I'm hoping faculty and advanced graduate students might answer this one for me. We are all afraid of people looking at our CVs and finding us "unproductive." And yet, many of our CVs don't look anywhere near as accomplished as we would like. How did your CV get to look that way? I ask because I think we tend to assume that "unproductive" folks are sitting at home watching TV or making unwise choices with their time. But how much of that kind of stuff accounts for unproductivity, and how much boils down to not being able to publish as expected, such that the "work" you do remains invisible to people looking at your CV. Not to insult anyone--not sure of how else to ask this question--but I just want to hear in-depth accounts of how under-developed CVs got that way, if only to demystify how we construct notions of productivity and unproductivity in this discipline.
What does "unproductivity" look like?
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I have a guy who mistakes someone else's cv as his, and uploaded unto website. I know this person well that he couldn't be cheating or joking.
I think a good sign is not updating one's CV. I always think it is a red flag when I see a year-old CV on someone's page unless it is a very senior person like Portes, etc.
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I have a guy who mistakes someone else's cv as his, and uploaded unto website. I know this person well that he couldn't be cheating or joking.
I think a good sign is not updating one's CV. I always think it is a red flag when I see a year-old CV on someone's page unless it is a very senior person like Portes, etc.One time I uploaded ManBear's CV to my website and it got me a cushy job and the brand new computer I am using today biaaaatches! Respect..!
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I'm hoping faculty and advanced graduate students might answer this one for me. We are all afraid of people looking at our CVs and finding us "unproductive." And yet, many of our CVs don't look anywhere near as accomplished as we would like. How did your CV get to look that way? I ask because I think we tend to assume that "unproductive" folks are sitting at home watching TV or making unwise choices with their time. But how much of that kind of stuff accounts for unproductivity, and how much boils down to not being able to publish as expected, such that the "work" you do remains invisible to people looking at your CV. Not to insult anyone--not sure of how else to ask this question--but I just want to hear in-depth accounts of how under-developed CVs got that way, if only to demystify how we construct notions of productivity and unproductivity in this discipline.
poor quality of pubs is as bad as unproductivity if you ask me. we recently denied tenure to a colleague with 6 articles. not a single one of those articles was worth anything. they were 4th author on the only main discipline journal article. and yes, they can keep yelling "but i have 6 articles!" but that doesnt at ALL tell the whole story