Resume or curriculum - which one do you send when applying for jobs?

[Giaguara]

Which do you when you apply for a job?

resume, (chronological, functional, combination, simple) or curriculum vitae (academic or European style = bloated with personal irrelevant information)?

Or both depending on job...?

[Lt Major Burns]

i send a resumé, but incorrectly call it a CV, as calling it a resumé over here would be seen as an americanism, and would be seen as a negative thing. i do however keep my CV very concise. you get 3 seconds before the reader decides whether he wants to read more. you have to snare them in. wasting one of your seconds telling the reader where you live is pointless. all your contact details should therefore go at the bottom. if they like you, then they will contact you, not the other way around.

equally, telling people what i got for Religeous Studies when i was 15 is wasting words and also irrelevant, so i could quite happily include it as one of my '9 higher-grade pass GCSE's'.

and telling people that my hobbies include 'listening to music, socialising, going to the cinema' may as well be suffixed with 'and masturbating'. these are things that everyone is likely to do, so putting them down is pointless. only put hobbies if you have a particularly interesting hobby. BASE jumping, for example. it gives you a talking point. 'socialising' doesn't.

i think experience and skills should take centre stage. it is, after all what they want to see. all else are sundries.

[reed]

Well said Lt.Burns,
How does one re-do an old resumé where there are a few gaps in terms of unemplyment or partial work during several years? I chucked the crap you mentioned years ago. Then again I'm no spring chicken either. In a word...how does one catch the eye in Europe (3 seconds?) for an old buster like myself.
One page of course (1+1/2 tops). If it's too long a read it's in the trash.
Cheers.

[Natobasso]

Tailor your resume to fit the needs/requirements of each employer. It's time consuming, but it shows the company you've heard what they want and are the one to provide it.

[chemistry_geek]

In America, this depends on your education, work experience, and the position to which you are applying. As a scientist my entire career, I've submitted resumes and CVs. Generally, if you have a B.S. or M.S. with little or no work experience, you submit a resume. If you have a B.S. / M.S. with considerable experience and accomplishment, or have a Ph.D., then you submit a CV. In the sciences, a CV always has a list of publications and accomplishments, implying very specialized or focused work in a particular field.