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كیمديريت اطالعات علمی و منابع الكترونيدومجلسه

1397تیرماه

Workshop on Writing Effective

CURRICULUM VITAE

Hassan BashiriHamedan University of Technology

Jul 2018

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Outline

Definition of Resume and CV

Resume vs. CV

Cover Letter

Parts of Cover Letter

Types of CV

The Anatomy of CV

Tips and Pitfalls to Avoid

Reviewing Samples

Questions

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What is a Résumé?

The French word resume means “a summing up.”

It is a concise, written summary of your work experience,

education, accomplishments, and personal background

Self marketing tool to highlight your uniqueness

Personal Ad

Job skills showcase

“Value Added” to future employer

Usually 1 or 2 pages length

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What is a Résumé?

Positive profile of your personal, educational

and experiential qualifications for employment or

admission.

It cannot get you a job

A good resume can help you get an interview.

A good interview gets you the job offer

The rest is up to you.

It is a written representation of you!

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What is a Curriculum Vita?

Comprehensive biographical statement

Not limited to 2 pages like resume

Emphasizes teaching and research activities

Should address faculty roles such as teaching,

research, service, professional associations and

presentations

Publication is prominent section

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How is a Curriculum Vita used?

Often used in the field of higher education and

concentrates on academic pursuits

Used when applying for grants, fellowships,

scholarships and/or other academic awards

Competitive academic admission

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Resume vs. CV

Resume:

From French «to

summarize»

Focus on job skills

1-2 pages long

Used to apply for a job in a

business world.

You can scan it by 10 – 30

second

CV (Curriculum Vitae):

From Latin «the course of

[one’s] life»;

Not held to any particular

length;

Used for academic activities,

certain professions (Ph.D)

Includes papers published,

memberships, etc.

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What is a Cover Letter?

To cover your resume.

To introduce yourself along with your attached resume to a prospective employer.

To obtain an interview appointment or application.

Creates a desire for employer to read your resume and urges employer to talk with you.

Informs employer of your communication skills.

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2 Types of Cover Letters

Letter of application

– Targets identified positions

Letter of inquiry or interest

– Not directed at any specific job vacancy.

– Directed at a school district or school.

Writing and effective CL has some guidelines like

resume, we are not going to discuss in detail

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Types of CV

Chronological

– Reverse Chronological

Functional– SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• An accomplishment that directly relates to the objective.

• A quality or characteristic of yours that supports this goal.

• Number of years of experience.

• Another accomplishment or characteristic.

Combination

Electronic

e.g www.irantalent.com

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How do I get started?

Be familiar with the comprehensive anatomy of CV

Think about categories of the resume or CV

Customize your resume for the job you are applying

Brainstorm what you might want to include

– Professional, Vocational, Research Objective

– Research Experience and Research Skills

– Qualifications, Laboratory Experience

– Publications and Presentations

– Computer and Technical Skills, …

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The Anatomy of CV

Heading or Personal

InformationObjective

Education

Experience

Teaching

Research

Professional

Publications

Honors &

Awards

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The Anatomy of CV (Cont.)

Special Skills &

Training

ProfessionalMemberships

Presentations &

Invited TalksResearch

Interests

ReferencesActivities &

Hobbies

Student

Advisement

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Name (Usually Bold in Title)

Address – If you have a permanent and local, put both.

Phone number – it’s okay to use your cell phone number.

Email Address – be careful of trendy email address names such as hotstuff@hotmail.com. Using of academic email address is suggested.

Website address

Not add military service status, weight, height, …

Heading and Personal Information

Personal Information: Example

Mohammad Mahdian90 WoodAvenue, Apartment #23

TeacherHill, MA 01832

978-212-64447

e-mail: mahdian@cc.mit.edu

First Name: HASSAN

Last Name: BASHIRI

Work Address: Lecturer of Computer

Engineering Department, Bu-Ali Sina

University, Shahid Fahmideh Avenue,

Hamedan, Iran

Phone:

Home Page: profs.hut.ac.ir/~bashiri

E-mail: bashiri@hut.ac.ir

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Tells the employer:

– what kind of work you are interested in,

– what you are hoping to do

Be specific about the job you want.

