Overview: Other Professional Experience

The Other Professional Experience sub-category is where any other professional experience, not yet already covered by the previous sub-categories, may be listed.

Each entry is listed by Title and Keywords. There is no restriction on the total number of entries you may add.

The text relating to the description of the Other Professional Experience is entered into the rich text Description / Comment field

Each Other Professional Experience entry requires at least a Title or Keywords to be entered. An assortment of relevant keywords can be entered in the Keywords field separated by space, comma or semicolon.

Existing entries may be edited / updated subsequently, if required, or deleted.  

Entries may be manually sorted into a logical order which will be used when generating CVs and displaying on websites.

Each subsequent entry on this page will be listed in a new row and will be displayed alternately in a blue / black font colour.  This formatting is only used within the eResearch Profile context and purely for ease of visual display of multiple entries.

Other Professional Experience procedures

Working with fields in this sub-category

Field types/fields

Description/field rules

Compulsory fields

  • All fields which are UCT compulsory fields are noted by *

  • All fields which are NRF compulsory fields are noted by *

  • If synchronisation with the NRF is required, completion of the National Research Foundation (NRF) fields is mandatory.  For more information, see: NRF funding overview (external link).

  • Note: Not all academics/researchers require synchronisation with the NRF

Free text fields

  • Title free text fields are restricted to 100 characters.

  • The NRF Summary text is restricted to 5500 characters.

  • Other free text fields are restricted to 500 characters and have no limit on type of character input.

Rich text fields

  • In rich text fields you may apply formatting to the text (bold / italics /underline / strikethrough / alignment / subscript / superscript / bullets / numbering / indentation / special characters).

  • There is no limit on the amount of characters you may enter in this field.

Check box

  • Check boxes are square selection options.

  • When selected, a check box contains a tick (check) mark.

  • When cleared, a check box is empty.

  • Clicking in the check box toggles the appearance of the tick (check) mark.

Keywords field

  • Keywords provide a way of assigning an assortment of relevant words to an entry.

  • Each keyword may be separated by a space, comma or semi-colon.

  • When creating a CV, the assigned keywords are displayed.

  • Keywords may contain a maximum of 100 characters.

See also: Overview: Working with fields in the Researcher Profiles module