A résumé (in North American English; also sometimes spelled resumé or resume) or curriculum vitae (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. File links The following pages link to this file: Alchemy Ada Adventure Apartheid Abbreviation Airplane (disambiguation) Abduction Alder Anno Domini Air ABC (disambiguation) Ad hominem Afghan AD Aether Aba Anus Affinity Ai AZ Albinism Accumulator Binary Chess Computer Carbon Cow Cricket (disambiguation) Collection Convex Culture Ceramics Case Creation Crow (disambiguation... Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (thesaurus, lexicon therein) in every language. ... File links The following pages link to this file: Alchemy Ada Adventure Apartheid Abbreviation Airplane (disambiguation) Abduction Alder Anno Domini Air ABC (disambiguation) Ad hominem Afghan AD Aether Aba Anus Affinity Ai AZ Albinism Accumulator Binary Chess Computer Carbon Cow Cricket (disambiguation) Collection Convex Culture Ceramics Case Creation Crow (disambiguation... Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (thesaurus, lexicon therein) in every language. ... North American English is a collective term to describe the varieties of the English language that are spoken in the United States and Canada. ... Commonwealth English is intended as a collective term for the perceived standard English language used in the Commonwealth of Nations1, applying in theory to Australian English, British English, Caribbean English, Canadian English, Hiberno-English (Irish English)2, Hong Kong English, Indian English (includes Pakistani English), New Zealand English, and South... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ...

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. American English or U.S. English is the diverse form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ...

In British English, CV is the standard term for what is called a résumé in American English. The term British English is generally used by people outside of the UK to refer to the variant of the English language spoken in the British Isles. ...

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. In computer science, a keyword is an identifier which indicates a specific command. ...

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. An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ... A solo exhibition (sometimes called a one-man or one-woman exhibition) is, in visual art, photography or the like, a display in a gallery, museum or other venue of the works of only one artist. ...

Like résumés, CVs are subject to recruiting fads. For example,

• In German-speaking countries a picture is a mandatory adjunct to the CV.
• Except for the theatrical professions, a picture is strongly discouraged in U.S. CVs.
• 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.
• 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.

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Example

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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 Vitae is Latin for "course of life". The plural is curricula vitae, 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 vitae.

External links

• ResumeWiki (http://www.resumewiki.com) - An open-content wiki devoted to résumés and other job-seeking tasks
• http://www.cvtips.com/CV_example.html
• http://www.killerres.com
• http://www.dice.com
• http://careerbuilder.com
• EServer TC Library: Résumés (http://tc.eserver.org/dir/Resumes)
• http://www.zillionresumes.com/
• http://www.findaresume.com/
• http://open-site.org/Business/Employment/
• http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/writing/curriculum-vitae