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The Benefits of Being Organized | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 hidden)
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by JHamblin on Tue Mar 02, 2004 at 05:16:22 AM PDT

Another benefit of being organized is, once you have a job, preparing your promotion binder. Now, me giving this advice is a bit specious, since I am not very organized. But at the very least, here's some advice I have (that I myself only kind of follow):
  • Save everything. Any time anyone sends you a positive letter (even if it's a cookie-cutter form letter), save it.
  • Keep your CV up to date. People will need to see your CV for various reasons on short notice. Don't wait until the end of the semeter to catalog all the good stuff you've done. Put it on there now.
  • Have some kind of system. (Note: A big pile on the corner of your desk is NOT a system.) Organize the stuff somehow. Even sorting the documents by semester and year is a good start. You don't want to look back at something a couple of years later and have no idea what it is.
  • Make this a priority. I myself am still a few years away from going up for promotion, so it's hard to think about putting "organizing my promotion stuff" on a "front burner", but it really is important. But, having said that, I admit that I probably won't get to it until the early summer.
So, even though I am a bit of a hypocrite for giving advice I don't even really follow... that doesn't make it bad advice. Promotion is important for all of us, and if you're organized, that will make you less insane when the time comes to assemble your binder (I hope).

JH



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