CV vs Resume

Both documents present your background to an employer. The difference depends on where you are:

• US and Canada. A resume is one or two pages, selective and tailored to the job. A CV is the long academic version: every degree, publication, grant, talk and teaching post, often many pages.
• UK, Ireland, most of Europe, Turkey and many other countries. “CV” is the normal word for the short job-application document. “Resume” is rarely used.

So a two-page “CV” in London and a two-page “resume” in New York are essentially the same thing — while an American academic CV is a different document altogether.

Sending a ten-page academic CV to a US company that asked for a resume buries your best points; sending a one-page resume to a university hiring committee leaves out what they need to see. Read the posting: use the word it uses and match the expected length. Local conventions matter beyond the name too — US resumes usually leave out a photo and date of birth, while many CVs in Turkey and parts of Europe include a photo.

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