The Academic CV Writing Bootcamp: A Comprehensive Guide

1. Introduction: Hello, everyone. Welcome to this course. I would like to provide some details of what we're going to learn in this course. There are different sections. We divided writing a CV into different sections. And we're going to start with the personal information in which you're going to give details of your education, for example, your latest obtained degree. If you have some Google Scholar profile, we're going to see how we're going to mention it there. You're going to provide the location and also your contact address in the personal information. Then we're going to discuss about the education, about your background education, the latest obtained diploma, and how to give details, how to provide some information that are useful for the reviewer to find easily everything that they need with one look at your CV, and then we're going to talk about the professional experience where you had some probably experiences in industry or you were, for example, a visiting scholar at One University, you would like to write it there in professional experience. Then you have the teaching experience section where we are discussing how to provide the details and curriculum of the things that you were teaching, of the topics and subjects that you were teaching. It's important and who you were teaching for, for example, it was a master's level, it was a bachelor's level. It was a PhD level. What was the course? What is it about? And what was your contribution to this course, et cetera. And then we're going to discuss supervision experience if in case you had some PhD candidates before, if you had some for example, masters students or bachelor's students, you can mention there and divide them into different categories. Then you have research interests, the parts that you would like to work, or you have already worked in like supply chain management, operations, research, optimization, et cetera. We have publications here, then skills and details of skills are very important that we are going to discuss in the relevant video. In case if you had some funding and grants and one grants awarded, something like this, you can put it in this section. We're going to give you details, how to mention them, how to discuss them in details and provide relevant information with respect to each one of them. And then you have the conferences and participations that is very important to have this in your CV because it shows that you are an active person in your field and you're motivated to move from one place to another to participate in conferences that are relevant to your field of study, and you would like to actively follow up to see what the new research trend is about. Then we have honors and awards, referee activity memberships, certifications, and training, patents, and finally references that we discuss all the details about all of these sections. So you might wonder, maybe you don't have any patent, should I watch this video or not? I would say yes. Even if you don't have pattern, it's nice to know how to write it because maybe later on you may have some patternt and you would like to include it in your CV. So it's nice to watch all of the videos, but don't be afraid if you don't have the information about one of the sections. For example, it's okay not to have patent. It's okay not to include this section. It's okay not to include grant and funding. If you don't have anything to put there, it's okay. But if you have, it's nice to put it there. So I'm reviewing all of these sections to mention how you can divide your content and your background and your information into different organized categories into different organized sections. So please go ahead and watch all of them. But it's okay. Some sections are important, but they can be also optional because you might not have the option and information to put there like honors and awards or grants. You may not have participated in any conferences. It's okay. You can escape this section in your CV. So all in all, I try to have a comprehensive a lecture on how to write your academic CV. And if you have all of them, it's perfect. If you don't have all of this section, it is still perfect because not everyone has all of them, all of this information. So just put the right information and the right content in the right place. And this course is going to discuss about the content, not about the shape and the template. This is why I'm not going to use any template. Out there in the Internet, you can find many templates that you can start writing your CV using those templates. It's up to you. It's your taste, it's your decision, et cetera. However, in this course, we are not going to learn how to use a template or how to draft a template. We are going to learn how to put a valuable content and the right content in your CV. This is the main focus of this course. So keep that in mind and you can obtain the information and knowledge from this course and you can implement it in whatever template that suits you. It's okay. I'm going to give you the source of my VOT file that is going to provide you and serve you as a template. And using this template, you can understand the details because after a few days, you might forget the details and you don't want to rewatch the videos. So easily you can go through the ord file that I provide you. You see, Okay, this part of the education is also important to be included. So that, you know, you use this template of work that I'm going to write an example of a CV as a benchmark to implement it in the template that you find interesting. I wish you a very good experience watching this course. I hope that this course can help you to write to help you so you can write a better version of your CV and get the position that you would like. Writing a good CV, drafting a good CV is very important. There are some people out there. I know them that they have a very nice background. They have a very good experience and education. However, because they wrote their CV in a bad way, they couldn't get the position very fast. However, writing everything correctly could work. If writing everything correctly is combined with a nice experience and background, it would definitely lead to a good solution. So watch all of the videos, and I wish you enjoy this course, and I'm always there. You can write in the Q&A box. If you have any questions, I'm here to help you. Thank you very much for watching. 2. Personal Information: Hello, and welcome to this lecture. In today's lecture, we're going to discuss the first section of writing a CV, which is the personal information. So before dive in, I would like to give you a brief explanation that generally, we're going to provide the valuable content that you need to include while you're writing your CV. However, the template is your choice. So you can choose any template that you would like. It depends on your taste and your decision. However, the content, the focus of this course is providing the right content for different sections of your CV. So let's start with the first part of the CV. Before we start writing the personal information, I would write the name of the CV holder, in this case, I'm talking about myself. So I just make it bold, so it would be easy for the reader to understand that this is the CV of Raza Shahin. And also, we can remove the name on the top of the CV and include it in the personal information section, but it depends on your taste. Let me go through the details of the personal information section, and then we discuss this again. So I would say personal information. In order to distinguish this from the other parts, I would put it as heading two and also bold it a bit. Okay, so now let me start by the first part of the CV. Let me just adjust this one. So this one can be here, and this one can be adjusted accordingly, okay? The first part that we may want to consider is the education. Okay, now it's good. The first thing is that we would like to discuss the education. So in this part, you need to write down the latest obtained diploma. So if you are now a master's degree student, you write down bachelor's degree. And if you are a PhD candidate, the latest obtained diploma for you would be master's degree because you are now studying your PhD and you're not a PhD yet. So you will write the latest obtained diploma here. So here, for example, PhD in computer science, you can say, and if you have minor, for example, minor in operations research. So this would be the correct form of writing it, I would say. So for example, if you let me just write another example here, or masters degree student in industrial engineering, minor in production planning, for example, if you're currently a student at master's level in Industrial Engineering, don't write it like this. You should write bachelor's degree, the latest obtained diploma should be placed here. And I simply just bold this part because it would be easier for you to find it, and it can distinguish different bullet points. From the provided details in front of them, so I would do it. So the next thing is that Googles Color. So if you have some publications, you should probably have a Google Scholar profile that we can discuss here. So it is, again, bold, for the Google coolor, we need to report two metrics. First is citation and then He index, ok? So a Google Scholar profile is a profile provided by Google for each individual who has some publications. So if you're having a Google, if you don't have a Google Scholar profile and if you have already published, please go ahead and provide this profile for yourself. And it would be beneficial. For example, let me provide you with my Google Scholar. Okay, this is my Google Scholar. It is listing all the papers that I publish, like the year, all of them. It is sorted based on the citation. So cited by 68, 44, et cetera, it goes down until the very end of the papers, okay? Like here. So this is a Google Scholar profile example. So two metrics that you would like to report is the number of citation per profile, which is 250 in this case, for me, which is 250 He index of seven. Okay? So we write down seven here as well. Let me just bold this part and also this part. Okay. So what does it mean to have a citation of 215? In case you don't know, for example, I wrote this paper in 2022, and this paper has been cited or referenced by 68 other papers. So this paper has gained 68 citations. And in general, a profile, a person, a scientist with different publications, they can get a lot of citations. Okay? So 250 is the sum of all of my citations of all of my papers. So this is what the citation means. And then H index is computed by the Google itself. It says that if you have at least seven papers that each of them has received seven citations. So in my case, it will be like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I have seven papers that at least they have seven citations, each of them. If I want my H index to be eight, I need my next paper to also have eight. So the eight paper needs to have eight citation as well. Then it will be eight H index, meaning that I have at least eight papers that each of them is having eight citations, okay? So this is how it works basically. So I report this information here. Also, it would be nice to use hyperlink. Whatever you are referencing in your CV, for