What Is the Resumé on Harzing.com and What Academic Career Resources Does the Site Offer?

The "resumé" on Harzing.com is Anne-Wil Harzing's own academic resumé — a personal career record hosted on her site, not a blank template or a job-application tool. If you are looking for a generic CV format, this is not it. If you want to see how an established academic presents her career, or you want the career resources that sit alongside it, the site is worth exploring. The resumé appears on the site's home page as one of its main sections, alongside her research programs and publications.

What the site actually contains

Harzing.com describes itself as the home of Anne-Wil's resumé, research programs, and publications, including her academic career guides and white papers. It also hosts several standalone resources:

• CYGNA Women in Academia pages
• The Journal Quality List
• Publish or Perish, software for citation analysis

The site's blog covers academic publishing, creating research impact, doing (international) research, academic etiquette, the Publish or Perish software, academic careers, gender in academia, and Positive Academia.

So the resumé is one entry point into a broader set of materials aimed at academics managing their careers and their publishing record.

Where to start if you are early career

The site states directly that if you are an early career academic, your best starting point is the Working in academia page. That page is described as a container page for all the site's resources related to working in academia: books, blog posts, videos, software, and more.

This matters because the site is not organized as a single linear course. The Working in academia page functions as an index, so you can find the format you want — a blog post, a video, or a book — rather than reading everything in sequence.

The career guides and white papers

The site hosts a book series titled Crafting your career in academia, described as career guides for various aspects of an academic career:

• journal publishing
• research diffusion through social media
• research impact
• promotion applications

Alongside these, the site publishes white papers. One example referenced on the home page is a white paper on the art of academic writing, which offers five perspectives: writing as sculpting, writing as drawing, writing as painting, writing as music, and writing as acting.

Tools and communities hosted on the site

These are separate from the resumé and the career guides, but they sit in the same place, which is useful if you are working on a promotion case or trying to present your citation record.

Blog posts that show how the resources are used

The featured posts on the home page illustrate the kind of practical material the site carries:

• "My academic career: a story in four seasons, eight failures, and four morals" — tells the story of the eight most significant failures in the author's academic career and outlines how each had unexpected upsides.
• "You finally made it to full professor, now what?" — on crafting an academic identity and sustaining it in retirement.
• "Your first publication – A roller-coaster ride with lots of ups and downs" — walks step by step through the emotional journey of getting a first publication published, and explains why rejections are often the norm rather than the exception.
• "Finding the pearls in your citation record" — shows how to use Publish or Perish to present an academic citation record to its best advantage: find the pearls, polish them, and string them into a necklace that presents your citation story effectively.

That last post is the clearest link between the site's tools and its career advice: the software is not presented as an end in itself, but as a way to build a case.

What to keep in mind

The resumé is a personal document, so treat it as an example of how one academic structures a career narrative rather than a form to fill in. The site's legal notice states that you may link to the website but should not copy content except for personal use, and that unless otherwise noted the site and its contents are © Anne-Wil Harzing 1997–2026. If you plan to reuse anything, check that notice first.

If your goal is to understand what academic publishing involves before you start, the site's publishing-related blog posts and the journal publishing career guide are the most directly relevant pieces. If your goal is to present your own record, start with the citation-record post and the Publish or Perish software it describes.