Length is allowed here
Unlike a resume, an academic CV is not held to one or two pages. Padding is still visible, but a complete record of research and teaching is expected.
Resume Examples
Academic CV Examples
An academic CV follows different rules from a resume. Length is not a virtue but it is not a fault either: research, teaching, funding, supervision and publications all need room. What matters is that the reader can find each of those sections where they expect it.
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Keep the conventional order
Qualifications, appointments, research, funding, teaching, supervision, publications. Reviewers look for these in sequence and rearranging them costs you attention.
Close the loop on funding
Amount, funder, your role and the outcome. A grant listed without your role on it is ambiguous in exactly the way a panel will notice.
Separate teaching from supervision
Delivering a course and supervising doctoral candidates are different responsibilities, and conflating them understates the more senior one.
Related resume examples
- Physician Resume ExampleA medical resume is a formal document more than a marketing one. It is read for registration status, training path, clinical exposure and evidence of audit, teaching and research. Structure matters more than style here: the reviewer is checking boxes in a specific order, and a page that anticipates that order gets read properly.
- Teacher Resume ExampleSchools read a teaching resume for two things in the first pass: that you are qualified and cleared to teach, and that children learn more because you are in the room. Qualifications and clearances belong near the top where they can be found quickly. Everything below that should be evidence of impact — attainment, behaviour, curriculum work — rather than a description of what teaching involves.
- Engineer Resume ExampleEngineering resumes are read by engineers, and engineers want specifics: the scale of the project, the standards you worked to, the tools you used and what changed because of your work. A page written in generalities reads as someone describing a job title rather than a job.
- Data Analyst Resume ExampleAnalyst resumes fail in a predictable way: they describe tools instead of decisions. Anyone can write SQL, Python and Tableau. What a hiring manager wants to know is which decision changed because of your analysis, and what happened afterwards. Write the decision first and the tooling second.
Frequently asked questions
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How long should an academic CV be?
As long as the record requires. Early career often runs to three or four pages; established academics considerably more. Completeness matters more than brevity.
Where do publications go?
In their own section, in a consistent citation format, usually most recent first. If the list is long, lead with the most relevant and summarise the rest.
Do I need a separate resume as well?
Yes, if you apply outside academia. Industry recruiters expect a two-page resume, and an academic CV sent into that process is usually set aside unread.