Episode 10

CV WRITING

SEASON 2, EPISODE 10: CV WRITING.

This episode is about trying to write a CV. This is the LAST EPISODE of Season 2!!

I revisit a journal entry I wrote in September 2014. I had gotten some feedback on my CV from a colleague and I started to think more deeply about what I wanted. The biggest blocker was me not knowing what I wanted. Plus, I was completely ignorant about life outside of academia.

I reflect on what I got wrong about CV writing back then, my naivety regarding how job hunting works, why I was still considering staying in academia, my misconceptions about how leaving academia would be a waste of my talents and about life outside of academia in general, academic snobbery, and what it means to let a skill set go.

Timestamps:

[00:00] Intro

[03:48] Journal entry

[09:42] I was writing a CV to find a job, instead of the other way around

[10:36] AI and CV writing today

[10:56] The problem was I didn’t know what I wanted

[11:45] Naivety about how job hunting works

[13:39] I should leave academia, but I kept thinking about staying

[15:00] Leaving academia would be a waste of my talents…wrong!

[15:53] Academic snobbery & arrogance

[17:49] Hard and soft technical skills inside academia vs outside academia

[19:03] Academic snobbery is totally misguided