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As you progress in your college career, you may want to consider putting together a curriculum vitae or an extended resume. CVs look really good for graduate or any other professional schooling as well as grant and scholarship applications. Job interviews, unless they are for a teaching position, lawyer position, doctor position, or other major professions, do not require CVs (do not hand a CV to the person interviewing you for a sales associate position, they will look very confused…this happened quite often to me). I will provide tips and a look at my CV as well:

Tips to Consider:

• Keep the format consistent- Everything that needs to be capitalized, should remain capitalized, font is the same, margins are the same, etc
• Font should be a certain, size 11-12 point
• Arial or Times Roman Numeral are the only acceptable fonts
  
• Order your CV in sections that are the most important and most relevance
• Keep dates in mind (start with most recent and end in oldest date)
• This is an extended resume so have items on the CV within the last 3-5 years.
• Have a VERY STRONG front page!
• Go to your career center in college to have them look over it. They are super helpful!
• Update this CV constantly!

Here we go onto my CV. My CV has 0.5 inch margins all around. Let’s start with the top that I blocked out my personal stuff for obvious reasons:

My name is in 16 point font and I used Times Roman Numeral. Below my name, I put my address, phone number, and email in 11 point font. I also put a space in between name and address to put my number and email address. I added a shape to divide the CV. 

Next will be my most important attributes to my CV. Since I use my CV mainly for grant applications and graduate school admissions, I put education and research first:

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