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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

Not traditionally. A CV should contain essentially everything whereas the resume is tailored to the specific position.

CVs are much more common for academic positions but I’ve also seen them required for very specialized roles.

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jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
How do you explain that in Europe pretty much all countries only use the word CV then for any job?

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- charles@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  By saying that I didn’t realize it was different in Europe. Often when we (Canada) do something different than the US, it’s because it’s closer to how it’s done in Europe and I assumed this was one of those cases.
  
  I’m planning on looking into this more when I have some free time as I’d like to understand where our approach to both documents came from.
  
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  - jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Fair enough :)
    
    In all countries in Europe I’ve been, CV is used both as a “life document” and a targeted document to a specific job.
    
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