I was definitely told to take anything not related to my field off my CV even other research experiences. Any part time jobs I held or leadership positions I was told to remove as well.
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Grrr this makes me really angry! If you can share this - was it careers advice workers at your university or senior academics/ supervisors or the job advertisers/recruiters saying this? The gall of telling ECR to omit part-time jobs & leadership roles from their CV!
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Basically they told me my cv was too long and that stuff was irrelevant. If I added back part time jobs and non micro related research I’d have a solid extra 2-3 pages. I held 2 jobs at all times in undergrad.
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1/ There's a lot here to unpack and thanks for sharing! First, yes, CVs should be brief, but there are ways to list non-academic roles without cutting altogether. E.g. Under management section with role only, or listing a selection & then pointing to a website for more detail.
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Agreed. A great thing to think about - should you list “non-academic” experience? How to show its positive impact? And then how to shift culture to be inclusive,understanding and appreciative if some are programmed otherwise?
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Sorry - don’t mean to talk over you
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Absolutely a great discussion! I might start a thread with some advice for how to represent non-academic work - please chime in if you are interested. It really irritates me that academia is all cloaks and daggers about what we tell students about their careers!
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We have our open faculty meeting to discuss applicants tomorrow. I’m going to be thinking about this!
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Ah great! If it's fresh on your mind and you can share reflections, it would be great to have some general observations about whether applicants reflect these types of non-academic experiences & how they were received. If you can tell us, please do share!
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Will do - without giving up confidentiality of the meeting of course!
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Great! Yes, whatever is not confidential would be useful to this discussion.
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