Curriculum Vitae and Officer

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Curriculum Vitae and Officers Statement Tips
and Telling Your Story

• CAPT Jason Woo
• CDR Dan Brum

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Agenda

• Curriculum Vitae
• Who looks at your CV?
• Helpful resources
• Recommendations
• Officers Statement

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Who looks at your CV?

• Promotion board members
• ROS, OS, PIR, COERs, CV
• Hiring officials / interviewers
• Others e.g., PACs, working groups

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Who else might you ask to look at your CV?

• Family member or friend
• Mentor
• (Senior) officer volunteers
• Professional resume and CV writing service

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Resources (1)

• Sample CV Template on PharmPAC website is updated
• E.g., Pharmacy
• http//www.usphs.gov/corpslinks/pharmacy/sc_caree
  r_guidance.aspx

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Resources (2)

• Category promotion precepts
• performance (40)
• progression (25)
• edu/training (20)
• officership (15)
• readiness (0)

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Document your accomplishments

• The category promotion benchmarks guidance states
  repeatedly that accomplishments should be
  documented in your CV

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Recommendations (1)

• Follow the CV template
• Consider the promotion precepts
• Update your CV (living document)

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Recommendations (2)

• Proofread Be meticulous
• Remove outdated or irrelevant items
• One page cover sheet

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Recommendations (3)

• Make prominent important information
• First-line supervisor for 10 employees
• Directly manage a 15 million budget
• Meritorious Service Medal for
• Emphasize career highlights but
• Use bold, italics, underline sparingly
• PHS Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) May 2013

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Recommendations (4)

• Be truthful
• If team effort, dont take all the credit
• Be consistent w.r.t. formatting
• Cultivate ideas but dont plagiarize
• Fax CV to eOPF periodically
• Fax [phone] or [phone]

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Highlights

• Use the template
• Know the precepts benchmarks
• The cover page is critical
• Highlight accomplishments and impact
• Proofread
• Less is sometimes more

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Less is more (Example 1a)

• PHS Outstanding Service Medal (2010) Exemplary
  performance in the
• PHS Commendation Medal (2009) Outstanding
  performance for the
• PHS Unit Commendation (2008)
• Yet another long citation

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Less is more (Example 1b)

• PHS Outstanding Service Medal (2010)
• PHS Commendation Medal (2009)
• PHS Unit Commendation (2008, 2007)

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Less is more (Example 2)

• USPHS Winds Ensemble, Percussionist (2005-10)
• 30 performances

• USPHS Winds Ensemble
• Played at Event A
• Played at Event B
• Played at Event C
• Played at Event D
• Played at Event E
• Played at Event F
• Played at Event G
• Etc.

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Less is more (Example 3)

• PLANT Workgroup, Writer (2005-10)
• Authored seven (7) mini-biographical sketches

• PLANT Workgroup, Writer (2005-10)
• Profile A
• Profile B
• Profile C
• Profile D
• Profile E
• Profile F
• Profile G

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Less is more conclusions

• Summarize where possible
• Emphasize key points (e.g., group leader, major
  contribution, measureable impact)
• Dont document the accomplishment until you
  have actually done it or qualify its status

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The CV Cover Sheet

• Mission to concisely summarize your CV and
  demonstrate your value
• Vision to provide Promotion Board Reviewers the
  story that articulates why you should be promoted

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Dos and Donts
Dos Donts
Use bullets that summarize your progressive growth Just be selective about bullets in your CV
Dont try to overstate your contributions less is more, especially if you are a junior officer Leave any Benchmark empty
Keep bullets less than two lines Use fancy font or italics
Pick your best highlights choose the high level achievements over quantity
Keep the presentation clean
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Officers Statement
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Officers Statement

• 1. Support of PHS Commissioned Corps activities.
• 2. Commitment to visibility as an officer.
• 3. Vision expectations of a career in the PHS
  Commissioned Corps, including commitment to the
  mission.

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Officers Statement

• Focus is on Commissioned Corps-related
  activities, responsibilities, visibility.
• Your CV can guide you
• Emphasize key points (e.g., group leader, major
  contribution, measureable impact) see previous
  recommendations regarding CV

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Officers Statement

• 1. Support of PHS Commissioned Corps activities.
• Examples Professional advisory committees, work
  groups, PHS choir/ensemble, preceptor/mentor,
  deployments/trainings, planning committees

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Officers Statement

• 2. Commitment to visibility as an officer.
• Wearing the uniform to work and various
  opportunities to be in the public like
  conferences, deployments, volunteer services when
  authorized

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Officers Statement

• 3. Vision expectations of a career in the PHS
  Commissioned Corps, including commitment to the
  mission.
• Thoughts Describe vision and expectations, and
  then support views with past actions or future
  plans

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Contact Information

• CAPT Jason Woo
• Food and Drug Administration
• W 240-276-8819
• Jason.woo_at_fda.hhs.gov
• CDR Dan Brum
• Food and Drug Administration
• W 301-796-0578
• dan.brum_at_fda.hhs.gov

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