CV - Curriculum Vitae or Resume

Should You use a CV or a Resume?

On one of my websites; I have a full page dedicated to informing about how to write a CV www.wfb-bodyguards.com/close-protection-employment.htm. However, it appears that many of my visitors does not read that site or maybe they just don't care about what it says... at least many of the CV 's I receive are doing everything opposite of what I recommended on my
website.

I am not saying that you Dear Reader is one of them, but in case you are... then you should definitely read the rest of this post.

First of all there are a common misunderstanding that a resume and a CV is the same thing, it is not. CV stands for Curriculum Vitae, which is Latin and means "Life history". A CV is therefore commonly from 4 to 10 pages long as it covers ones "life history", the CV is most commonly used in higher positions within the corporate and intellectual environment.

Should you use a CV or Resume?
What is most commonly used in the CP world is a Resume. A "Resume" is a really a brief introduction to your full CV. Thus is your resume you include the vital points from your CV in a short and simple manner, thus it is a resume of your CV and should preferably be 1 page, maximum 2 pages long.

On the web page I mentioned above there is a lot of information regarding how to write your CV, once you have read this post go to the site and read all the information there as well. Don't send your Resume to anyone again, before you have read the site and made the appropriate changes to your current Resume.

Best regards,

Dan Sommer - Your Life & Career Coach www.DanSommer.Biz