24/08/2026
You send the same CV to a job in Berlin and to a university in Boston. Berlin is happy. Boston wanted an entirely different document. 🌍
The word is the same. The meaning isn't.
In the US and Canada, a resume and a CV are two different things, built on opposite logic:
📃 Resume: tailored to one ad, one or two pages, never sent twice.
📜 CV: cumulative, education first, no page limit. Standard in academia, and in medicine and law in most countries.
Everywhere else, from the UK to Australia, "CV" is just the everyday word for a resume.