example, it needs to be validated. For example, you're sending your CV to me, and I would like to see your Google Scholar profile. You say, Okay, I have this much of citation. I need to check it myself. I need to open the Google Scholar start searching your name. Probably there might be some people with similar names as you, and then I need to find where your profile is and who is you, et cetera, and which profile belongs to you. However, in order to avoid that, we can use hyperlinks. So here is the link to my Google sculler. I just click I highlight the Google scull. I will right click on it and provide the link. And in this little box here, I would say I would write down the, you know, I will type the link and I said, Okay, so now it has become blue. Why? Because we added a hyperlink? So the reader will also understand that this is blue with underline, it means that it is hyperlink. So if we click on Control, now I'm not holding anything. If I hold Control like now, I can click on it and it will directly open my Google Scot. You see, it's very much easier for the reader to understand this. So this is very good way to do hyperlinking. Then another profile that you might want to report is research gate. We report the same thing in research gate and like citations and h index, I would say seven. Okay. So then I bold this part, this part and this part. Usually research gate collects lower number of citation as compared to the Google Scholar. So the reason is that there are different ways of filtering citations obtained in different engines. So research gate is more strict. Therefore, they collect less citations. Usually, for example, Something is published on a website and they are referencing one papers of you, Google Scholar is going to count that, but research gate may not count that. Again, we do hyperlinking, we put the link, and we print we paste the link here. This is the link to my Google Scholar, but it's not important. I'm just showing you you put the link of your research gate. And if you don't have the research gate yet, please go ahead and make it for yourself. And then the last profile is Scopus. So if you have a Scopus profile as well, please report it here. And if you don't have, please go ahead and make it because it's nice to have it and it's the most reliable and most scientific profile for many people. So when you're applying for an academic position, it is highly appreciated to provide your Ecopus profile. And if you don't have any publications, don't worry, you don't have to provide any of these. It's okay. Again, here, you provide the hyperlinks. I just do some hyperlinking here. You just provide your hyperlink here, so it's okay. And then you need to provide your ORCID number. So ORCID number is a number for each individual who are publishing papers. So if you know your ORCID number, it would be nice to put it here. So let me just put mine 467. Okay? So this is my Osit number. And again, to avoid for people to go and search and find my ORCID number, I just copy paste this, and you see I paste it in the Google and directly it finds me. So it directly goes to my profile. So this is my Oset profile. My different papers of mine are here, and here I can copy my Osit. So here, if you don't have Osit, just come to this place, but you need to have some publications, I assume. So you come to this place and make a profile for yourself to have your Osit number, and then you can copy the link here again and just make a hyperlink. Like this, and it would be nice to have this one also. So the next thing is to put your phone number, which would be depending on where you are, you provide the extension first and then the number. So if you're applying for an academic position, it is rare that you get a phone call, but it's possible. So you put it there in case somebody just wants to grab the phone and call you, you leave them the option. Then you have the email email address would be nice to put it here. Then so basically, probably you have sent them your CV using email. They have already your email, but again, in order to avoid something going back and forth for the CV reviewer to search and find information about you, and you're not the only one who is being reviewed. So you would like to provide all the information in one place, so it would be easier for them, and it leaves a good impression for them as well, believe me. So you put the email address again here and then you put the location here, for example, I put Montreal, Canada. And status, if you're a foreigner where you live or even if you're not a foreigner, you put the status in the country. So you would say, for example, work permit here or I don't know, permanent resident, something like this. So let me tell you why these information are important. So the location is very important because, for example, I am in Montreal and I'm looking for a position. There is an opening in Montreal and I would like to send my resume there, my CV there. And the person would like to have someone starting immediately. So there is a difference between the person who applies from Montreal and someone who applies from another continent, because someone coming from another continent might might need some time, you know, because they need to go through probably the visa process, the work permit, and settling down, moving to the new place, to the new country, getting to know the culture, et cetera. But I'm already here in Montreal. So it's an advantage. So if you are in Montreal and applying for a job in Montreal, provide your location. Even if you're not there, I am applying to go to United States and I am in Montreal. So it would be nice to tell always to keep the person to know where you are and where you would like to move from. It's very important because they know that to consider you for an immediate position or not. Because it's okay that they say, Okay, we have an opening. We would like someone ideal starting in six months. So okay, if you're coming from Germany, it's still okay. You need time to move, settle down, visa, paperwork, et cetera. But if I want someone to start next Monday, I need to know if the person is here or not. So providing the location is very important. I don't think that if you don't provide the details, they're going to say, okay, I don't know if he's here or not, but if the guy is here, I'm going to take it, et cetera. So sometimes it's very important. So if you are, for example, applying for a job that they say that we would like someone to come here, immediately start the work and you're not in the country, it's okay. You're not going to lose the position because of that only. Just provide all the information. They may think that you're a suitable person for another position that is going to start in six months. So provide the location and also the status. So if you're the permanent resident, it's probably much easier for the employer to hire you because you don't have to go through sponsorship, so it doesn't have any additional costs. They know that you're already here, you're not going to leave the country at some point, probably. And if you have a work permit, it is still any status is good, but you need to provide the status. This is what I'm saying. So work permit, saying that, okay, this person allows to work, so no problem. Okay. This is very important. And if you're applying for a position, for example, in the United States and you are having a work permit status in Canada, you still provide it. I have no status in the United States, okay? So these are the important things that you can mention. Also, here, you could add one other part languages. There you can provide the languages that you speak. Like, for example, Persian is my native language. I would say native. Then I would say English. I would put Swan, and I would say, for example, French, it's M two, et cetera. So all of the languages that you speak, you put it here, and you provide the level. It's very important. So for the native language, if you're a native speaker of language, you don't need to provide any reference. For English, for example, if you have done the Toffl or Ales, it's nice to provide a hyperlink here and show your certificate saying that, for example, C, I can say C one, academic, IL, score of, for example, eight out of nine, okay. So then I hyper link this to, you know, my result. And also for the french as well. If you have something, it's nice. If you don't have it, it's okay. They can measure it during an interview. So these are the important information that you can put. Here, also, you can put the PhD, for example, in computer science, you can provide a hyperlink to your diploma. So try to put as much as information, you can there because if they have this impression that, okay, this guy is providing details and I can understand anything that I want without going back and forth in Google and without writing back and forth to him or her, it leaves a good impression because your CV is a sample of your work because you have provided everything that you could in your CV. So it's important to make it very nice and clear. So this is the end of the personal information. One thing before ending this video to mention is that we provided the name above here. It's your call. You can put it here or you can put one bullet point in the beginning saying that name, then you write down your name. It's your call. It depends on you. I would suggest putting your name above. So the person don't have to start going through the details of your personal information section to find your name. So when he opens or she opens the CV, Okay, guy this CV is for za Shahin. So I would suggest doing it like this, but it's your call. You can also make it like that. It's nice. And this is the end of the personal information section. In another video, we're going to discuss other sections of a CV. Thank you for watching. 