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A résumé (in North American English; also sometimes spelled resumé (the original French spelling) or resume) or curriculum vitć (in Commonwealth English; sometimes abbreviated to CV) is a document containing a summary or listing of relevant job experience and education, usually for the purpose of securing a new job. Often the résumé is the first item a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker, and therefore a large amount of importance is often ascribed to it.
Except for the
theatrical professions, including a picture is strongly discouraged in U.S.
CVs, as it would suggest that an employer would discriminate on the basis
of a person's appearance -- age, race, sex, attractiveness, or the like.
For academic CVs in the United States,
the oldest entries are generally listed first.
For non-academic employment in the U.S., the newest entries generally come
first.
The use of an "objective statement" at the top of the document (such as "Looking
for an entry-level position in xxx") was strongly encouraged in the U.S. during
the mid-1990s but fell out of favor by the late-1990s. It is not prevalent
elsewhere.
Listing of computer skills (such as proficiency with word processing software)
was a strong differentiator during the 1980s but was considered passé for most
professional positions by the 1990s.
In most circumstances, a chronological order is considered the norm but at
certain times in certain professions the preferred order was "functional" -
experiences clustered to illustrate a particular skill or competency. This
format may also be used by students who have not built a strong career but wish
to emphasize the skill acquired through education and internship.
Traditionally, resumes or CVs have been, like careers themselves, oriented
towards what a person has accomplished so far. In most contemporary career
consulting the trend is to fashion the document towards what that person can
accomplish in a particular job going forward. This is sometimes called a
Targeted Resume.
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Usage note
A curriculum vitć may be called a vita, but should not be called a curriculum
vita or a vitć; the former is ungrammatical Latin and the latter is nonsensical.
Different forms
In American English usage, a CV will include a comprehensive listing of
professional history including every term of employment, academic credential,
publication, contribution or significant achievement. In certain professions, it
may even include samples of the person's work and may run to many pages. In
contrast, a résumé is a summary typically limited to one or two pages
highlighting only those experiences and credentials which the author considers
most relevant to the desired position. CVs are the preferred recruiting tool for
academic and medical professions while résumés are generally preferred for
business employment.
In British English, CV is the standard term for what is called a résumé in
American English.
In most contexts, a résumé is short (usually one or two pages), and therefore
contains only experience directly relevant to a particular position. Many
résumés use precise keywords that the potential new employers are looking for,
are self-aggrandizing, and contain many action words. Résumés are rarely more
than two pages, as potential employers will typically not give that much time to
read for each applicant.
An exception is an artist's résumé, which may run longer as it will contain a
list of solo and group exhibitions (and will typically exclude any
non-art-related employment) which may be more or less extensive.
As with résumés, CVs are subject to recruiting fads. For example,
In German-speaking countries a picture is a mandatory adjunct to the CV.
Description of a Career (DOAC) is a format to share your curriculum on the
future semantic internet so it can be found by anybody.
Etymology
The word résumé is directly from French and means "summary" (but the French
never use it with the same meaning as Americans and Canadians; they say CV).
Curriculum Vitć is Latin for "course of life". The plural is curricula vitć, not
curricula vitarum. The latter would be the genitive of content. The Latin plural
would have been the former, being the genitive of possession: to an ancient
Roman, "curricula vitarum" would suggest that each document described more than
one life. What most people would want from a plural of CV is something meaning
"a number of courses, each describing a single life"; this is curricula vitć.
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