Thread of advice on econ job market CV's! Friends, please chime in to correct, augment, modify, etc. I'll use my CV (from when I was coming out of grad school) for examples. I got a ton of advice on it before I went on the market. Long thread - whew! 1/30
The general idea is to keep it clean and compact, to include all necessary stuff and get rid of unnecessary stuff, and to order it so the most important stuff is at the top. There is no page limit, but concision is nice. I don’t think anyone cares if it's Word or LaTeX. 2/30
My order: contact info; research & teaching interests; education; disseration; pubs; WPs & research in progress; grants; awards; research experience; teaching experience; presentations; workshops; service; prfsnl activities; coursework; other work exp; rfrncs; diss abstracts 3/30
Things you don't need to include: skills (Stata / Word / LaTeX - your work will show you have the skills you need); personal info (e.g. marital status); objective (it's obvious); hobbies (I think it's fun, some (@benconomics) think it's trivial); athletic accomplishments. 4/30
As @shermandorn said, include "stuff that you *want* discussed, whether or not you are in the room." 5/30
Regardless of your dream job, your research should be front and center, so you organize it so your papers are on the front page. More generally, order the sections in terms of importance. I don't see a good reason to have multiple CV's for different job types. 6/30
Formatting: make it consistent. Only one font. Consistent rules for caps (title vs sentence) & punctuation. Consistent rules for spacing: paragraphs should be single spaced; have a unified rule for spacing after headers & between lines. Also, have a friend check for typos. 7/30
Put a date somewhere on your CV! Preferably a header or footer that appears on every page. Well, a header on the first page looks bad. I also like to have page numbers. 8/30
Since sections will have listed items under them, use hanging indents (I didn't then, but do now; much nicer now!) and a small space (e.g. 6pt) between paragraphs to help visually distinguish between items. When possible, don't let a section break across a page break. 9/30
Contact info block: include your website and cell number, of course. Also include your citizenship; I didn't and an employer reached out gruffly 'cuz it's info they need. Research & teaching interests: fields you're plausibly connected to in order of strength of interest. 10/30 
Education in reverse temporal order. Dissertation name and cmte members. You'll give more detail later. It's nice to list all cmte members because if the CV reader knows one of them, they might reach out. 11/30
About listing your papers. I like having the titles on the front page and abstracts at the very end, to reduce clutter but still have them there for people who'd find it convenient. You might not have pubs, which is fine. If you do, brag! Make a separate section. 12/30
I like for pubs to be listed in bibliography form. If you have pubs that are not peer reviewed, make that clear. Papers that are accepted can be listed as "Forthcoming" - that's as good as published for us. 13/30
You can group working papers with pubs or with works in progress. Make clear which projects are advanced enough that there's at least a draft; denote as a working paper (linked on your website) or I use "(mimeo)" to indicate a rough paper exists & I can share it if you ask 14/30
If appropriate, put "(Under review)." No need to compulsively update your CV the moment a paper is rejected. For an R&R, say "(Revision requested)," and at this point in your career (and when you submit your tenure packet) you can put the journal; otherwise, I wouldn't. 15/30
Don't list projects that are only a fuzzy idea. Interviewers can ask about anything on the CV; you should be able to explain at least a solid plan. People differ in their comfort levels on this; definitely don't overclaim. 16/30
Later in your academic life, you'll be stricter about which projects to list; now I only list if I have a grant, have data, or if it's a theory paper have a rough draft. But for fresh PhD's, I think it helps to signal anything you have reasonable progress toward. 17/30
Grants and awards: I listed them separately, but they can be listed together. If it's a grant, make it clear whether internal or external to your school, and say the amount. Awards can include anything competitive; your dept's travel funding might not really count. 18/30
Research and teaching experience are good to have separate. For these and for other jobs, list your formal job title. I don't think anyone really cares who you've been an RA for and in what years; you'll delete that section after you get your post-PhD job. 19/30
Teaching experience is important to highlight; make clear which classes you were sole instructor for if any; list your average student rating in parentheses for each, even for TA gigs if you can. Even if it's not great! 20/30
Presentations: you can combine conf & seminar presentations; back then I included informal (even internal) brown-bag presentations, & maybe should have left them out, which I do now. Then I listed each pres on its own row, tho for compactness didn't give pres title. 21/30
Now I just do a block for each year, which is much more compact; people don't care about most of the details, e.g. conf location. You can list future presentations as "(planned)." Honestly, I don't think presentations matter much on the CV - don't sweat it. 22/30
You might have some idiosyncratic stuff that you don't know where to put; I put workshop participation as a separate section for some workshops I'd been in; could've grouped them with conferences but I didn't present at all of them; could've left them off entirely; meh. 23/30
I put service next. I'm a service princess; I do a ton of it, and even did then. It's great, but nobody really cares much, as far as I can tell, on the PhD job market. If you don't have a service section, that's fine; no need to stretch to find stuff to put in it. 24/30
Professional activities: I included refereeing and memberships here. I don't think anyone cares about your memberships in professional organizations; why do we all put them on our CV's? 25/30
Selected coursework: I listed courses I took outside the PhD core. Lots of people don't have this section. I wanted to signal, e.g., that I could teach I/O since I took some I/O classes in grad school. Include or leave off, to your taste. 26/30
Other work experience: some people group RA work together with other jobs they had as a "work experience" list. I did it this way because I had another career before becoming an economist. 27/30
For me, these are non-econ jobs so not professionally relevant, but I wanted to account for the "lost years" in my education. Now I don't think anyone cares much about lost years, but I know it makes them curious. So you can list or not list, to your taste. 28/30
Then references with full contact information. Then dissertation abstracts at the very end. And that's it! 29/30
Do update your CV as stuff evolves over job market season, and keep the updated version on your website. And it's nice to keep your CV updated regularly for your whole professional life - lots of people will drop by your website to peek at it. 30/30
