{"id":6628,"date":"2018-07-05T11:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T23:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=6628"},"modified":"2018-07-05T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T23:05:25","slug":"throwback-thursday-your-academic-credentials-are-better-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesislink.aut.ac.nz\/?p=6628","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Your Academic Credentials Are Better Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post by Dr Anaise Irvine first appeared on Thesislink in February 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I used to look at samples of academic CVs and sigh wistfully, thinking mine could never look so bountiful.<\/p>\n

As a mid-project PhD student, my academic CV contained abstracts for my Honours and Masters level dissertations, plus a tentative abstract for my doctoral research\u2026 and that was pretty much it. I hadn\u2019t yet published papers or presented at international conferences, so I thought I didn\u2019t really have any academic credentials.<\/p>\n

I figured: I\u2019m new at this. I haven\u2019t yet done anything important enough to write about in an academic CV.<\/p>\n

Wrong.<\/p>\n

I sat down with a senior academic mentor one day and talked about what I\u2019d done over the past few years \u2013 university jobs, committees, clubs, academic competitions, and so on. She stopped me and said:\u00a0I hope you\u2019ve got all this in your academic CV<\/em>. I didn\u2019t. I\u2019d never even thought of including those sorts of things. I suddenly realised that there was plenty to put in my academic CV; but my standards for inclusion had been too high. It was one of those great brain-exploding, eye-opening, quick-where\u2019s-my-pen epiphany moments.<\/p>\n

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I could include things like:<\/p>\n