• What Is Curriculum Vitae?
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Curriculum vitae (CV) - Resume
• CV is a Proposal. Therefore, it is a selling document.
Proposal
• A proposal is a formal suggestion or invitation from one party
to another.
• It can also be defined as a plan detailing how a particular
business transaction is going to be carried out or effected.
• Therefore, it:
• Examines what may happen in the future
• Aims mainly to persuade the reader to make a specific
decision
• Expresses opinions supported by objective facts
REQUIREMENTS OF A GOOD PROPOSAL
It must:
- convince the client
- be persuasive
- be informative
- be marketable
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• What format is appropriate for my
Curriculum Vitae?
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Format of a CV
1. Name & contact information
2. Personal Statement (if any)
3. Academic History starting from the highest
(with dates)
4. Certificates & Awards (with dates)
5.Professional/work experience (with dates)
6.Publications (if any)
7.Conferences attended (if any)
8.Additional training (if any)
9. Membership of a professional body (if any)
10. Extra Curricular Activities
11. Referees with their contact addresses and
numbers (must be 3 people)
12. Signature & date
• PERSONAL DATA
Name:
Date of Birth:
Home Address:
Nationality:
Marital Status:
• INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED WITH DATES
University of Education, Winneba 2019 - 2023
Winneba Senior High School
Uncle Rich Preparatory Junior High School
• QUALIFICATIONS (WITH DATES)
B.A. English, First Class (Hons) 2023
Senior Secondary Certificate
Basic Education Certificate
• CERTIFICATES & AWARDS
• I was crown Face of ASSENS, a Beauty Pageant
titled Face of ASSENS: Beauty with Brains and
Attitude – Pride Redefined on 28 July, 2023
• I attended SRC UEW chapter organised
Conference titled Promoting Development
through Collaborative and Quality Research in
Education held at North Assembly Hall UEW: 27
– 28 July, 2023
EMPLOYMENT/WORK HISTORY
• As a teenager, I worked as a nanny to my aunts
during school holidays from 2000 – 2003
• I worked as a shop keeper in my uncle’s grocery
shop from 2006 – 2009
• I occasionally volunteered as a caregiver to the
aged in my community hospital from 2010 – 2013
• I was the Course Representative of my class
during my 4 years in the university at the
University of Education, Winneba: 2018 – 2022
PUBLICATIONS
Israel, P. C. (2022). Sentential styles in students’ writing. Kampala International University
Journal of Humanities ISSN: 2415-0843; 7(2)
Israel, P. C. (2022). Communicative competence in discourse: A universal pragmatic analysis
of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s Update No 26: Measures taken to combat spread of
coronavirus. International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics 5(1), 69-85. DOI:
10.52589/IJLLL-GID94V3K.
CONFERENCES ATTENDED
• AfPCon2022: The 2nd African Pragmatics Conference: Nairobi, Kenya, February 2-4,
2022: Communicative Competence in Discourse: A Pragmatic Analysis of President Nana
Akufo-Addo’s Update No 26: Measurers Taken to Combat Spread of Coronavirus
• 4th School of Languages Conference (SOLCON IV) 3 -5 November, 2021, University of
Ghana, Legon: Sentential Styles in Students’ Writing.
• International E-Conference on Covid-19 Global Impacts: 20 – 21 July, 2020.
• 35th Annual National Conference of English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria, at National
Open University of Nigeria, Abuja, September 16 – 19, 2019: Using Reader Response
among Tertiary Students in Two ESL Countries
• ADDITIONAL TRAINING
I have skills in:
• dress-making
• Knitting
• baking of pastries
• MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL/LEARNED BODIES
• International Society for Development and Sustainability
(ISDS)
• The African Pragmatics Association
• Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN)
• Linguistic Association of Ghana (LAG)
• International Reading Association (IRA)
• Reading Association of Nigeria (RAN)
• EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• Watching Movies, Swimming and Travelling
• REFEREES
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• Signature: Date: 2 August, 2023
