Subj : Re: CV, work-history, 91C, CompSci?, Applet? (was: Software Job
To   : comp.programming,comp.software-eng
From : Steve O'Hara-Smith
Date : Mon Aug 22 2005 01:10 pm

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:51:05 -0700
rem642b@Yahoo.Com (Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t) wrote:

> place where people use one-page resumes to apply for professional jobs
> such as software. Other places such as Europe, they really do use CVs,
> so if somebody in UK, which last I heard had joined the EU and gotten
> connected with the continent by under-channel tunnel and converted to
> Eurpean currency,

	All true apart from that last bit - the UK is still using Sterling
not Euro.

> and says CV, it's natural that I would expect them to actually mean CV,

	Yep a one pager wouldn't go down to well on this side of the pond,
OTOH the CV that you use for job applications is expected to be trimmed
down to no more than three or four pages with the older stuff in very
sketchy outline.

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