Guidelines for Creating a Resume or Curriculum Vitae

A resume is a one page overview of your professional qualifications and work experiences. A curriculum vitae, more often used by artists, is a multiple page listing of your professional history which includes educational background, work related experience, exhibition, publications, grants etc.

 List your name address and phone number at the top. Your e-mail address and fax number can be included if you have them. If you have a web site include it. Your birth date, place and marital status are not necessary.
 Listings within topic headings should be organized with the most recent accomplishments first.
 Be consistent about the way you list things and only list an accomplishment under one topic heading.
 Describe you accomplishment concisely but completely. Do not inflate your accomplishments.
 Choose a font style that is easy to read. Design your CV so that is reflects you.
 Your goal is to put your best foot forward, so list topics according to your unique set of accomplishments.
 Things that can individualize your CV are: design or layout of the page, your name header, the paper your choose, use of color or not, and or course the content. With most people owing a personal computer these days CV’s and resumes have become very personalized. Please do not forget that this is a business document and should look professional although personal.
 Topic Headings for artists can include:
1. Education
2. Career Related Experience
3. Teaching Experience
4. Exhibitions (under this you can organize - Solo or One Person Exhibitions, Two Person Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions. Group Exhibitions can state whether they are juried, national, regional, or statewide. Group Exhibition can also be listed as invitational).
5. Publications (under this you can organize - Books authored, Inclusion in books, Articles authored, Inclusion in magazine publications, Citations in books, periodicals, list whether you are represented through an image of your work, list the page).
6. Awards, Grants, Recognitions - Include honors, prizes, fellowships, grants. This category can be separated into separate topic headings depending upon what you have to list.
7. Professional Lectures and Workshops - those presented by you, where, when? Title or topic.
8. Professional Memberships (like NCECA, Florida Craftsmen Inc., International Sculpture Center)
9. Collections (your work in Public, Private, Museum collections)
10. Media Profiles (newspaper reviews, newspaper citations, images in newspapers, video documentation of your work).
11. Catalogues (from exhibitions)
12. Committee work (if an academic resume)

References - Can be listed, or you can state “references are available upon request”.