Developing a Buzz:Resume and CV
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Overview
- "A résumé (in North American English; often spelled resumé or resume; known as a curriculum vitae in Commonwealth English and in the academic fields in the United States; sometimes abbreviated to CV) 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 is the first item a potential employer encounters regarding the job seeker, and therefore a large amount of importance is often ascribed to it." [1]
- Simple: A document listing your accomplishments and experience to accomplish some goal (customized or generalized)
- Question: What is your one goal?
- Question: What are your bigger goals?
Resumes
- What are they used for?
- For some pointed objective
- Get job
- Get grant
- Get teaching gig
- Some contests
- One Objective
- Customized for use
- 1 page
CV
- What are they used for?
- To show your career is real
- Academic gigs
- Grants
- Proposals
- Writing gigs
- Contests
- Art Shows
- All Accomplishments
- Generic
- 1+ pages (sometimes make a shorter 2 page one)
Shared Between Formats
- structured
- Easy to read and navigate
- make multiple formats
- QUESTION: Why would we do this?
- What if someone can't view in only one format?
- PDF, DOC, HTML, others? PS?
- make easy to update
- Use just standard text editor so you can keep tacking pieces onto
- look and feel fits with CV, Resume, Press Kit, and Business Cards
- look and feel
- print on high quality paper
- don't add color (unless you really know what you are doing)
- keep it simple (K.I.S.S.)
- Fonts
- Serif fonts are more legible
- sans-serif are good for titles
- IMO: Just use serif font like times
