Re: resume vs CV

Tony Cooper wrote:
Resumes in the US used to contain all sorts of stuff from church
membership to being a Cub Scout den leader to membership in civic
organizations to hobbies and interests. Not anymore, though.

Resumes I've seen in recent years commonly had a line or so at the bottom
with a list of certain kinds of hobbies and non-work interests. A
statement of church membership would be in extremely poor taste in at
least *some* parts of the country, and I don't think I've ever seen that.
You can usually tell if someone's a Mormon, though.

The list of hobbies and interests is generally limited to what's
considered politically correct at the time, at least for adept
job-seekers. In general, anything suggestive of intellectuality or
cerebrality is suspect (woe to those job-seekers who indicate an interest
in "reading"), while certain kinds of sports or physical activities are
desirable (e.g. golf, rock-climbing, hang-gliding), perhaps because those
activities are ones commonly used as excuses for engaging in business
transactions. In recent years it's been common to list "cooking" as an
interest. This is also done to signal aspirations to higher class status,
I think; it's one of those things like getting a tan
or wearing jeans that came to have the opposite of its original social
significance.

--
Salvatore Volatile
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