Online Teaching Blog

Consider these Curriculum Vitae tips before you start writing your CV, which is vital to finding an online teaching job:

1. Remove the funky and cool formatting and awesome headers and footers! It looks great when we print it, but it isn’t HR-system or recruiter friendly. Upload it and watch your data disappear.
2. Length on a CV is unlike length on a resume. Most CV files that I write with little to no experience are at least four pages. An experienced professor might have a 20 page CV or more.

While we are busy storing away holiday decorations and moving kids toys from the living room to their bedrooms (step on a lego this year, anyone? Ouch!), in the back of our minds we are often thinking, “what do we want to do this year that we didn’t last?” I have a personal dislike for the term “New Years Resolution”, because resolutions seem to be more like to-do lists for the first week of January! :) But for many of us, we have a more serious need to secure work and earn additional income in 2014, due to the feeling of instability in the industry we work in and a decrease in workload at some universities.

Ah... as an online teacher, this is about the only week that life feels somewhat normal. Most schools (not all) are on break. That leaves time for reading, too much time for the gym (exhaustion anyone?), too much time for thinking, and for many of my friends in this profession a lot of guilt that they didn't spend that one week of "quarter time" with family.