Keynote Speakers

Event: All about CVs — Talk & CV Clinic

TALK: “All about CVs: what it is used for in the job market, promotion, and tenure process.” (Open to all faculty levels, post-doc, PhDs)

A well-crafted CV is a critical tool for success in the economics job market, as well as for promotion and tenure reviews. In this session, Erin Krupka (ESA Mentoring Director) and two academic HR Professionals from The University of Michigan School of Information, Bailey Oland and Brian Schmidt, will discuss what makes an effective CV, how it is evaluated by hiring committees, promotion panels, and funding bodies, and the common pitfalls to avoid. We will explore how to present your full professional trajectory with precision and clarity, how to tailor your CV for specific purposes without losing its core integrity, and the differences between CVs for early-career and senior economists. Erin, Bailey and Brian, who regularly prepare and handle CVs for the Provost’s office, will share their advice and address questions from both a faculty and HR perspective.

Following the talk, later in the conference, we will host two CV Clinics, where participants can receive one-on-one feedback on their CVs from both senior faculty and HR professionals. This is an opportunity to get constructive, targeted advice to help you make your CV as strong as possible! If would like to participate in the CV Clinic, please sign up below:

Call for Participants for:

1. Junior CV Clinic (open only to untenured faculty, post-docs, PhD students)
2. Administrative CV Clinic (open to all faculty considering a transition to administrative roles).

As part of our “All about CVs” sessions at the conference, we are offering personalized feedback on your CV from experienced faculty and academic HR specialists. Here you can upload your CV or, if you don’t yet have one, indicate that you will bring a paper copy to the conference.  We will match you with a senior faculty member and/or staff person for a meeting to review your CV during the conference. Professor Rachel Croson will participate and offer feedback in the Administrative CV Clinic. Once we have your expression of interest, we will reach out with more details about how to sign up for an appointment.

If you would like to take part, whether you are interested in the Jr. CV Clinic or the Admin CV Clinic, please complete a short survey and upload your CV to one of these links:

For the Junior CV Clinic:
https://forms.gle/AETx7SQCx2kWn5BSA

For the Administrator CV Clinic:
https://forms.gle/S2h9K6ZygfiJdbGW9