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Subject:Re: cv,autobgr,resume (RE: One-page resumes) From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:33:47 -0800
At 12:16 PM 2/24/97 E, Valters Feists wrote:
>what is to be understood by
>
>1. "cv"
>1a. cv (without quotes)
>2. autobiography (implicitly in quotes)
>3. RESUME???
>
In the US one hardly ever hears "cv" rather than resume in a business
context. The curriculum vitae, often called simply "vita," is the term in
academic circles. A resume by any other name...
--Wayne Douglass
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