A PhD and doctoral candidate CV builder organised around what academic hiring and fellowship committees read first: dissertation and research, teaching assistantships, conference presentations, publications in progress, fellowships and awards, and technical skills. You fill a structured form and a clean CV builds live beside it.
How it works
An academic CV is content-led, not capped at one page, so the builder gives each scholarly signal its own section. Dissertation / research captures your topic, advisor, committee, and methods. Teaching assistantships lists the courses and responsibilities that show instructional experience. Conference presentations separates oral talks from posters with venue, location, and year. Publications (in progress) lets you list items with accurate status — in prep, submitted, under review, in press — and author position, including preprints. Fellowships & awards captures funding and honours, and technical skills rounds out your methods. A repeatable experience section covers research and lab roles, and education lists your degrees.
The right panel re-renders the CV as you type. Your draft auto-saves to local storage, and the Copy text and Download .txt buttons export a clean, parseable file.
Tips
Lead with your research — on an academic CV it defines you. Label every in-progress publication honestly and note first-author work, since committees scrutinise this. Include venue and year for every presentation, and do not omit funding: a competitive fellowship is strong evidence of promise.
Example
A fourth-year PhD candidate might lead with a dissertation on chromatin remodeling, name the advisor and committee, list two years of teaching assistantships, an EMBO oral talk and two posters, a first-author manuscript in prep plus a co-authored paper, and a Wellcome Trust studentship. The result reads as a productive, visible researcher rather than a thin one-page resume.