Date:  Fri, 17 Mar 1995 18:30:24 -0500

From:  jeffrey howard allen <jhallen[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UCS.INDIANA.EDU>

Subject: Re: French coupe' (fwd)



Vicki,



I fully agree that a CV tends to be used in the academic realm, whereas

a resume (or one of its orthographic variants) is used pretty much

everywhere else and tends to be shorter. This is often because a resume

doesn't need a publications and research section. Resume is the words

that non-academics use, so now I do too in the corporate sector.



Jeff Allen

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I spell resume (noun, meaning a summary of one's experience sent to

a potential employer) without accent marks. Also, I and a few of my

friends will jocularly and deliberately pronounce it as if it were

the verb resume (two syllables, long e and u) when we know there's no

possibility of confusion. (At least in my usage, a resume and a

curriculum vitae are different things--a c.v. is used mostly for

academic jobs, and lists everything, while a resume is used elsewhere

and summarizes, often in a single page.)



Vicki Rosenzweig

vr%acmcr.uucp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]murphy.com

New York, NY