3. Education: Hello, everyone. Welcome back. In today's video, we're going to discuss about the education section of the CV. So let's dive in. I'll start right away by the education. In order to distinguish education from different parts of the CV. I would just make it to be heading two, and I bolded. And then I start writing the bullet points. So first, start from the latest education that you have. So for example, if you've got a PhD, first start by your PhD, then your master's degree, then your bachelor's degree. And generally, when you're at PhD, you don't need to provide, for example, high school diploma or college, et cetera. It depends on the latest level. But for example, if you've got a bachelor's degree, bachelor's degree is nice and college degree or high school diploma, depending on the education system of where you are, you can add the last one or two. So if you're a PhD, you don't need to provide details of high school diploma or college, but bachelor is good to provide it and masters. And for example, if you're a bachelor's degree, it would be nice to have your college or high school diploma details there as well. So I would start by the latest, which is the PhD. I would say I would first write the name of the university like this. Then the next line, you could say doctor of philosophy, for example, PhD, computer science mining operations, research. Okay. Then you might want to write down the place of the university where the university is, like the campus, et cetera information. Here, it would be also nice to have the like, you can put 2020, 2024. So you're saying that between these times you were at University of GustaveaEfel, okay? So it would be nice to make some bold font here or Italic. I would put this one as Italic. And yeah. Okay. The next thing that you would like to mention is about your thesis. So I don't want this one to be Italy. You can discuss your thesis here. Like I will discuss mine. Like adhoc stops into public transport, study of flex route, transit. Okay. So then you discuss your thesis, I would say, then you start writing your supervisor, for example, then co supervisors. So these are the main information you need to include in the education part for one part. So for example, we start with the date here. Then you write down the name of the university that you got your diploma from, and it's nice to have for example, Gustavea IPL University, hyperlink here as well. So you need to add that. So simply just right click and add the link here. Then you write down the degree that you got your diploma the degree that you are, for example, Doctor of Philosophy, PhD. If you master's degree, you write down master's degree here. Then you can write bachelor's degree or whatever your level of education is. You put it here. And then computer science is the field you study. And if you have minor, focus in the computer science is a vast field. So I was focusing on operations research. So I just simply write down the operations research. So if you were industrial engineering, just put industrial engineering here, mathematics, whatever, and then the minor, if you have a minor, like production planning, operations management, for example, et cetera. And if you don't have anything, it's okay. You just eliminate this part. Then the place, the city and the country of the university or the study or the place where you were studying. You could either put it here or simply put it here, but I would just put it here because the reader, it would be easier for the reader to follow, I think, this line. Then you talk about your thesis topic. You write down the thesis topic, title, whatever that is there here and exactly put the title exactly as it is. Okay? And then if you have, for example, this thesis of yours is now online out there, not being published, but the thesis itself is published, not to extract some papers from the thesis. So if the thesis itself is already published, it's nice to have a hyperlink to the thesis as well. So this way, the reader can simply click on it and go and read the abstract of your thesis and they understand what you did during your PhD. See how hyperlinking could be beneficial. It's nice to do it. Otherwise, if it's not possible, another option would be to provide a Google for example, Google Drive ink, where, for example, you uploaded your PhD summary, abstract or the full PhD. You upload something, you upload your PhD fess there, or a short summary. Like in the first page, you put the abstract in the second, third and the fourth pages, you would put the first page of your published papers. So just take this example. I put in the first page, I would put my abstract. Then I would put the first page of the first paper published from the thesis. If you have a second publication, then I would just put the second page of the second first page of the second papers published, et cetera, something like this. Or you can simply provide the abstract in the first page and provide some references in APA style to the papers you publish. If you have no publications, don't worry about it. It's not a problem, of course, and I'm just giving you details that if you have some publications, it would be nice to show them here as well. Okay? Otherwise, just simply put the abstract of your thesis and even if your thesis is not online out there. Then it's nice to write down your supervisor name, doctor, for example, X. I'm just putting I'm not putting the name. I'm just making an example. And also, the name of the co supervisors you put there also, it would be nice to have to have the Google Scholar hyperlink to these profiles. So if your supervisor is having probably a Google Scholar or Scopus, like you here or research gate, first, I would just put either Google Scholar or Skaps, o? And then if neither of them is there, you just put the research gate. If they have something there, you hyperlink this with their Google Scholar, for example, and also this person and also this person. It's very nice and it's beneficial to do it. I think they would understand who you work with. This is an important matter because if you're working with a successful supervisor who is famous, for example, or who has a lot of citations or generally publishes in reputable journals, you learned many things from that person. So it's probable and it would be interesting or maybe they know your supervisor. It's nice. I think in general, it's nice. So these are the information you need to put for your, for example, PhD. And then let's go back to next level, you can also mention of Paris, let's say, and then provide the details again. So it would be the next level education. You could say master of science, for example, C, industrial engineering, for example, minering, production, planning, Paris, France. Okay? The same information and the same logic goes here as well, just like before. So the important thing is to consider all of these four bullet points while talking about your education. This is the important thing. The same information is going to be repeated for the master's degree and the bachelor's degree. So we don't need to write these two levels because it's simply what has to be repeated from here. Here, for example, you write the thesis topic, you write the supervisor, name, you write down the co supervisor reserves, for example, and don't forget to, you know, put the bold here, doctor K, for example, and you just simply hyperlink. For hyperlinking, highlighted, right click Link, copy paste the link here and put Okay, that's it. It's hyperlinked. So it's nice, and I put the template out there for you in the end so you can insert your information easily into these templates. It's much easier for you to do it. So that's it for this section. Education is almost there. So we're going to discuss other sections in other videos. Thank you for watching. 4. Experience: Hi, everyone. Welcome back. Now we're going to discuss how to write the experience section. So let's just start right away. I would just write down experience. I put it heading two, and I build it. Okay. Then here, what I would start with is a bullet point where I typed the dates, for example, 2020-2024, and where I was working is University of Kostava. I felt, for example, the same place as I was doing my PhD. But because I was working as a researcher to obtain my PhD, I would like to discuss the part. So here, I would say, first, you write down the dates. You write down the place, then I would write down the position and the topic that I was basically or the project that I was working with. So I was doctoral researcher, and the project that I was working on was incorporating ad hoc stops in public transport, study of flex route transit. So this is the topic that I was working on and where I was working was Friend, okay? So this is the first thing to consider here. And also, we could maybe remove this bullet point, sorry, no Leo, yeah, it's good. Okay. So then while I'm having this information, I have the time that I was working in this place. This is the place that I was working. This is my position that I'm going to make it italic, and this is the project that I was working on. This is the project. Is it justified? Yes. And this is the location that I was working. Okay. So is it enough to just simply mention this information? I would say no, because this is only giving a general idea that Reza Shahin was a doctoral researcher at the University of GustavaEFel 2020-2024. And the project he was working on was incorporating at Hg stops in a public transport system. He was working in Little France. Is it enough? No, because if I'm going to hire Reza Shahin, I need to know the things that he was working on to see if he has enough experience on the things that I am interested. To do that, it's important to consider some details of what you have done while you were there in this place. So you can say, let me just you can say tasks here or you can eliminate tasks also. So you can say the responsibilities, tasks, whatever that you were doing there, and start describing the things that you were doing there. Like I would say in maybe six, eight bullet points, you describe what you were doing like research. Is it good? No. Writing research will transfer no information to the reader, saying that, Oh, Sorry. So you can say sensitivity analysis. Is it enough? No, it's not enough because it's very generic. So in order for the reader, just put yourself in the shoe of the reader. The reader needs to know everything about you and your responsibilities and the details without even talking to you. So by reading this information, they need to understand everything about you did. So in order to clarify this, you need to provide as much detail as possible. Okay? So I would say like this. So I'm going to give some information about this project and how I contributed to this project. So it was a problem there. It was a optimization problem. So then I say the problem centered on optimizing a door to door pickup and drop off. Service is for customers. Okay. So people who are reading my work necessarily who are reading my CV necessarily don't know what Flex transit or FRT is. So they don't know it because they were not probably working on it. I was the person who was working on it, okay? So in order to make it clear for the reader that a study of flex route transit, what is this? So I'm going to provide some information. Okay? So it is very important to provide details because when you're describing your work, you know it very well because you were the one who were working in this position on this project. The reader has probably zero information and background and knowledge about what you were working on. So you need to create the context and set the ground for them to start understanding your work and you show that your work was valuable and your work was significant. You had a contribution. To do that, I started by the problem centered on optimizing door to door pickup and drop off service for customers. Now by reading this sentence, the reader like you, can understand a little about the problem, about the project that I was working on. So it was an optimization problem that was offering a door to door pickup and drop off for customers. Okay? So this is what I understand. And the objective was to devise the most efficient route for serving customers special specifically, I would say, specifically, aiming to minimize both writing and waiting times for customers. So let me just Okay. Now I mentioned, so it's nice also to at least have one bold word, the keyword in each bullet point. So the problem centered on optimizing door to door pickup and drop off service per customers. So this is a context. And so we were aiming. So the objective of this study was to devise the most efficient route for serving these customers. And specifically, we were focusing on minimizing the right time and waiting time of customers. So