Help!
My pharmacist is asking me for my CV! I don't even know what it looks like. Some of the ones that I goggled and looked up are several pages long and doesn't pertain to a pre-pharmacy student.
My science professor wants a resume..? Is this like a work resume? I didn't want to sound stupid and ask him before I try to find out for myself.
Can someone please give me some direction or advice on what a CV and resume is suppose to look like? Are there samples that I should look at online somewhere or book I can find? I'm soooooo lost! 😕
I think the pharmacist meant a resume. It's just too common for young pharmacists, or those who are in a more clinical setting to think in terms of CVs and forget that there is such a word as resume. I didn't have a resume, just a CV from my third year of pharmacy school until I was applying for my second job out of school... didn't even think of them.
🙂 (S)He just wants to know more about you and have a handy reference. Resume/CV and letter of intent are standard things to supply your LOR-writers with.
CVs are very detailed accounts of academic and professional credentials, and generally are not used outside academia, other than by certain professions for certain positions. In addition, for a typical applicant CV would not look that much different from a resume, simply because you don't have presentations, speeches, publications, etc. worth mentioning, and your life experiences do not need to be detailed on ten pages.
While all pharmacy students write a CV at some point in their last two years, it's highly unusual to see an applicant with a CV. A resume is perfectly fine. What it should include is
- your education up to this point (high school & GPA, especially if you are not close to completing your bachelor's degree; past and current colleges/universities with GPAs and majors; whether you choose to include relevant coursework is up to you, depends on how much space you have left)
- your work experience (and no, don't include McDonald's summer job from 16 years old, etc. - just most recent, most important jobs, and those you feel contributed to your personal and professional development and would help make you a better pharmacist - from this point, McDonald's provides valuable direct customer service experience).
- your main volunteering activities, if any
- your awards (include scholarships, medals, honors, etc.)
- special skills (foreign languages, etc.) - back in my days of writing my first resume, I put typing speed there, but I think it is irrelevant now
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Whether you include an objective and/or skills summary - it's up to you. I never did, and I alwasy gained interviews wherether I submitted them...\
Also, the restriction for 1 page is not really true, at least, not anymore. For most people it is simply not possible. For a student with limited work experience (ie traditional student) it is better to keep it to one page, though, at most 1.5.
