 

[PhillyPsych]

Yeah, I was wondering that, too. Do I list myself as a Masters or PhD student when I start the program?

I think technically once you have accepted the offer for matriculation that you are considered a doctoral student, though it seems it can be tricky on CV's as it is quite common to have your current GPA listed as well as the degree you will be attaining, so TECHNICALLY you can put down a 4.0 as all students start with that righhhhhhhhht?

 

[cara susanna]

Yeah, but they have to vote you into the program after you finish your thesis, so I'd feel weird putting doctoral student at this point. Yet I was accepted into the PhD program...

I dunno, it's tricky.

 

[PhillyPsych]

I agree it is, I don't have much experience personally at this point either as I was just accepted to a Psy.D. program. My best advice would be to ask a career counselor at your school, and have them look over your CV. Professionals for the win!👍

 

[Ollie123]

Maybe I've just had bad experiences, but college career counselors who know what they're doing seem quite rare. I've never had one who couldn't be replaced with a spell-check and a second read through something. They're a lot like academic advisors...they can often tell you what classes you need to take to graduate, but they're usually not the best person to ask about getting into grad school😉

I'd ask faculty. Whoever his advisor is probably has a vested interest in helping him find a GA position. They've probably hired GAs and know what people have done, and they're the ones who are making decisions...not the career counselors.

For the record, I refer to myself as a Ph.D. student in mine. I don't put expected graduation at this point..its not like undergrad where your graduation requirements are "Take these classes", and the steps for graduation are simple and short of failing classes or some tragedy requiring time off, there's really not much that can get in the way. There's a huge number of things that can delay the process in grad school, so it seems too much like guesswork to list a graduation date, at least to me. I'll probably put an expected date on it when I'm close to done and applying for post-docs, but I'm not comfortable saying "I know I'll be out in x years" until I'm a bit closer when there's the possibility of recruitment problems on a master's or dissertation, IRB delays, not matching for internship, etc. (though the latter is probably not relevant in this case).

I haven't heard anyone say that's a bad thing. If its a school where people don't always continue on it might be different, but we're admitted with the expectation that we will go on to get our doctorate. I'd avoid the word "Doctoral candidate" since I think that's a term that's generally reserved for people who have passed comprehensive exams.

I think of it this way. If someone asks "Are you in a master's program or a doctoral program" what would you say.

 

[FreudianSlip7]

Yeah, but they have to vote you into the program after you finish your thesis, so I'd feel weird putting doctoral student at this point. Yet I was accepted into the PhD program...

I dunno, it's tricky.

I recently had to do this. I was told to put MA/PhD then my field (clinical), name of university, and anticpated graduation year.

As for GPA, it is not a necessity to put it down on a CV, especially if it is not stellar.

 

[cara susanna]

Okay, I finally updated my CV--I put that I'm a doctoral student. Not sure if that helps anyone or not. 😉

 

[hopefulpsych]

I have a few questions about what to put on my CV:

A poster that has my name on it was presented at a conference. I did not attend the conference. Can I list the poster on my CV?

Also, my name is in the article that was published in the conference proceedings. Can I list this on my CV as well?

I don't want to misrepresent myself in any way on my CV but at the same time I would like to have as much as possible on it for my upcoming applications!

Thanks in advance!

 

[cara susanna]

You can list the poster for sure. Dunno about the article.

 

[JockNerd]

Also, my name is in the article that was published in the conference proceedings. Can I list this on my CV as well?

Yes. There's a special format (section 49 in the ref part of the apa style guide). I'd list it under "other publications."

 

[cmuhooligan]

I also have a CV question...I recently had a peer-reviewed article included in an "Annual Review" book on gender. Would it be worth including this in my CV, or would simply having the original work suffice?

 

[Ollie123]

As in - an article was already published, and it was basically just published a second time word-for-word as a book chapter?

If its the exact same thing, I wouldn't list it twice. I'd maybe list the inclusion in the annual review as an "award"? Or put an asterisk after the article with a note that it was published elsewhere too? That's quite the honor, so it would be a shame if it wasn't included somewhere - congratulations!

 

[cmuhooligan]

As in - an article was already published, and it was basically just published a second time word-for-word as a book chapter?

If its the exact same thing, I wouldn't list it twice. I'd maybe list the inclusion in the annual review as an "award"? Or put an asterisk after the article with a note that it was published elsewhere too? That's quite the honor, so it would be a shame if it wasn't included somewhere - congratulations!

Thanks! I was kind of surprised, because I was never alerted to its inclusion until someone pointed it out to me (I'm guessing the author of the book just needed to gain permission from the journal the article was published in--not me). But yes, it looks like it will be published word for word in this book.