Comment by SeanLuke | Hacker News Reader

Comment by SeanLuke | Hacker News Reader

There's a problem with this CV: the publications are not numbered.

That's not just a nitpick. It's important. CVs grow to many pages of publications and when you apply for a job people will refer to your publication by number when discussing your CV with one another.

I do publication numbering like this:

    \usepackage{bibentry}


    %% cventry facility.  Use \begin{cventries} and \end{cventries},
    %% and in between you do \cventry[note]{bibkey}.
    %% Numbering will go across cventry values
    \newcommand\cventry[2][]{\item\bibentry{#2}.  {\bf #1}}
    \newcounter{cventryg}
    \setcounter{cventryg}{0}
    \newenvironment{cventries}{%
            \begin{enumerate}%
            \setcounter{enumi}{\the\value{cventryg}}}{%
            \setcounter{cventryg}{\the\value{enumi}}%
            \end{enumerate}}

> when you apply for a job people will refer to your publication by number when discussing your CV

Err, really? Seems to me like they would just say "the paper on wireless networks" or "the one about spreading stuff on blogs" like normal people.

It’s pretty common to have several papers on the same topic.

I'm surprised you say that. We tend to say "The paper from XXXX-YYYY" where XXXX is a year, and YYYY is a conference or journal.

Sure. But it's my experience in grant panels or promotion and tenure committees that someone says "yeah but what about the paper on X?" and someone else says "which one?" and the response is "publication number seventeen".

At any rate, numbering is de rigeur.

Well, that explains it. I'm far too junior to have been on any of those. And all of the hiring processes I've been involved with have come right out of grad school, or from a post-doc.

BTW, I forgot to mention that the model you proposed would work except that it's very common for someone up for a job to have multiple papers in the same conference. So you see it in citation but not in CVs.

>That's not just a nitpick. It's important. CVs grow to many pages of publications and when you apply for a job people will refer to your publication by number when discussing your CV with one another.

You'll be lucky if they give them a quick glance.

"Discuss them by number"? Only in academia or fantasy-land IMHO.

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