CV of Failures

As a positive psychologist, I believe we can all learn from our failures and rejections. Presented below is my CV of Failures, a deliberate effort to transparently showcase my journey of being rejected almost all the time :-).

The idea is not mine. I drew inspiration from an insightful article by Melanie Stefan and several other academics who courageously shared this aspect of their professional paths. The list is based on memory and might not be complete (I tried to remember them)!

CV of Failures – Dandan Pang

_{Academic positions I did not get}

^{2021, Assistant Professor, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland}

^{2021, Professor, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland}

^{2020, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark}

^{2018, Postdoc Researcher, Stanford University, USA}

^{2018, Postdoc Researcher, University of Zurich, Switzerland}

_{Degree programs I did not get into}

_{Master in Psychology – University of Heidelberg | Free University of Berlin | University of Bochum | University of Jena | University of Konstance, Germany}

_{Bachelor in International Finance – Sun Yat-sen University, China}

_{Bachelor in Biology – Zhejiang University, China}

_{Entry/intern positions I did not get when I was a Master’s graduate}

_{ABB, Audatex, Apple, Audi, BASF, BCG, BMW, Deutsche Bundesbank, Global Launch Management, Helsana, ICUnet, KPMG, Roche, Siemens, SRF, Stadt Zürich, swatch, Swisscom, Swisslife, Unispital Zürich, Wesser und Partner}

_{Paper rejections from academic journals}

_Mindfulness

_{Journal of Positive Psychology}

_{Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes}

_{Work and Stress}

_{Journal of Vocational Behavior}

_{Journal of Career Assessment}

_{Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology}

_{Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology}

_{Social Psychological and Personality Science}

_{Research funding I did not get}

_{2024, Health and Well-being Project Call, Swiss National Science Foundation}

_{2023, Project Seed Funding “Humane Digitale Transformation”, BFH, Switzerland}

_{2023, Project Seed Funding “Caring Society”, BFH, Switzerland}

_{2022, Strategic Japanese-Swiss Science and Technology Programme, Swiss National Science Foundation}

_{2021, UniBE Initiator Grant, University of Bern, Switzerland}

_{2020, Branco Weiss Fellowship, Switzerland}

_{2020, PostDoc Mobility, Swiss National Science Foundation}

_{2015, Forschungskredit, University of Zurich, Switzerland}