this is a very nice context for this project. And when someone who knows nothing about this problem, they can start understanding it. Okay, this guy was working on an optimization problem. It was a transfer system. They were trying to minimize the writing time and waiting time for customers while trying to find the most efficient route for the vehicle. So this is a good introduction for the. Then my contribution. I'll start by my contribution. Developed like two mixed integer linear programming or simply milk formulations to find the optimal routes for scheduling a fleet of vehicles for the problem. Okay. So now you can make this word bold, and little by little, you will see you're seeing that, okay, now this was the problem and this was the aim, and this is how they tried to address the problem. They devised, developed two milk formulation to find the optimal root. Okay? So little by little, we're going forward. Next, for example, I designed and added new constraints to the milk formulation. And you may want to, for example, specifically mention what were the, you know, added constraints like capacity constraints, Or rejection or you don't need to write or rejection constraints, et cetera. Now, I'm mentioning that I developed. This was a problem. This was the aim, and this was the objective that we wanted to target. This is how I contributed. I provided a mathematical formulation. Then I add some new constraints like capacity and rejection constraints, okay? And I'm repeating everything here because I would like you to see the progress of writing what I did. So let me also pd this one what I could say later, for example, would be something like we could say, let me just see what else I could add, for example. I could we can, for example, mention that trend the milk with specifically designed cuts a new set of valid inequalities order to improve the linear relaxation, reducing the computation time by 97%. So change compared to the best valid inequalities in the literature. So this is rather technical. So you can this part, this is rather technical. And if you're going to discuss probably your tasks and responsibilities, at some point, they become technical. But if the reader is someone from your field, they are technical enough because they are going to hire you. They should be technical enough, so they understand. So then Again, I start from here. I want to show the story and the progress. We define the problem, the aim, what we want to do, what is the objective, what the contribution is a milk formulation. We added some new constraints and we improve their linear relaxation. Generally, it takes some times, for example, to solve this problem. We have a new set of valid inequalities that reduce the computation time significantly and it's nice if you have some result, also show your result and the output of your contribution very shortly, very briefly, like me in one sentence saying that, okay, we'll reduce 90% of the computation time in some cases compared to what has been done so far, for example. This is also nice to be mentioned, and then you can also, for example, mention that implemented the model in, for example, C plus plus, this could be also beneficial. So you can bold this line which we would say that, this person also knows C plus plus and how to implement met formulation in C plus plus because he has already done it. And then we could develop a greedy heuristic algorithm and serving as an effective warm start to facilitate the CPLx optimization process thereby improving the quality of resultant solutions. So I would just make this part bold. Then I'm mentioning that apart from what I did, so there are different contribution. We developed the mil. We had some new constraints. It's another contribution. We had a set of valid inequalities. It is another contribution. It is a technical knowledge being shown here that I'm good with C plus plus. Here we are saying that we developed a heuristic algorithm, for example. It shows another skills of mine, saying that, okay, this guy knows how to develop a greedy heuristic algorithm and use the arm start, for example. So it is another contribution that we did for the paper, for example. And you can mention that, for example, what I did was designed a generator to generate instances and in frass tructure uniformly distributed in time and space. So this is also would be nice to mention. So in order it gives the reader the influence that this guy tested his model using a generator that follows a uniform distribution in time and in space. And you can say performed advanced sensitivity analysis methods, for example, is it enough note include details including, for example, Maurice and analysis of variance, which is typically called Anova to understand the characteristics, behaviors, and their impact on the results. Okay? So you can also bold this part so how many bullet points? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight? So I think eight is enough. Now, when I provided this, let me go through the story one more time. So this guy was a doctor, researcher, and this project, which I have no idea of, like, imagine I'm a reader. I'm the reviewer of the CV who is going to hire Reza Shahin, for example. And he was okay in Lil, France, Okay? He was working for this company University Gustave fel 2020-2024. Okay, so what is this Flexout transit? Let's see if he has some information here or not. Okay. And then we say, Okay, the problem centered on optimizing door to door pickup and drive of service for customers. Okay, it seems like this type of public transport that he was working kind of a door to door service for customers. And he was trying to optimize. What was the thing that he was trying to optimize? Let's see if he's including it or not. Okay. The objective, yes, he's including something. The objective was to devise the most efficient route for serving customers. So he was doing some optimization in the routing with respect to some objective functions, which were minimizing the writing time and waiting times of customers. Okay, it's interesting. It seems interesting. It sounds interesting to me. He was trying to reduce the waiting time and writing time of customers in an optimization problem that we're offering a door to door pickup and drop off service for customers in a public transport. That sounds interesting. You see when you provide details for the reader, they may find some logic. It's important to do some logic. But how he did this optimization problem, how he addressed this optimization problem? Let's see if he if he mentions anything He says, I developed to MLP information formulation to find the optimal route for the scheduling of a fleet of vehicles for the problem. So he knows how to do mathematical modeling and mathematical formulation of the problem. It's a good point. So you see by putting this bullet point, the reader might have this understanding. Okay, this guy knows about mathematical modeling because he developed two milp formulation. And then he designed and added new constraints to the milk formulation, like capacity constraint, rejection conc, he knows what he's doing. He added some constraints. And he strengthened the milk with specifically designed cuts like valid inequalities to improve the linear relaxation, reducing computation time by 97%. It shows that his valid inequalities were working correctly because he could reduce the time by 97% in some cases compared to the best one in the literature. That's nice. He did the coding in C plus plus, for example. He also developed a greedy heuristic algorithm, so he knows how to do algorithm development and this was a arm start for Ciplex. For those of you who don't know what arm start, this Varmus start is a function in CPLx library for the optimization problem. Oh, okay, he also has the aspect of approximation methods that serving as a warm start for optimizing the problem. Okay? And he tested his model using a generator, uniformly distributed the instances in time and space. Great, and he performed a sensitivity analysis. If we mentioned that we perform only a sensitivity analysis, it's not clear. So we say we perform sensitivity analysis, including, for example, Maurice and Anova method. Why to understand the characteristic behaviors and their impact on the result. So this is somehow what is expected to be seen when you're discussing your responsibilities in a position. So if you had another experience, just take this template and put it there and try to get the information there and try to make it like a progressive story. It's very nice to make it interesting for the reader, so they they can keep being motivated while going through your CV because an academic CV might be very long at some point, like six pages, ten pages, sometimes. So you need to make it nice for the reader so the reader can actually keep going and keep reading and stay motivated. It's your work. It's an example and a sample of your work. So make it nice. Use this template also to write down different experiences that you have. In another video, we're going to discuss another section. Thank you. 5. Teaching Experience: Hi, welcome back. In this video, we're going to discuss about teaching experiences. Previously, we discussed about experiences. So in order to distinguish teaching, because in academic positions, teaching is very important and valuable. You can include them in the experiences here in this section. But in order to highlight its importance and show that you have a teaching experience in a significant way, I would dedicate one section to teaching experiences, and this part can remains experiences or professional experiences. And then you have teaching experiences here. So we start right away teaching experience experience. Then like always, heading two, I choose heading two, and I make it bold. Then, okay, that's it. We start by the date. I would say something like this. We start by the date. And the place that you were having this experience, I would say, for example, Department of mathematics, strial Engineering, University of Poly technique, Montreal. And when we have this, we have exactly like this one, then we go to the next line to discuss the position exactly like that one, but we make this part bold, but this part is having only teaching experience. So I would say something like what your position was. You can add the task part here again, but let me show you in a few seconds. I would say the position was like teaching assistant and simply just mentioned the place and the country teaching assistant. And you can say for, for example, a course like C plus plus for beginners. So you were the teaching assistant. This part, I would make it italic. You were the teaching assistants of C plus plus course in Montreal, Canada. And you mentioned very exactly you mentioned Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, University of Polytechnic Montreal. Then you can mention tasks here and enter and then go to the next bullet point by pushing the tab button. And discuss your responsibilities and the tasks that you were doing while you were there. For example, you can mention assisting with grading or you can say delivering lectures, for basics, basic concepts of C plus plus, and then you can say, for example, data types and just a quick information and quick details so the reader would know, Okay, how was the level of the