Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British?

• charles@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They’re definitely not the same thing even though they’ve been used interchangeably more and more.

  A CV is a comprehensive overview of everything you’ve accomplished and can be fairly long in certain cases (I’ve seen CVs of specialized professionals or tenured professors that are close to 10 pages long).

  On the other hand, a resume is a concise list of your relevant skills and experiences that should be tailored to the position you are applying to and should almost never be longer than 2 pages.

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  • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t know what to say.

    This is just outright wrong. But you so confident about it I doubt anything I will say matters.

    Every single person I have ever spoken to. From teachers in school, university advisors, parents, friends, family, HR staff, bosses, have said that a CV is no more than 3 pages. Almost always it is said to be 2, sometimes 1 is offered and very occasionally I have heard 3. But never more.

    I guarantee almost all job that specifically asks for a CV would throw out a 10 pager.

    Unless you are talking about how things were in the 1800’s this is just wrong. Which I doubt anyone got a job with more than a handshake before 1945.

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    • charles@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Maybe things are different here in Canada but that’s how I’ve always had it outlined. What you’re describing would be called a resume here and not a CV. The intents of the two documents are not the same.

      Most CVs that I’ve seen are usually closer to 3-5 pages but I’ve seen some that are ~10 pages.

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