A résumé or curriculum vitć (CV) (from Latin "the course of one's life or
career") is a document containing a summary or listing of relevant job
experience and education, usually for the purpose of obtaining an interview
when seeking employment. Often the résumé or CV is the first item that a
potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker, and therefore a
large amount of importance is often ascribed to it. More about
resume:
Traditionally, résumés have been, like careers themselves, oriented towards
what a person has accomplished thus far. In most contemporary career
consulting the trend is to fashion the document towards what that person can
accomplish in a particular job. This is sometimes called a 'targeted
résumé'.
The word résumé is used especially in the United States and in English
Canada; the Latin term curriculum vitć (often abbreviated CV) is instead
used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, French Canada and some
Commonwealth countries, as well as in the academic fields in North America,
and in many languages other than English. In some regions (such as Australia
and India) CV and résumé are used interchangeably.
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