Resume vs. cv

Subject: Resume vs. cv
From: MSz <SZCZEPANIK -at- IDICL1 -dot- IDI -dot- OCLC -dot- ORG>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 10:52:56 -0500

In response to Mark Levinson's query re: resume vs cv:

>>I just got a poke in the virtual ribs from a fellow expatriate American
>>for requesting a "cv" from job applicants. Should I have said "resume"?
>>Is there a difference in meaning between the two? Are there many qualified
>>hunters of writing jobs who don't know what a cv is? Would people expect
>>to see "cv" or (capitalized) "CV"?
>>
>>I suggest sending any simple votes to me ("CV is bad, resume is good"...),
>>any long reasoned arguments ("it seems to me that because of the diacritical
>>marks in 'resume'...") to the list.

In grad school (English, Ohio State Univ.), I was told to send a CV if
applying for an academic job and a RESUME if applying for a job in the
business world. The structure and content of the documents differ
accordingly. So neither term is *bad*. But whereas everyone knows what
a resume is, a person who has not been to grad school and/or applied for
a job in academia may not be familiar with the term "cv."

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