Please respect the privacy of those people who were kind enough to allow me to post their Resumes and/or Curriculum Vitae (CVs). If you have any questions about writing a resume then e-mail me or check-out your Career Counseling Center. To capture the format and overall asthetics of these samples, they were scanned in as pictures. I have done as much as possible to decrease the size without compromising resolution.

I am often asked "what is the difference between a CV and a resume?" A quick,but accurate answer is that a resume describes your skills while a CV lists your accomplishments. Some other points to note are that your resume is never complete. It must be adapted for almost every job that you apply for. Avoid the mass mailing look that a very general objective and irrelevant content can give. For your first draft, you should write down all your skills and accomplishments. Make sure to catch all the details. Then start cutting and saving under different names such as Resume1, Resume2.... Same with cover letters and CVs. For the resumes examples which follow try to pick out those which are targeting a job and those that are general. Note that these people have a number of different resumes for different job descriptions.

Suggestions for improvement to this web site are welcome!

A Common Error in your resume. This is a before and after that actually occured. Notice the differences!

Here is the resume of a theorist who got a job maintaining a supercomputer facility. Armen got his first job on his first try with this resume! For all you TA's pay particular attention to Armen's description of his teaching responsibilites on page 2.

Armen's Resume : page 1

Armen's Resume : page 2

Here is Dan Flatin's HTML Resume which looks exactly like his printed resume. How did you do that Dan?

Dr. Wilkins has writen an outline on how to write a CV. While that ouline is available on this page, some of his other "One Pagers" may be of intrest to you.

The folowing links actually connect you to the OSU Physics Directory where (I hope) the students and Post-Docs have put their resumes. A goal is to improve this in the future.

Post-Doc Resumes

Graduate Resumes

Undergraduate Resumes