General Documents
Resumes
- Resume vs. CV: What’s the Difference? - from the UC Davis Internship and Career Center
- Customize a Job-Magnet CV - David Jansen writing about CVs for industry
- Video: Writing a Resume - series from LinkedIn Learning breaks each section down (login with your GT account)
- PhD Transferable Skills - from the UM Career Center
Cover Letters
- Cover Letters - resources from Columbia University Center for Career Education
- The Cover Letter: Relic or Still Relevant? - article from the Tooling Up series by David Jensen
- Don’t Underestimate the Power of Your Cover Letter - from U.S. News & World Report
- Are You Making These 8 Mistakes on Your Cover Letter? - from U.S. News & World Report
References
- Things You Should Know About Job References - from U.S. News & World
Example Documents from Ph.D.s
- VersatilePhD - job application documents that were used successfully can be located in the "PhD Career Finder" section.
Applications for Academic and Principal Investigator Positions
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Creating and Maintaining Your CV - article from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Cover Letter
- The Basics of Cover Letter Writing - from the Chronicle of Higher Education
Research Plan/Statement
- Writing a Research Statement (PDF) - advice from GT associate professor Lena Ting
- Writing a Research Plan - from Science Careers
Teaching Statement/Philosophy
- Crafting Your Teaching Statement - from the Center for Teaching and Learning at Georgia Tech
- 4 Steps to a Memorable Teaching Philosophy - from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Writing A Statement Of Teaching Philosophy For The Academic Job Search (PDF) - this resource from the University of Michigan includes a useful rubric for evaluating teaching philosophies.
Letters of Recommendation
- Dos and Don'ts for the Academic Job Search: Letters of Recommendation - via the Inside HigherEd GradHacker blog
- Getting Great Letters of Recommendation - from the Chronicle of Higher Education
- Gendered Wording in Letters of Recommendation - you might want to show this article to letter writers and/or try running letters through the Gender Bias Calculator