COS Pivot provides the capability for you to update certain fields or areas of your profile. Updating your profile can increase the the quality of the funding matches recommended for you from the COS Pivot Advisor.
You can currently submit updates for the following fields:
- Name Email address(es)
- Webpages with publications
- Degrees
- Affiliations (both past and present)
- Other (this is an open text box that allows you to provide additional feedback that you cannot submit through the above fields, such as research interests)
- Upload a CV or publications list in .pdf, .doc., or .txt format.
To change or update your COS Pivot profile:
- Log in to your COS Pivot account.
- Click on your name (which is hyperlinked to your COS Pivot profile)
- Click the Update your profile link near the right of the screen.
- Clicking the Continue button will take you to the Scholar Feedback.
- Click any of the headers across the top and you can edit the relevant information for those specific areas of your profile.
- Follow the instructions for the information you are updating. Publication information can only be uploaded in a document saved as a .pdf, .doc., .docx or .txt file.
Documents submitted to your profile are indexed and searchable (as are webpages). Change submissions are editorially reviewed, there is an approximate two week turnaround time for the changes/updates you submitted to be viewable on your profile.