I was involved in the development of NOR-CAM (Norwegian Career Assessment Matrix) a couple of years ago (see former blog post). If you want a quick introduction, here is a short video I have recorded to introduce the main concepts:

Here is the illustration of the matrix in the NOR-CAM report:

a series of photographs showing a building with a clock

Formatting my own CV

In the report, we emphasized that the main point is the concept, and the details need to be worked out. But how would that work in practice? To do as I preach, I have now attempted formatting my own CV according to the NOR-CAM principles. To make it browseable, I have used collapsible menus for each of the six main categories:

a large number of different colored signs on a white paper

Then it is possible to open each of these two to get more information:

a large white advertisement for a magazine

This is only a manual test so far. Ideally, there will be proper systems in place to “automagically” handle much of the relevant information that should go into the CV. The individual academic would then use the automatically collected content as the basis for what to include and add reflections on relevant topics. That is for the future, however. I hope this manual test can inspire the development of such an automagic CV system!