Re: Resume or CV

Subject: Re: Resume or CV
From: "Kaye Adkins" <kadkins -at- missouriwestern -dot- edu>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:35:20 -0600

(Two postings in one day about cvs!)

A CV is quite different from a resume. My resume is about two pages long. My CV is up to six pages (and growing all the time). For a student, a cv should include education information (including all appropriate courses that have been taken), appropriate skills (software, writing, foreign language, photography, etc.), activities, honors, any publications or presentations, and work experience. Faculty are expected to include teaching and research interests, in addition to all of the above information.

Kaye Adkins
Associate Professor of English/Technical Communication
Missouri Western State University

>>> "CapDev Communications" <capdev -dot- communications -at- gmail -dot- com> 12/3/2007 10:20 AM >>>
I recently received a request from an American student who is in London. She
was asked to provide a CV as part of an application for a summer internship.
She asked me what was the difference between a resume and a CV, could I
provide a format for a CV. I tolde her that a resume and a CV were
essentially the same thing. (She has a very nice resume already done.) When
she contacted the company's HR group (in London), she was told that, no, a
CV is different from a resume.

I'm stumped. This is for a student, not an executive or an academic with a
long publications list.

Does anyone know how a CV would differ from a resume, especially for a
student who's applying for summer internships? Could it be that the UK has
different formats?

Thank you for your help.

Pat

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San Francisco, CA 94119-4391
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