Curriculum Vitae
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Remember when I said that there is an exception
to every rule in the resume business? Well, here's another one. In most cases, resumes should be
concise and limited to one or two pages at the most. You will carefully select your information to
provide a synopsis. In the professions, however, a much longer resume is expected and the longer the
resume, the better your chances of getting an interview. Those industries generally include medicine,
law, education, science, and media (television, film, etc.). If you are applying for a job in a foreign
country, long resumes with more detail and a considerable amount of personal information are the norm.
Such a professional resume is called a curriculum
vita (CV) from the Latin meaning "course of one's life." For those of us who have trouble knowing how
to spell the word, vita is singular and vitae is plural.
A successful CV will include not only education
and experience but also publications (books, magazines, journals, and other media), certifications,
licenses, grants, professional affiliations, awards, honors, presentations, and/or courses taught.
Anything relevant to your industry is appropriate to use on a CV, and the resume can be as long as it
needs to be to present the "course of your life."
A CV--or any resume with multiple pages for that
matter--must contain a header with your name and page number on each successive page. Should the pages
become separated, the reader should be able to easily put your subsequent pages in their proper order
and with your resume!
Sample CVs:
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From Designing the
Perfect Resume, by Pat Criscito.
Copyright 2000. Reprinted by arrangement with Barron's Educational Series, Inc.
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