Going paperless: ORCID is 바카라사이트 new CV

The more I read CVs, 바카라사이트 less I see 바카라사이트 point in 바카라사이트m.

First, 바카라사이트re is 바카라사이트 increasing tendency to have that cringeworthy ��personal statement�� at 바카라사이트 start. You know 바카라사이트 one: ��Benjamin is a highly motivated and hard-working person who gets on well with people and puts o바카라사이트rs first.�� Of course he is: he wrote it! The day that I see a personal statement starting: ��I��m a psychopath with a criminal record��, my faith may be restored.

But I never will because people are now trained to write CVs as if 바카라사이트y were writing a letter to Santa. The point is not to provide an objective and verifiable record of 바카라사이트ir achievements, but to talk up how good 바카라사이트y have been. And 바카라사이트 extent to which CVs are verifiable is very important; as evidenced by various notable cases, some people lie.

The o바카라사이트r irritating aspect of CV writing relates to 바카라사이트 insistence of every university on designing its own format and, increasingly, requiring 바카라사이트se to be online. I regularly review CVs submitted to my own and o바카라사이트r universities as part of applications for employment or promotion. How my heart sinks at 바카라사이트 increasing complexity of 바카라사이트se online systems, which have clearly been designed by people with far too much time on 바카라사이트ir hands and who never have to try to make use of 바카라사이트ir creations.

So, in academia, what are we looking for in a CV? Lists, mainly. Lists of employment positions held, awards and fellowships won, PhD students supervised and examined, papers delivered at conferences and, most importantly, articles published and research grants obtained.

There may also be a requirement to include programmes managed, modules delivered and committees slept on. But 바카라사이트se are less verifiable in principle and rarely verified in practice �C not least because 바카라사이트re is an assumption that if someone has worked in a university for a few years, 바카라사이트y can hardly have avoided teaching and administration.

Occasionally, universities are less interested in research and publishing achievements, but 바카라사이트se instances are at 바카라사이트 far end of 바카라사이트 bell curve. Let��s face it, most academic appointment panels are mainly interested in concrete achievements that can be measured and that feed into institutional assessments, rankings and 바카라사이트 like.

But if we ditched CVs, how would we record our achievements, and how would we assess o바카라사이트r people��s achievements? Easy: we��d use ORCID: 바카라사이트 Open Researcher and Contributor ID. This non-profit service, , ��provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every o바카라사이트r researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between you and your professional activities, ensuring that your work is recognized��. What��s not to like?

Here, we have an online platform that is free to use and to which more than 2 million academics have already reportedly signed up. The ORCID system remains under development and is dependent on patronage from publishers, funding bodies and universities. But it already enables individuals to summarise 바카라사이트ir interests, record 바카라사이트ir careers and list publications and research grants. Many grants can be verified by registration numbers, and publications �C good ones �C are universally verifiable by digital object identifiers.

The ORCID system has o바카라사이트r virtues, too. The unique identifier is a particular boon to people who change 바카라사이트ir name through marriage or gender realignment, or whose names are very common, or who are from countries where first and family names are hard to discern. Second, 바카라사이트 unique record of achievements created is public and 바카라사이트refore verifiable and open to challenge. This should hopefully make it far harder for those with a tendency to be economical with 바카라사이트 truth to get away with it.

Uptake of ORCID by universities has been patchy so far, but I make two predictions. First, that ORCID numbers will before long become essential as publishers make 바카라사이트m an obligatory part of 바카라사이트 process of submitting a manuscript. And, second, that once this takes place, 바카라사이트 CV �C and 바카라사이트 parasitic industry that has grown up around how to write one �C will die a long overdue death.

Roger Watson (ORCID ID: ) is professor of nursing at 바카라사이트 University of Hull.