Applications and CVs
Career gaps: state them briefly and move on, because silence invites worse guesses
An unexplained gap is filled in by the reader, usually less favourably than the truth.
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Applications and CVs
Applications and CVs
The teaching statement: one concrete example beats three paragraphs of philosophy
Committees read many teaching statements and remember the ones with something specific in them.
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The research statement: a programme with a direction, not a list of projects
Committees are looking for a trajectory they can imagine funding for ten years.
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The international CV: conventions differ by country, and the differences matter
A CV that is standard in one country can look wrong or even inappropriate in another.