class? You say for beginners above here, you mentioned that it's for beginners, but knowing the curriculum is always of help. You can say data types like operations, rations, if conditions or function, these things you were responsible and organized and let problem, for example, solving sessions. This could be another detail and provide thing one to one support for students. So one to one simply means having a meeting with each one of the students separately. So one thing is that you eating. Sorry. Leading. Yeah, leading. Okay. So here, I'm mentioning that the duration where I was working the position for this class in Montreal Canada and the task. Again, this Montreal Canada can be here. It's okay. You can put it after the polytechnic Montreal. You can say Montreal Canada. Okay. And the tasks like assisting with grading, delivering lectures for basic concepts of C plus plus, for example, data types, operations, if conditions, functions, and organizing and organizing and leading problem solving sessions and providing one to one support for students. So this could be information that you can provide for a teaching assistant. You may have probably might have more than one teaching assistant in your resume, in your CV in your background, it's okay you write another part exactly like this one, you start from here, for example, yes, here you would again say, let's say, teaching assistant for operations research, for example. Teaching assistant at masters level. So you can also add it here at masters level. So they know that you were teaching in which level. So you can also say teaching assistant for operations research a master's level and then Montreal, Canada, if you were having this teaching assistant position in the same university, otherwise, you add another bullet point here like the black one in this level, you mentioned like you were in HEC Montreal, for example, doing this operation research, teaching assistant. Then you add the tasks again here, you list them, and it's very straightforward. It is exactly having the same template as the experience or let's call it professional experience. It is having the same template. We are just distinguishing the teaching part to emphasize that we had teaching experiences because when the professional experiences gets too long, they may miss our teaching experience, so we don't want them to miss this important part, so we dedicate a separate section for them. So here is how we need to integrate teaching experience. I will just put the template in the end of this lecture, so you can easily download it and use it and insert your data and all the information that you have for yourself, so you can have a very good template or at least a place where you can get your content organized and then put it in another template if you want. Thank you for watching. 6. Supervision Experience: Hello, everyone, and welcome back. In today's video, we're going to discuss supervision experience. So let's start right away supervision experience. So I will make it to be heading two and then build it. Okay. So in this part, you're going to write down all the students that you were supervising. For example, I would write something like this. If you have a few supervision, like 23, I would just simply start by their name like Rzahahin the name, and then the Department, Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering. Of poly technique, Montreal, for example. And then the thesis topic like in corporate ting, ad hoc stops in public transport, just imagine this is the thesis topic, and then your contribution, your role, you can say like co supervisor or you can say main supervisor or if you had only a minor contribution or a contribution in a specific part, you can say guidance on methodology, for example, you write one of these things there, and then you write down the level like the masters like masters. So it means that Reza Shahin was a student at the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering of Polytechnic Montreal University, the thesis topic title was this. And for example, you were the main supervisor, and Reza was a master delever student, and you simply then start date and end date, you would say, for example, 15, 2018. So if you have two, three students, I would simply just write it like this. It's nice. Or if you have more than five or ten students, you can have PhD level. You can have master's level, for example. And within each of them, you write down something like this, like sorry. So you write down something like this, and you don't write the level here again. Okay. Then another PhD student, like another PhE student 23, and then here you discuss your master's students. You see? So if you have, like, more than five, I would say, five, ten students. You divide them by their level. Like for PHE levels, you had three students. You're going to write three statements like this with different names and details, et cetera. And then you have a few students for masters level. You just simply start by giving the details, et cetera, and you write something like this. But if you have only less than, let's say, five students that you supervised, you just write the beginning. You just instead of saying PhD level, master's level, you write down directly into the bullet points, saying that, okay, za Shahin, another person, another person, et cetera, et cetera. This is the way that you're going to discuss your supervision experiences. So we have three experiences that are very important. So the first one is the professional experience. The second one is teaching experience so far, and the third one is the supervision experience. So this is very important so far. And in the next section, we're going to discuss in the next videos, we are going to discuss different sections of the CV. Thanks for watching. And if you haven't had the chance to rate this course, we would really appreciate it if you rate us and also provide us with constructive comments that could be beneficial and fruitful for us for future lectures so we can learn and consider the constructive comments. Thank you very much. 7. Research Interest: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another video. Today, we are going to discuss about research interests. So let's start Research interests. Okay. So I put it to be heading two, and I bold it. So what is research interest? So if you have some publications, you have worked with different topics like, for example, supply chain management, operations research, optimization, inventory management, production planning, et cetera. So the research interest here would be the keywords of the papers that you have already published. So the keywords of the papers that you publish will become your research interest. This is in case you have some publications. But if you don't have any publications, don't worry. A research interest also means that the parts of the research that you would like to be integrated with, you would like you're a bachelor degree person and you would like to apply for master's degree. Okay? So there are certain parts in your field that you would like to work in those fields in those parts. And you can write down the parts that you're interested in. So basically, you can, for example, either coming from your interest because you have no publications or coming from your publications, you write a few keywords for your research interests, and it's something like you can say operations research to save space, I would just distinguish them and separate them using only a comma. You can say operations research, supply supply chain management, I would say inventory management vehicle routing problem, or you can say flex, root, transit, and you can say constraint programming, mixed integer linear programming, for example, or mathematical modeling, istic and Mistic algorithms. So I think now when I have something like this, it's enough. You just need to provide a few keywords, saying that these are the parts, either you have already published using these keywords or you're interested to publish in these areas. So this is the main thing in discussing the research interests that you're interested in conducting research in these topics. It doesn't mean that you're limited to these topics, but it means that you are interested to these topics more than the other topics. Thank you for watching. 8. Publications: Hello, everyone. Welcome to another video. In this video, we're going to discuss a very important part of your CV, which is publication. Let's start. I would say publication. And then heading two, then make it bold. In this part, it's very important to be very careful about the publications. So what I would suggest if you have there are two options that you can consider and both of them are very nice and very interesting. So the first one is that if you have many papers and many book chapters, conferences, you can divide your publications and you can divide them into different categories. Let me illustrate it with an example. For example, you can say journal papers. You can say conference proceeding, and before that, you can say book chapters, okay? Then let me open, for example, my Google Scholar again here. Okay, this is my Google Scholar. So this one first, we start with the last paper. So I sorted it by the year. So this is the last publication that I had. So I copy the name. I go to Google Scholar, I paste my paper name. I search, so I find my paper. I clicked on site and you see the different reference and styling. I would choose simply the APA because it's the most common used. So I push tab, I go. So this is not a journal paper. It's a book chapter. I would paste it here simply. Okay. Then I go to my Google Scholar again. I have this paper. This is a conference proceeding. I copy the name. I paste it here, I enter, I go to site again. I copy paste the APA style of my reference. And then I enter, I push the tab, and I simply paste it here. I go to another prepare of mine, so again, the book chapter. Let me, this is also a book chapter. Let me find one journal paper. Okay, this is a journal paper. Okay? So I copy. I paste here, I cite and copy it here, I copy it and I paste it here. Okay. So let's push everything to be in one page. So here, if you have one way to divide your papers is to divide them like this. You write down the journal papers, book chapters and conference proceedings, and you divide them. And you start with the latest ones. So in the journal paper, you start with the last ones. Like now we're in 2024 as I'm recording this video. We are in 2024. You start with the 2024, all of the papers, then you go to 2023 and you for example, if you have a 2023 paper, you write it here and then 2022, et cetera. First, the latest publication date. Then you distinguish your papers, something like journal papers, book chapters and conference proceedings, and this is one way of doing it. It's very nice. It's clear and you have a lot of papers, you are dividing them in a very nice manner. Another way is just to put certain number of your publications. Like imagine there are some people that are publishing publishing a lot. You can put selected publications and instead of having conference, and book chapters, et cetera, you don't need to divide them something like this. And we remove this part also. Sorry. So instead, for example, imagine you have 20, 30 papers, 20, 30, 40 papers, and you