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I want to know why any tech company would still be doing resume reviews on paper ? Page breaks are much less meaningful when you're scrolling through a document.
Lots of people still like to take notes on them...
Something always bothers me when I see two é's on résumé. Yes, it's probably the correct way of saying it, but neither the English nor the French (not even the French!) use the word "résumé." There's a certain level of douchebaggery when I see two accented é's rather than the term "CV," which is used in France and most of Europe.
Judging by the pronunciation, I can't see how both 'e's can be accented. Unless you say "ray soo may".
A résumé (pronounced /ˈrɛzʊmeɪ/ REZ-oo-may or /rɛzʊˈmeɪ/; French: [ʁezyme]; sometimes spelled resumé or resume)
The IPA guide has a soft e in the first syllable, but still suggests an accented first e. How odd.
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I've been sending out resumes recently looking to move to a new position. So far I've seen multiple companies outsource their application tracking systems. When it comes to submitting the resume the options available are either Doc Upload or Copy and paste text into a textfield. I went to an interview and they had printed my resume from the text field. Formatting made the thing unreadable and unfortunately I don't ow…
You don't have to license your own copy just for this. I have no other interest in using Word, so when someone wants my updated résumé only in .doc format, I just pay a couple bucks to do that on one of Kinko's machines. Some libraries offer this as well.
Also, FYI: OpenOffice.org exporting to Word Doc includes the revision history. Make sure to clear that if you don't want potential employers snooping your resume back in time.
The problem with resume advice is that everyone who does interviews eventually develops their own set of strongly-held, essentially arbitrary beliefs about every aspect of the hiring process. It's all ultimately about finding reasons to toss resumes in the trash, until you get down to the handful of candidates that can be reasonably evaluated by one person.
Something always bothers me when I see two é's on résumé. Yes, it's probably the correct way of saying it, but neither the English nor the French (not even the French!) use the word "résumé." There's a certain level of douchebaggery when I see two accented é's rather than the term "CV," which is used in France and most of Europe.
In french, résumé literally means "summary", and it's anything but a synonym for CV. I'm not sure how it ended up being a borrowed word used that way in US english.
Something always bothers me when I see two é's on résumé. Yes, it's probably the correct way of saying it, but neither the English nor the French (not even the French!) use the word "résumé." There's a certain level of douchebaggery when I see two accented é's rather than the term "CV," which is used in France and most of Europe.
Frenchie here. Résumé is written with two "é". Otherwise it's a typo (e != é). In french, résumé literally means "summary", and it's anything but a synonym for CV. I'm not sure how it ended up being a borrowed word used that way in US english.
Then you probably don't want to know what we did with your word for "shower".*
English is just weird like that, I think.
* Which is the same as the word for "shower" in German. I have some good stories from my childhood about such misunderstandings...