What Should I Put on My Vita?


1. Personal Info
- Name
- Phone Number
- Address (Current)
- Address (Permanent)
- Email address

2. Education
- School attended
- Major + GPA
- Minor + GPA
- Certificates / endorsements earned
- Cumulative GPA
- Last 2 years GPA

3. Research Experience
- Who you've worked with
- When you worked with them
- A short synopsis of your duties

4. Personal Research Interests
- 5-8 topics that you are interested in researching while in grad school.

5. Publications
- Articles that you are listed as an author on that have been published
- Journal published in
- Brief Description of what the study was about

6. Presentations
- Titles of presentations that you've given at conferences
- Name of conference that you presented at
- Date you presented
- Brief description of what your presentation was about

7. Teaching Experience
- Classes you've been a TA for
- Professor you worked with
- Time range of TA time (e.g., Fall 2001)
- Brief description of what your duties were

8. Relevant Course Work
- Classes you've taken that apply to the area that you want to pursure
- Grade earned in that class
- Term you took that class

9. Computer Skills
- Statistics programs you know how to use
- Word processing programs you know how to use
- Presentation programs you know how to use
- Spread sheet programs that you know how to use

10. Honors and Awards
- Honor Societies you're a member of
- Undergraduate honors program
- Scholarships / fellowships you've received
- Dean's List (included all semesters you were on it)

11. Relevant Leadership Experiences
- Psychology club involvement
- Student Government
- Student Advisory Boards
- Fraternity / sorority involvement
- Resident Hall leadership positions

12. Volunteering Experience
- Tutoring / Mentoring
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Red Cross / United Way
- University Committees

13. Professional Organization Membership
- American Psychological Association (Student affiliate)
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Student Affiliate)
- Society for Personality and Social Psychology (Student affiliate)
- Any other specialized organizations


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