don't want to them put all of them there in your CV. If you want to put all of them in your CV, you do it with the previous method that I told you. You divide them into journal papers, conference proceedings, book chapters, et cetera. So if you want to include all of them, divide them into those categories. So it would be very clear and understandable. However, if you are having a lot of papers, but you would like to just show a few, you can choose your best papers, your top papers that are published in reputable journals, for example, okay? You choose like five or ten of them, something up to ten papers, and instead of having publications, you can say selected publications. And everybody knows that to see all of your publications, they can easily go up and click on your Google Scholar. So they can see all of it. So don't worry about it. You write down also selected publications. And here, you gold your name, which is important, so they don't have to find your name. As it is selected publication, you have to choose your top tier, you know, journal papers or the very good conference papers. And therefore, you bold where you have published also the papers. So for example, in my field, transportation research Part C is a very reputable journal, so you really want to show it when you're publishing this journal. And then you also have this part, and you also have this part, et cetera. So you either to summarize, you either put all of your publications, and you divide them by journal papers or conference papers and book chapters, something like that. Or you only want to show your best papers, not all of them, but your best papers. And you do it like this. And in both ways, just remember that you need to bold your name, and it would be nice to also bold the places where you publish your papers. It's nice always so they can easily find the journal or the conference and your name. Buffets are nice. Buffets are professional, both methods are interesting. It's your taste, you decided. Both of them are very good. Thank you for watching. 9. Skills: Hello, everyone. Welcome back. In this lecture, we're going to discuss about skills. So let's just start skills. We make it heading two and the bullet. There are different skills that one may have, but it's important to consider all the details of the skills. For example, if you know programming, you just don't mention programming. You need to name the programming language that you know. Let me illustrate it with a few examples. So I would say first operations research. So this is one of my skills, but it is very general. So operations research is a huge word, and there are many things that people can do. And for sure, I'm not, you know, good in all of the details. So I have skills in certain parts. So for example, I can say mixed integer linear programming. So there are different parts. For example, I could say 01 goal programming, meta, U it's a heuristic algorithms, heuristic algorithms or constraint programming. So these are the skills that I have for operations research, and you would like to make it bold, so it is distinguishable from the others. Another skill that you have, for example, it could be machine learning. For machine learning, again, it's a huge word. You just name a few skills that you have. For example, you could say random forest. You have worked with random forest and you name it. Another skill could be, for example, sensitivity, analysis. Then it's not enough just writing, Okay, one of my skill is performing sensitivity analysis, but it's very vast and it's very general. You can say methods that you know very well to perform sensitivity analysis, for example, one factor at a time could be one, full factorial experimental design could be another Sorry. Yeah. Then you could write, for example, analysis of variance. You could say Maurice method, Soble method, something like this. It's a name. I shouldn't be a problem, so we simply just add it to the dictionary. And for example, for management science, I have some management science background, but management science is huge and we need to make it more detail. We could say, for example, we could say production, planning, or we could say, for example, total quality management. Something like this. Then you say, for example, programming with respect to programming, I know C plus plus, I know Python. Oops. I know Python, I know GAM, then you could say, for example, working with data. I know one of my skills is working with data, for example, and in order to work with data, I know how to work with data, for example, in Excel, in Shell, Powershell, in R, in Python, for example, then you could say computer skills, you know how to work with, for example, Latch hos Wiz, and for example, Microsoft Office. Then you can mention something like operating systems, You can say Windows, you work with Windows, Linux, for example, if you have worked with McIntosh, you can write it down. Probably if you worked in the mathematical programming background, you know some libraries, for example, Ciplex, you can say Slip Solb for performing sensitivity analysis. And finally, you could name some soft skills like creativity. TVT. Adaptability time Oops. Adaptability. Sorry, time management. Problem solving, teamwork, detail oriented. You can say project management, for example. These are some soft skills that you have, for example. So looking at this, you see how different it is to just mention one of my skills is machine learning. One of my skills is sensitivity analysis, or I know programming. I know how to work with data. So these are very generic information. You definitely would like to avoid them. In order to have a very good CV, it's important to consider writing details. Now by looking at this section in my CV or anyone's CV, you can easily grasp. Okay, this person knows operations research, and within that domain, the person knows milk formulation, zero vangle programming, methahurisic algorithms, heurisic algorithms, constrat programming. Then the person knows sensitivity analysis, specifically one factor at a time, food factorial, Anova, Maurice, and Sobol. Then also, there are some skills in programming that this person is carrying C plus plus, Python and GAMS. I know that this person knows how to work with data in R, but R is not one of his strengths because he didn't mention in the programming languages section. So this is how we need to provide our skills section to make a significant impression on the CV reviewer because you're not the only one and you need to be competitive. So this is very important. Thank you for watching. 10. Grants and Funding: Hello, everyone. Welcome back. Now we're going to discuss about grants and funding. It's also another important section of CV. So let's get started. Here, we could simply use bullet points or we could add a table. So just for the sake of variety, I add one table here. That has, like, two rows. In the first row, I'm going to grant title. Then funding agency role grant amount, duration, project, description, outcome or impact, okay? So this is how we could write our grant and funding because it's an important section of the CV, and we need to make sure that everything is clear. We come to layout and we make it nice. And then you start filling this table, like you can easily add another row, for example, another row below, okay? So here, for example, it's important for one person in academia to be able to attract some money. In order to do that, you need to write a proposal, then it is going to go through some review process and eventually it is decided either you get it or not. For example, you can have several attracted grants, and it's very good because they say that, okay, this researcher that comes here, he does research, he does teaching, and he can attract some money. He can attract some money. So the grant title could be anything like mining, task, scheduling, for example, funding agency could be whatever, like National Foundation, of mining. I'm just making it up just to mention something. You role is also important. So you can be either, for example, principal investigator. You can be co principal investigator or you can be collaborator, if you're principal investigator, we just write down PI, we talk about the grant amount, it's like $150,000, for example, then the duration is there. We write down, for example, 2021, 2024, very short explanation like design algorithms to enhance scheduling performance, for example. And then when we write down the outcome, we can say, we can say secure secure collaboration with industry partner, for example, or we can say published two journal papers or you can say presented findings at findings at three international conferences. So this is one way to show the funding. Also, you can show it like bullet points. You can just simply write it in one line. It's your call. But just for the sake of variety, I wanted to mention it to be so it's something like this. And then to save some space, maybe you can do something like this. For example, so you can have some space for the descriptive parts like here. Yeah. And then you add another grand, another grand until the end. Also, in the end, if you want one option could be to have a nicer table. You can simply just remove it and you only put the down line here. So it's nicer not to see many lines here, and then the next one and then the next one, something like this. It could be nice to have it also. But if you prefer this way, you can leave it this way. I think it has too many lines. So you can simply just keep this line and the last line. And in between the rows and between the columns, it's not necessary. So this is how you simply write your grants and funding, and it's a very important part of the CV because they mentioned that someone who is in academia need to be able to not only do high quality research, but also have high quality teaching experience. But these procedures need some money to be attracted to the university and professors at university, or many researchers, research associate, postdoctoral researchers or lecturers, they need to be able to attract some money for the university through these grants and funding. So this section will show that you also have this potential to grab some money and to bring some money in. So it's a very good point if you have some grants attracted, it would be nice to write them here and emphasize on them specifically with your role. Thank you for watching. 