- 1). Begin your CV with your name and contact information. Include a phone number and email address where you can be reached discreetly. Don't include any personal information that might help an identity thief or which an employer is not allowed to use in hiring decisions, such as your Social Security number, your marital status, your ethnic background or your religion.
- 2). If you are applying for a specific job opening, study the list of qualifications and job responsibilities. Add a section to your CV at the top, listing all the qualifications you have for the job written in sharp bullet points that are easy to read. You want to give your potential employer a reason to keep reading your CV and to call you in for an interview.
- 3). List your relevant work and professional experience, beginning with the most recent. Include your job title, your department and the name of the company. If the company or educational institution is not well-known, add a sentence about the company. Under each position, list your job responsibilities and notable achievements. If you were in charge of employees, include the number of people you supervised. Include the years you worked at each company so an interviewer can see your promotions clearly. If a company you worked for laid you off or went out of business, add some brief information about the company's status.
- 4). List your education, giving the year in which you received each degree. List the subject you received your degree in and, if it is relevant to the job you're applying for, list your dissertation or thesis title. Include any relevant post-doctoral or continuing-education information, as well as any teaching experience. If you are applying for a position at an educational institution, you may want to move the education section to a more prominent position after your initial contact information or qualifications. If you have an academic background and have trained notable students, you may list them here as well.
- 5). List awards and honors that you have received, beginning with the most recent and most prestigious. Include only awards in your field, or honors received because of your professional service. Also, list all research funding you have received and its sources.
- 6). List all your professional associations. Use this section of your CV to highlight all professional service you have performed, committees or boards of directors you have been member of, and editorial positions you have held.
- 7). List your publications, including those that have been accepted for publication but have not yet been disseminated within your field. List your most current work first, so your interviewers can see what you've been up to recently. Include all publications, even those from any non-pharmaceutical field. Use a standard bibliographical format, and keep it consistent across all publications. Include all co-authors of scholarly papers, but put your own name in boldface. If you or your work have been referred to in other scientists' seminal papers, mention those here as well. Also include a full list of all patents you hold or were instrumental in obtaining, even if another company holds the actual patent.
- 8). List all professional speaking engagements you have had. Include the name of the conference or organization, and the date and the title of the talk. Mention if any of your speaking engagements were invited lectures.
- 9). Don't include references in your CV. Your interviewer will ask if he needs to speak to anyone about you.
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