Job Application Documents

Resumes

• CV vs. Resume: What’s the Difference? - from the OITE blog
• Customize a Job-Magnet CV - David Jansen writing about CVs for industry
• Video: Writing a Resume - series from Lynda.com breaks each section down (login with your GT account)
• PhD Transferable Skills - from the UM Career Center

Cover Letters

• Cover Letters -  Tipsheet 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.  For access, you will need to go through Georgia Techs' VPhD portal to create an account.

CV (Curriculum Vitae)

• 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