11. Conferences and Presentations: Hello, everyone. Welcome back. In this section, we're going to discuss conferences and presentations. So generally speaking, it's important to participate in different conferences, and whether you're going to just listen or you're going to present your work, it's important to participate in conferences and be in touch with the community, start networking, et cetera. When you have participation in conferences, it's a plus. It's a benefit for your CV, because when you see many job advertisement out there in academia, they usually mention that actively participation in conferences is appreciated. So it shows that when you have conference presentation or participation, it shows that you've got enough motivation to get in touch with the community. You follow up other people's work, the new research trend, and you would like to present your work, and you're excited about doing this. So it's a positive sign, and many job advertisement in Academia is highlighting this point. So it's important to participate in conferences, even if you are not going to present. However, if you have some presentation, it's even better. So in this section, there are two main categories that we need to discuss. First is the participation and the second one is the presentation. So let's start with the presentation. I would say presentations. Then here you're going to name the conference and where you presented your work. For example, I opened my Google discolor account here, and this is a paper I presented in a conference. So this is the name of the paper that I presented, and this is the name of the conference, and this is the website of the conference. So this conference was named AF International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, or the abbreviation is MT ITS 2023. And it was held 14-16, June 2023 in Nice France. So the best way would be to name the conference and provide the details. I copy this information and paste it here, and also add a few more lines to it saying that 14 16, June 2023, Nice friends. Okay. And here is the website of the conference. So I we click on it, push the link button, and paste it, so it's a hyperlink. So they can easily click on it and go and see the conference, see where you present it, okay? And there are usually some photos of the conferences that you can get afterwards from the conference chair. Or you can ask a colleague or a friend to take some photos from you while you're doing your presentation. So it would be nice if you have some photos from yourself. You can push it simply write down C photos here. Okay? And when you have this, you upload all of your presentation photos while you're discussing your problem in different slides. You upload them in Google Drive and provide a link to that. And here see photos here, you highlight it, you hyperlink this the link of the Google Drive to this place. So by one click, they can also see you presenting there. It's further validation that is much appreciated if you go down to these details. Also if you have, for example, presentations, you can put it here, name different conferences, for example, and the other one is participation. So the participation part could be like you name another conference, like I would just say then ninth international conference operations research, let's say. It's just an example 15-18, September 2024, for example, Montreal, Canada, and you can say see photos here. And although you didn't present, but you participated in conference, that you can provide some photos of yourself being in the conference, participating, following up, listening to the lectures. This is the second part that you're going to put for the participation, and you can, of course, add more. Here, one information that could be beneficial is that you can add more information here, you can say presented, you name the work, for example, presented this paper presented, let me just put it here so you can easily see, presented paper at, and then you are naming the conference. So this way, you're also showing what you were talking about, what you presented. This is a very nice way to provide conferences and presentations details. And as I mentioned earlier, it's an important section. If you participated and presented somewhere in the conferences, it's important to mention it even if it was not an international conference, but it was an internal conference within your university or it was a department meeting that you were presenting. You can simply provide links to that, saying that presented one topic that you presented, and you can say the department meeting at University of CustavaEFL for example, put the dates and the photos. So it's important to show that you have active participation in these activities and you are giving some presentation and lectures about your recent papers and research. It's a nice section that if you have some information for that, it would worth considering. Thank you for watching. And if you haven't had the chance to rate this course yet, please go ahead and do so. And if you have some constructive comments, it is much appreciated. It would help us to improve the lectures for future students. Thank you very much. 12. HonorsAndAwards: Hi, and welcome back. Now we're going to focus on the sections called honors and awards. So we just make it heading two, or bolt. So here we would like to discuss honors or awards throughout your career. If you have won some prizes like Best Paper Award or something like this, or you have been chosen for the top student at your graduating class, graduating year, for example, this is a place where you need to put the information. Would suggest putting the information in the table, so it would be easier for the reader to follow up everything. So we start with the award and award honor title, then organization or the institution, year and description. For example, we could say Best Paper Award. And the organization that gave you this prize, for example, would be like international conference on operations research, for example. And the year was, for example, 2022 and a brief description discussing what this award was about, like, recognized for presenting the most impactful research, paper and optimization in transportation systems. So this way, you can present your work, and saying that, you got recognized in a conference, and it can highlight your ability to be competitive in different conferences, for example, or different places, for example, you could add here another part like you could mention for example, you could mention like outstanding teaching awards, for example, from university like University of Saw EFL in 2023. And you could say recognized for exceptional teaching performance and innovative methods in operations research courses. So these are the types of prizes or awards or honors that you're very proud of. You can put here. We can add another row here, like early career researcher researcher award, for example, for example, saying that you got it from Canadian Operational Research Society, and you got it in 2020. Let me just put it like 2021, and then you can say, awarded for significant contributions to the field of operations research within the first five years Sorry, years of career. Okay? So this way, you can provide this way you're putting everything you need to be proud of here. And also, you first put the last one and then the one to last one, two, to the last one, et cetera. And it would be nice if you have some photos or links to hyperlink here. For example, if there is a web page online saying that this award is given to you or was given to you, you can always hyperlink that like best paper award, you click right on it and put the link here. And for example, if this is a very reputable conference, for example, or a very reputable society like this one, scientific society. You can hyperlink the website of them as well. And then here awarded for a significant contribution to the field of operations research, you probably got a certificate from them saying that you awarded this award. So you can also provide a scan of that certificate uploaded in your Google drive, for example, and hyperlink here, so easily they can verify this information that you're putting here. So it's nice to have this section, and it's a very good section and useful section to show that your work has been attracted some attention to it, apart from the citations that you have that we discussed in the first section. So here, it shows that your research attracted some attention from the community, but also here, it shows that your work is valuable and it is attracting some awards, et cetera. So it's important if you have something to mention here, it would be important to mention it here. Thank you for watching. 13. Certificates and training: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to this video. In today's lecture, we're going to discuss certificates and training. So let me just make it heading two, then bold it. Okay. So basically, if you have many certificates and many training that you would like to include here, you can do it in a table. It would be easier to do it in a table, and it would be more nice and let's say, it would be more concise. However, if you have a few like two, three, you can just do it using bullet points. So I'm going to make it like a bullet point first and then a table. So you can start by simply writing a bullet point here, certificate name. You can say, for example, project management pro fonal it's a very important certificate within the project management domain. Certification. You have it, for example, you can say issuing organization organization, it's project management institute or PMI. Then you have the completion date. It will be November, for example, 2024, location, you can say, you did the test online, for example, or physically, and then description, a very short description, you can say comprehensive training and certification. Covering the PM Bk framework, sorry, covering the PM bock, framework, focusing on project planning, execution and team leadership, for example. So if you have 23 certificates, you can do this. And in order to distinguish the titles, you can always bold them, for example, Yeah. So you can do it like this or you can have a table like this, for example, certificate, name, issuing, organization, completion date, location, and description. Okay? So this you could have just make it a bit nicer. Okay. Now we can bold it. We make it here. Okay. So here I could say PMP, for example, PMI, you can say November 2024, then the location you did it online, short description. You can say comprehensive training. Training and certification recovering the PMB, for example, okay? So you can always add a new row here you can discuss another one. Another, you can say C plus plus, and you had it on remi, you could say October October 2024, it was online, and you can say basics of C plus plus programming including data types, library functions if seis. Don't dive into the details for this part for this column. Simply just write down whatever you want to write down here. So when you have a lot of them, you can simply see that it would be nice to have a table rather than just bullet points. If there are ten of these certificates that you would like to include and are relevant for the position that you're applying for. This is one thing and another thing would be nice to have your certificate, again, hyperlinked to display. So you can upload your certificate online on your Google Drive and then highlight this part and just push the link button and put the address here. And then when you put the address here, anyone who is reaving your CV, they can simply click on it and actually see and verify that yes, this person is having this certificate. It's important because you can you can put any information in your CV without claiming it. You can claim many things without, you know, without it being true. So in order to make sure that everything is correct and they can easily verify that you're telling the truth, it's very nice to use hyperlinks. Thank you for watching this video. 