– To obtain an entry-level position within a financial institution requiring strong

analytical and organizational skills.

– To engage in advanced research and teaching programs of a top ranking

university

– To work in a Student Assistant position in Info Technology Services.

– To become Marketing Assistant in a public relations firm

– A research position, preferably in the area of Politics and International

Relationships

To obtain, To acquire, To utilize, To design, To Become, A position

Objective

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Research Interest

Categorize and specify your research interest

Area of research should have enough coverage

Don’t expand it so much

Example:

– Information Retrieval

• IR Models and Ranking

• Matrix Processing (SVD, SDD, LSI, PCA)

• Search Engines

• Question Answering Systems

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Education

Describe your academic accomplishments:

– Degree you expect to earn, university, and expected date of

grad, Institution name and department

– Overall or Major GPA

– Related course work (if it is reflective of a specialization or is particularly

relevant to the position you are pursuing)

List institutions attended in reverse chronological order.

DO NOT INCLUDE HIGH SCHOOL.

List GPA if 3.0 or better, can be in major or overall

Thesis Information (if relevant to the job)

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Education: Example

M.Sc. (2001-2004): Software Engineering Student, Department of

Electronic and Computer Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran,

Iran.

– CGPA:17.22 out of 20

– Dissertation

• Title: Implementation and Evaluation of Latent Semantic Indexing Model for Persian

Text Retrieval

• Grade: 20 out of 20

B.Sc. (1997-2001): Computer Engineering Student, Isfahan University,

Isfahan, Iran.

– CGPA:16.68 out of 20

– Dissertation

• Title: Analysis and Design of an Instance System with UML in RUP Software Process

• Grade: 19 out of 20

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Education: Example

Postdoc in Computer Science, Carleton University, 2009-2011.

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 2003-2008.

M.Sc. in Software Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1998-2000.

B.Sc. in Software Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1994-1998.

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Awards and Honors

Combinational is a good method (Chronological and

Functional)

2005

– Champion of the 3rd American Open RoboCup Competitions

(USOpen05), Jul 2005, Atlanta, USA.

– 5th Place of RoboCup WorldCup 2005 Competitions, May 2005,

OSAKA, Japan

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– 2nd Place of the 3rd Iranian Open Robotics Competitions, May 2005,

Tehran, Iran.

– Award of doing effective efforts in ICT Incubator Center of Bu-Ali

Sina University as Assistant Director of Center, given by: Vice President

of Research and Technology of Bu-Ali Sina University

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Experience

List work history in reverse chronological order.

Begin descriptive statements with an action verb.

– conducted, managed, supervised, determined, implemented, developed, Improved, documented

DO NOT INCLUDE reasons for leaving, past salaries, complete

address or phone number for employer, or past supervisor’s name.

Internships and non-paid employment can be listed in this section.

It is not necessary to note if they were unpaid.

In CV it is better to classify in:

– Research Experience

– Teaching Experience

– Professional Experience

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Experience: Example

Research Experience

– Head of Persian Information Retrieval Research Group at the Department of Computer Engineering, Bu-Ali Sina University (2003-Present), List of achievements:

• Design and Implementation of an Automatic Indexer for Persian Text

• Design and Implementation of New Crawling Method named Regional Crawler

Teaching Experience

– Lecturer of Modern Information Retrieval, Department of Computer Engineering, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004

Professional Experience

– Project Manager and Analyst of Xagross e-Commerce Project, Xagross Company, Hamedan, 2003-2004, www.xagross-IT.com

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Publications

Categorize them

– Book, Conference Paper, Journal Paper, Technical Paper, …

– Subjective

– Reverse Chronological

Publications: Example

Information Retrieval

– H. Bashiri, F. Oroumchian, Assessment of Query Expansion based

on Rocchio Approach in Persian Information Retrieval, 3rd Iranian

Journal of Information and Science, September, 2006 (in English)

