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Preparing your Foundation ResumeStage 1

  12.1  Introduction

In different countries and regions there are different words used to describe your personal profile, education, skills and abilities for a position. In some countries it is resume; in others it is curriculum vitae or CV for short. In some such as the USA, resume is often used for a job application, whereas curriculum vitae refers to a more academic resume.

We have adopted the standard term resume. As we progress through the stages of developing your resume, we have used the Foundation Resume to indicate a base document containing a wide range of your skills and abilities.

This chapter builds on the achievements that you have started to develop in the preceding chapters and ...

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