Columbia SIPA Resume/CV question

puma1552
Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:52:52 +0000

I’m working on my standard resume/CV for SIPA (MIA degree).

I’m working on the foreign travel section, and I have a couple questions. I have a main “Foreign Travel” heading, and subheadings for each country including dates, with travel experience listed in order starting with the most recent.

From there, under each country subheading, I mention what cities/places I traveled, and then proceed to highlight some of the main/interesting places/things I saw.

Is this appropriate, and what they are looking for? Most/all of my travel has been for sightseeing purposes, so a lot of it is just listing various famous attractions.

I’ve been to the border with North Korea, so my Korea section feels very solid describing the Joint Security Area and the DMZ, but at the same time the five weeks I spent traveling across Japan alone in 2007 and the resultant attraction sightseeing in thirteen cities is making for a drawn-out section that’s not nearly as interesting as the Korea section, and since there is so much (even just for highlights) I am just listing famous temples and stuff, without going into any detail about their significance. Is this ok?

What exactly are they looking for in terms of foreign travel?

Do they want to see what I’m doing, that being a listing of all countries/cities traveled to with some highlights in list format, or would they rather see much fewer highlights with a little more detail?

TIA.