Whats the Difference? Bio Data, Resume , Curriculum Vitae and Auctor Vitae A Bio-Data will contain more of personal information than professional. This document is usually circulated for marriage purpose. Things like caste, permanent address, skin color, height, weight etc. will be typically included in a Bio data. A Resume is a summary of a person’s educational background and work history for a potential employer. The word, which comes from the French ‘resume’ and means ‘summary’, thus points to the conciseness of this type of professional document – a resume generally holds on a single page. Resumes are used in North America and in countries under American cultural influence. A Curriculum Vitae (usually shortened to CV) is the norm in Europe as well as in countries with which it traditionally has cultural ties. In keeping with the Latin meaning (roughly equivalent to ‘course of life’), the phrase usually refers to the short account of a person’s career and qualifications that is prepared when applying for a position. The main difference with the resume is that the CV is usually longer (generally well over two pages long). It thus provides the occasion to delve more deeply into an applicant’s educational, professional and personal details. And this explains why in the USA doctors, scientists and academics also use CVs. International firms tend to favor the CV over the resume because they generally want to know as much information as they can before having people travel for an interview or even having to find out the hard way whether somebody is well or ill suited to living abroad and working in a new and sometimes alien environment. Auctor Vitae comes from the Latin word “Auctor” which means “Author” and Vitae means “pertaining to life”. Auctor Vitae means ” Author of your life” events.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:59:53 +0000
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