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Subject:Re: Resume vs. cv From:Jan Boomsliter <boom -at- CADENCE -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:16:45 -0800
They mean different things to me. The curriculum vita encompasses all
aspects of one's life; a resume is organized to point to specific
abilities and experience. You weed out of your resume the joke book
you published, while your cv tells your marital status.
The resume is used to search for a job. The cv is published by
organizations that are showing off their staff, usually academia or a
company applying for federal money.
jb
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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.
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