UF-SACNAS

CV Workshop

Emilio M. Bruna

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation & Center for Latin American Studies

Updated: September 30, 2026

WELCOME

TOPIC TIME
Workshop overview 5 min
What is a CV (for)? 5 min
Content / Categories 10 min
Aesthetics 10 min
MS Word? LaTeX? Rmd/Quarto? 5 min
BREAK & GET IN GROUPS 10 min
Let’s get to work 45min

 

These slides are available here: https://brunalab.github.io/cv_workshop

What is a CV and what is it for?

What do others need from your CV ?

  1. Who are you?

  2. How can we contact you?

  3. What have you done?

What do you need from your CV ?

To stand out from the crowd…

How do you do that?

Content, Organization, Creativity…

…and know your audience.

  • Name & contact info

  • Educational background

  • Awards, scholarships, fellowships

  • Grants

  • Publications

  • Teaching Experience

  • Extension / Outreach Activities

  • Presentations

  • Professional service

  • Relevant professional memberships

  • Professional Development/Training

  • Other Stuff

What goes in each category?

  • Name & contact info

    • webpage, google scholar, github?
    • Citizenship or immigration status?

  • Educational background

    • Advisors? Thesis titles?

  • Awards, scholarships, fellowships

  • Grants

  • Publications

    • Peer-reviewed, non-peer-reviewed, technical reports, theses

  • Teaching Experience

    • TA, Guest Lectures, Environmental Ed.

  • Extension / Outreach Activities

  • Presentations

    • Invited vs. submitted, posters

  • Professional service

  • Relevant professional memberships

  • Professional Development/Training

  • Other Stuff

What is ‘Other Stuff’?

Technical Skills
Language Skills
Presentations
‘Named’ Scholarships & Fellowships
Certifications & Licenses
Foreign Study
International Experience
Programming Skills
Reviewer for Journals
Editorial Boards
Exhibits
Organizing events (e.g., this workshop)

Areas of Expertise
Internships
Academic Interests
Administrative Experience
Supervisory Experience
Consulting Experience
Advising
Outreach
Advisory Committees
Guest Lectures in Courses
Patents

The categories, and what you include in each, changes over time.

CV aesthetics

  • CLEAR

    • Well-organized, readable, visually appealing, error free
    • name & number all pages

  • CONCISE

    • Don’t pad, avoid lengthy entries

  • COMPLETE

    • Everything relevant to your audience

  • CONSISTENT

    • Styles, fonts, formats, chronological order

  • CURRENT

    • dates, update regularly immediately

Let’s see some examples.

Resources & Tutorials

MS Word

vitae package
github.com/mitchelloharawild/vitae

Stephen V. Miller’s CV Template
svmiller.com/blog/2016/03/svm-r-markdown-cv

Nick Strayer’s DataDriven CV
https://nickstrayer.me/datadrivencv/

Tutorial by UA CCT Data Science’s Kristina Riemer: Video & Slides

Tutorial by Dr. Shazia Ruybal Pesántez
github.com/shaziaruybal/automate-cv-rmd

EMB: old School .Rmd + LaTeX = .pdf

.Rmd of CV Template is at: github.com/BrunaLab/cv_template

EMB: old School .Rmd + LaTeX = .pdf

.Rmd of CV Template is at: github.com/BrunaLab/cv_template

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