14. Referee acitivity and membership: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another lecture. In today's lecture, we're going to focus on a referee activity and membership. So let's just start. And memberships, then I would put the heading two here, and then make it bold. Okay. So these are typically two separated sections in CV. However, I think it would be beneficial to merge them together. It's your call. You can make them separated, but I think it's okay. So first, let's talk about the referee activity. So when we are discussing the referee referee activity, then, for example, we can simply mention transportation science. It means that you perform some review for this journal. This is a very reputable journal. So you just name the journals that you perform the referee activity there and you can say transportation research, Part C, for example, transportation, research, Part D, Journal of cleaner production, for example, and you list all the names of the journals that you perform the referee activity for, and it's a very concise part. It's not a huge part of your CV. Usually, you just mentioned that you performed a referee activity for these journals, and then we can shift to memberships. So here, we can firstly discuss the name of the organization name. For example, you can mention Canadian operational research society. And then so you had the membership of this society, and then you discuss your membership type. Like you can say membership type. You can say you were only a member, for example, then you can say the duration. It's 2018-2020. And you can say, for example, key activity. There are different things that you can mention here, you can say participating in annual meeting organizing the conferences or there are different things that you can write down here. And then when you're done, you go for the other memberships. For example, you can say informs, it's a huge and very well known organization for operations research and generally management science. In the United States, you can mention that here again, and then you will discuss again memberships membership type, sorry, membership type. You can say, I don't know, for example, editor or chair or something like this, then you can discuss the duration. You can say 2020 to present, for example, and then key activity, you can mention like participate in annual meeting. Or you can say, for example, serving as an editor of abstract submissions, for example, these are different things that you can mention. So basically, it's important to discuss the activity, the duration, and the membership type within each bullet point for membership section. And also for the referee activity, as we discussed earlier, generally, when you're doing academia, you generally perform a lot of review for many journals, many conferences. So you don't need to specifically mention what you did in transportation science, for example, or Transportation Part C. If you had something beyond the review activity for these journals, you can shift them to the professional experience that we had earlier in this course. But if you only perform the reviews, you just name the journals, and I think that's enough. So try this section and remember that you can divide them into two sections. But because the first section, the referee activity is usually short. And even if you want to simply name 20 journals, it would take three or four lines. It's like one paragraph. So you can merge it to another section which is the membership, so you can be more concise and it would increase the readability of your CV. Thank you for watching. 15. Patent: Hello, Evan. Welcome back to another lecture. Today we're going to discuss patent section. So if you don't have any patent, it's okay. You can just escape this video. But if you have some patents, it would be nice to include them in your CV showing that you are active in your field and you had some patternts in your field. It's nice, generally speaking. So in order to add patents, there are certain things that we need to consider. The first thing would be the title. So what is the title of your patent? For example, these are just examples and they're just random information I'm giving you just for you to have a template, knowing how to put your data in this template. Okay? For example, mining operations using constraint programming. Okay? So this is the name of the patent. And then I discuss the details like patent number, I would say US 12 like three, four, five, six, seven, eight, like B two, something like that. And again, this is just a random number. I'm just providing you with the with a template, so you can have a template for yourself to discuss to put your information and content there. Then you have filling organization. You can say United States, Patent and Trademark Office or simply US PTO. And then you would have the inventors, like you can say Reza Shahin and your colleagues, your co worker, then you have a quick description of what this pattern is about. Like, you can mention developed a novel optimization framework, leveraging constraint programming to enhance resource allocation scheduling in underground mining operations, okay? So this is something, it would be something like this generally that you have this information. Let me just make them bold, so it's easier for the reader to trace. So again, then you can have another patent and another patternt. You can add them. You can also, if you have ten patents or more, it's nice to put it in a table, something like the previously discussion. Sections like the certificates and training. It's nice to have them. If you have more than five or ten patterns. But if you have a few, two, one, two, three, it's okay to put them in bullet points. I think it's nice to put it this way, and it would have a clear understanding when you're putting the bullet points because first, you're doing the tile and then the details, then a tile, and then another detail. So they can easily see, Okay, this person is having two, three patterns. And then, you know, going with tab, you're going to inner bullet points that would help the reader to understand the details of each one of the patterns that you're having. Thank you for watching. 16. References: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another video. In this video, we're going to discuss references. So what are the references? Usually, when you apply for an academic position, you need to have some recommendation letters. In order to have recommendation letters, you need to ask some of your previous manager of you or your supervisors, people who you work with, et cetera, these people could act as references. So for example, I'm applying for a PhD, and it's important to put two, three references in the reference section of my CV. One of them should be probably my supervisor. The other one could be my co supervisor during my master thesis. And also maybe you're a teaching assistant or a research assistant of another professor at your university. You can put the person's name also in the references and in case the hiring university would like to get in touch with them, they can easily find them through your reference section. Also, these people, it's nice to show how you are related to these people. For example, in reference list, you can name the people who you published paper already and you remember if we had a section called publications. There, there are some people that your colleagues that you publish with them. So these people also can be some of your references. It's important to have some relation with them. Otherwise, just putting random names there wouldn't work. So I would say, for example, this is just an example. So let's make a bullet point here. I would say Reza Shahin PhD. And then I would write the affiliation. For example, assistant professor Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, University of Polytechnique, Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Then you need to provide the email address of this person as well, you would write something like email, Reza in 1990 two@gmail.com. So they know how to get in touch with this person. So I would make this part Italic, so it's distinguishable. And generally, if you write down somebody's name here, if they search this name throughout your CV, they should probably find this person as your supervisor in the education section or as one of the co authors for you in the publication section. So there should be some relevancy of this person and you try to write someone who you named before in your civil. Like, as I mentioned, in your education, maybe he or she was your supervisor or the person was someone who you published with. Or while you were describing your professional experience, this person was your manager, for example. There you can mention Let me go above. So here in the education, we have supervisor, doctor X, for example, or co supervisor, doctor Y, doctor Z, for example. So they should either find your references here, or when you're having the professional experience, you can add simply your manager here as well. So who you work with, and that person could be your supervisor or when you're having your, for example, teaching experience, you can also add the name of the professor that you were working with and you were serving as a teaching assistant for that person. For that professor, you name the person, and then you put in the references. Or you can in the publications, for example, you see this is your name, for example, there are other people who work with you in the paper. You can also mention these people's names generally in the reference section. So then another person, then another person, it's nice to have up to five relevant people who would be able to write you recommendation letters in case you need one, or they can answer to any email that the hiring university might direct them. For example, if you write four people's name and affiliation here, please let them know that you wrote their name and affiliation in your reference section of your CV. So in case they are being asked some questions from the hiring university about you. They already know why they are receiving an email about you and and you make sure they are willing to respond because it's very important that you have some people here that are willing to respond in case they are being contacted with. So this is a very important section. I would say it's one of the most important part of your CV. And try to get in touch with people, build networks, and have some names here that are nice. And one thing that you can also mention here is that when you're having the name of the reference, it's nice to have their Google scholar or Scopus profile hyperlinked to this text. So you right click, as we mentioned, you put the link here. So basically, when you're having different references, they might be known in your country, in your department or in your university. However, when you're applying in another continent, this person might not be very well known. So by providing a Google Scholar hyperlink, they can easily, see this person's profile and see if this person who this person is, that is willing to write you a recommendation letter or who this person is that you referenced in your reference section of your CV. It's an important matter, I think. So please go ahead and do that and don't let the hiring university or your potential future supervisor start googling their names to find who these people are. It's nice to provide whatever the detail you can in your CV. So let's do that. Thank you for watching this video.