Tips from Search Committee Members: How search committees read and evaluate CVs

It's been a number of years since this blog has had any new series on job-market tips, such as our Job-Market Boot Camp and Notes from both sides of the market series. Given that these past series mostly involved me and other authors sharing our impressions on various job market materials, interviews, etc., they didn't necessarily provide a representative picture of how different search committee members at different types of institutions see these things.

So, in this new series, Tips from Search Committee Members, I'd like to rectify this. In today's post, I'd like to ask search committee members to answer some or all of the following questions:

1. How do you read a CV?
2. Which things do you look for first? Why?
3. Which things do you lend the most weight in deciding who to interview?
4. Which sorts of things do you mostly pass over?
5. Which sorts of things have you encountered in CVs that produce a negative impression?
6. What type of institution do you work at? (R1? R2? Highly-selective SLAC? Non-highly selective SLAC? Community College?)

Finally, if there are any other questions you think are worth addressing not listed here, please feel free to volunteer and answer them. Really curious to hear your answers!