🎓 Awesome-Academic-CV

A fully text-based, modular, and checklist-driven guide to crafting a polished academic CV — designed for PhD applicants, researchers, postdocs, and R&D professionals.

Whether you're applying to graduate school, a postdoctoral fellowship, an academic job, or transitioning into industry research, this guide provides curated examples and a rigorous framework to help your CV stand out.

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📂 Repository Structure

Awesome-Academic-CV/
├─ README.md                 # You are here.
├─ Best-examples.md          # Reference CV templates for academia and research
├─ Content-Tips.md           # Advice on writing strong CV content (with examples)
├─ Formatting-Guidelines.md  # How to format your CV cleanly and consistently
├─ Checklist.md              # A ready-to-use checklist before submission
└─ Common-Mistakes.md        # Common pitfalls and how to fix them

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📘 Module Overview

• Best-examples.md A collection of high-impact academic CVs — from early PhD students to postdocs and industry researchers. Includes LaTeX and Markdown versions.

• Content-Tips.md Writing tips and examples for each section: publications, research experience, teaching, awards, skills, and more.

• Formatting-Guidelines.md Covers font, spacing, file naming, LaTeX/Markdown styles, and visual clarity.

• Checklist.md Actionable list of must-haves to finalize your CV. Great for last-minute reviews.

• Common-Mistakes.md A diagnostic guide to spot common issues: vague bullet points, formatting errors, file mishandling, etc.

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🎯 Who This Is For

• 🌱 PhD applicants preparing statements and CVs for grad school
• 🧪 PhD students / postdocs building research-intensive résumés
• 📊 Academic job seekers applying to faculty or research positions
• 🛠️ Industry R&D scientists with a publication/research background

🧠 Whether you're in STEM, social sciences, or computational fields — this framework helps you write, format, and revise with confidence.

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💡 Tips for Use

• Treat this as both a learning guide and a template hub.
• Start with Best-examples.md, polish using Content-Tips.md, clean up with Formatting-Guidelines.md, and finish with Checklist.md.
• Use Common-Mistakes.md as a final sanity check.

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📜 License

MIT License · Free to use and adapt with attribution.

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📬 Feedback & Contributions

Pull requests and issues welcome. If you have strong academic CVs to share (in LaTeX or Markdown), submit them via PR to be included in future updates.

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⭐ Give This Repo a Star

If you found this helpful, star the repo and share with fellow researchers or applicants. Let's raise the standard of academic CVs together.