Seth Godin is a remarkable marketer. His blog (which is one of my personal favorite blogs and I highly recommend subscribing to it) is a testament to his outside-the-box incredible thinking about more than just marketing.

Last March, he posted a blog entry titled “Why bother having a resume?”. While you may disagree with the practice that Seth recommends in his blog entry… conceptually, how would you stand out?

Of course, one of the important determining factors in getting hired as a researcher is a CV highlighting a number of publications. But in addition to a respectable publishing record, what else would a department chair, hiring committee, or a PI be looking for?

Would your CV/application stand out from the pile of other excellent CVs with equally respectable publishing record? How would you make it stand out? It’s not easy, but neither is accomplishing something remarkable.