ELEC-L0902 - Introduction to Doctoral Studies D, Lecture, 12.1.2024-17.4.2024

Make yourself an academic CV, a career plan and a lifeline analysis

Academic CV

For your academic CV, look for instructions online and make an academic CV. Mention your name and student number in the text and name the file with “your last name_CV”. Please submit your CV as a PDF file to the submission box in MyCourses. Also take your CV with you to the seminar (have the PDF file available), where you will show it to the members of your group. Prepare yourself to give feedback on at least one of your group member’s CV and you will receive feedback on your CV from at least one of your group members. Please remember to give feedback on what is good and what could be improved.

Career plan

The career plan is one of the documents that the doctoral personal study plan (DPSP) consists of. You might already have a career plan, and then you do not need to redo it for this assignment. If you have not done a career plan yet, please check the guidelines and make yourself a career plan: (scroll down to career plan)

Please combine your CV and career plan into one PDF file. Mention your name and student number in the file and name the file with “your last name”. Please submit the PDF file to the submission box in MyCourses.

Lifeline

1) Print the attached page or get a blank A4 sheet of paper and place it horizontally. If you have a blank sheet, draw a horizontal line across the paper, and a vertical line at the left edge of the page

2) Write “happy, satisfied, fulfilled” at the top of this line, and “unhappy, frustrated, unsatisfied” at the bottom of the line. Now write a zero at the junction of the two lines, and your current age at the far right of the horizontal line.

3) Identify key moments - significant events, experiences, achievements, people, insights and turning points that have shaped your studies & career. Place each one at the right point in terms of your age, and above or below the line corresponding to whether you felt “happy, satisfied, fulfilled” or “unhappy, frustrated, unsatisfied” at the time. Connect the dots with a line.

4) Bring the paper with you to our workshop in Seminar 5.