I was reading this post about CVs on Doug's Archaeology site, its one of two good posts Doug has written on CVs, the other one is here. I wrote an article back in 2010 for the Diggers' Forum on CVs and thought I would repost it here, its a rough guide to archaeological CVs, plus how to get hired without the magical '6 months of commercial experience'. It was originally published in the Forum Dispatch Issue 5.
Professional archaeology is still a small world where most people will know someone who knows you, but the days of getting jobs down the pub and by word of mouth are (mostly) gone. This article gives some advice for the those looking for site work. It is primarily intended for those at the start of their career but the advice is just the same for old lags struggling to cope with the baffling world of email applications and HR forms.
Integrating excavation and analysis on urban excavations
Text of presentation to CAAUK 2013, video of the presentation is available on Doug's Archaeology blog HERE.
This paper is from the
perspective of an archaeologist who works principally on urban sequences, I am
neither a technophile nor a complete Luddite, but Guy [Hunt, Partner at LP: Archaeology] felt it would be good to
get a digger’s input into the debate.
I wrote the initial abstract
after a conversation with Guy, and as with all things it has evolved into
something more or less completely different. What I’d like to talk about is
some of the issues around technology on site –from a fieldworker’s perspective-
using London as an example, and with a case study of where we have been
successfully using new technology.
First off I think its worth
giving a brief run down of London’s archaeological landscape –in terms of how
we excavate and analyse our sites:
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