– H. Bashiri, F. Karbalaie, S. Mousavi, Design and Evaluation of

Automatic Farsi Indexer for Persian Text, In Proceedings of 11th

International CSI Computer Conference Tehran, Iran, January 2006, (in

Persian)

RoboCup (Intelligent System)

– H. Bashiri, M. Rafaei, RoboSina2006 Team Description, In

Proceedings of the 10th International RoboCup Symposium

(RoboCup’06), Beremn, Germany, July 2006 (in English)

– H. Zarrabi-Zadeh, H. Bashiri, RoboSina2005 Team Description, In

Proceedings of the 9th International RoboCup Symposium

(RoboCup’05), OSAKA, Japan, July 2005 (in English)

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Skills

List your related skills

Computer and Language skills are usually required

– Computer:

• Microsoft office (Good)

• Internet and Search (Expert)

• SPSS (Expert)

– English Language:

• Reading, Listening (Good)

• Speaking (Fluent)

• Writing (Expert)

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Membership

Member of American Mathematical Society, 2004-present.

Member of Computer Society of Iran (CSI), 2001-

present.Member of Meshkat Cultural Association, 1997-

present.

Member of Student Council, Department of Computer

Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 1998-1999.

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Student Advisement

List thesis or research you have advised

Example:

– A. H. Jadidinejad, Design and Evaluation of Fuzzy

Clustering Method in Persian Information Retrieval,

Department of Computer Engineering, Bu-Ali Sina

University, In Process, (in Persian)

– A. Rezvanian, SABA Crawler: Focused on Persian Web

Characterization, Department of Computer Engineering,

Bu-Ali Sina University, September 2006, (In Persian)

– M. Shokouhi, Regional Crawler, A New Method to Crawling

the Web, Department of Computer Engineering, Bu-Ali

Sina University, March 2004, (in English)

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References

Available upon request.

Dr. Farhad Oroumchian

Associate Professor

Wollongong University

Dubai Branch

oroumchian@acm.org

Dr. Tom Hayden

Dept. of Communication

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, HI 96822

(808) 956-2222

hayden@hotmail.com

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Tips and Pitfalls to Avoid

Avoid tables, paragraph borders, columns, and fancy fonts.

Avoid trying to indent or center text using the spacebar. Keep all

lines left justified against the page, and use line breaks to separate

headings and sections.

Make sure all dates are correct. Be prepared to explain any gaps.

List your education and experience in reverse chronological order –

from the most current back.

Use key words and action words.

– Key words are words used in “professional jargon”.

Use quantifiable numbers.

– Wrong: “Helped increase sales substantially while in position”.

– Right: “Increased sales by 35% in nine months”.

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Tips and Pitfalls to Avoid (Cont.)

Check & double check for content flow, grammar,

punctuation, redundancy, and spelling

Have a top, bottom, left and right margin

Print on quality white or off-white paper

Have your CV and resume reviewed by expert people

– Seek others’ opinions

– Proofread– then have someone else proofread

Keep length right (resume: 1 or 2 pages, CV has more)

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Always:

Be relevant. Stay focused on specifics that relate to the job for which you are

applying.

Be positive. Emphasize your strengths, accomplishments (not just

responsibilities), and experience.

Be accurate. DO NOT exaggerate or mislead.

Be factual

Be neat. Go for eye appeal. Not too fancy, no colored paper.

Be brief: Don’t be general

Scanned in 10 seconds – make sure important information stands out

Be organized: Create section by section so it’s not overwhelming

Write long on first draft – edit later

Focus on accomplishments, not routine duties

Don’t use without proofreading

Don’t let someone else write it for you

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Common Resume and CV Mistakes

Including a heading such as "Résumé" or "Curriculum Vitae":

not necessary

Including irrelevant information: personal details (age), high

school etc.

Format/Style: lack of white space, too narrow margins, loud

gimmicky paper or font use.

Ordering of information: not in reverse chronological order.

Excluding information such as phone or email: include

on résumé

Attention to detail: spelling mistakes, grammar and use of

consistent tense.

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Take a look to some samples …..