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Kay Denney 
France
Local time: 04:52
French to English
Tom in London wrote:
I will probably risk being accused of being pedantic but when I read ' "Infographic" resumes' I assumed there had been some "Infographic" thing but that it had stopped, and that it had now started again. So I ignored this thread until today when, out of curiosity, I clicked on it.
"To resume" is a verb.
[Edited at 2023-03-20 09:22 GMT]
and "a resume" is what Americans call CVs.
Yes it's pronounced "résumé" but since QWERTY keyboards don't have accents, they are gleefully dropped.
| | | | Kay Denney
France
Local time: 04:52
French to English
Jocelyn Laney wrote:
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These resumes are often 6 or 8 pages long and full of icons for every possible thing.
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I would love to hear the perspective of an HR person who receives a lot of these, and to hear about what kind of resume advice the younger generation is getting. In the US and EU, plain formatting and 1-2 pages is standard. Or is it???
I'm not an HR person but I have been involved in parsing CVs and shortlisting potential colleagues.
I would say that this style is obviously something that will appeal to digital natives. The presentation looks like it's trying to be an edgy website. In other words, civilisation has circled right back round to using hieroglyphics as the Egyptians did in ancient times.
So I'm not sure I would hold the format against them. Spreading the info over several pages would turn it into something that could be viewed easily on a mobile phone, and I suppose a busy HR person or person in charge of finding a translator might well appreciate getting on with their job on their commute into the office (not me but I'm not a digital native, I will wait to get home and onto my computer to answer a WhatsApp message if I want to do more than say "OK" and add a heart emoji). HR people and people seeking out translators are not translators, so we can expect that they would prefer this kind of format to slabs of text.
Of course, format remains secondary to the text, which still needs to be flawless.
[Edited at 2023-03-21 08:32 GMT]
| | | | Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 03:52
Member (2008)
Italian to English
Kay Denney wrote:
Tom in London wrote:
I will probably risk being accused of being pedantic but when I read ' "Infographic" resumes' I assumed there had been some "Infographic" thing but that it had stopped, and that it had now started again. So I ignored this thread until today when, out of curiosity, I clicked on it.
"To resume" is a verb.
[Edited at 2023-03-20 09:22 GMT]
and "a resume" is what Americans call CVs.
Yes it's pronounced "résumé" but since QWERTY keyboards don't have accents, they are gleefully dropped.
That'll be the same people who pronounce "lingerie" as "lawn jerray".
[Edited at 2023-03-21 16:56 GMT]
| | | | Baran Keki
Türkiye
Local time: 05:52
Member
English to Turkish
| Unacceptable! | Mar 21, 2023 |
Tom in London wrote:
That'll be the same people who pronounce "lingerie" as "lawn jerray".
[Edited at 2023-03-21 16:56 GMT]
That kind of pronunciation is unacceptable (as pronounced in this video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oy8uyHtPWM
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Gerard de Noord
France
Local time: 04:52
Member (2003)
English to Dutch
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| Don't break the automation | Mar 21, 2023 |
Jocelyn Laney wrote:
What is the deal with this wave of crowded, colorful resumes?
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I would love to hear the perspective of an HR person who receives a lot of these, and to hear about what kind of resume advice the younger generation is getting. In the US and EU, plain formatting and 1-2 pages is standard. Or is it???
As an HR translator I can tell you that the resumes people send to big organisations go through many data filters. There's a big chance that all that beautiful artwork won't pass them. Colourful, creative applicants won’t even reach the database.
If people post their resumes online, for everyone to see, they can be as creative as they want. But they’d have to link to an HR friendly page.
Cheers,
Gerard
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Jocelyn Laney wrote:
Thank you for understanding me!
So many of these resumes have bad spelling and spacing. I think some translators are paying a service to create and promote their resume and the results are very bad.
I've just received a resume from someone who holds a "Mastar of Languages from the Universty of Cambridge". Out to the bin it went...
| | | | Jocelyn Laney
Japan
Local time: 11:52
Japanese to English
TOPIC STARTER
Please fwd it to me next time, I would love to see it!
| | | | Peter Motte
Belgium
Local time: 04:52
Member (2009)
English to Dutch
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| That's my biggest problem too | Sep 12, 2023 |
Jocelyn Laney wrote:
As for adding the company logos of companies I have done work for - most of my work is done through agencies, so the NDAs prevent me from claiming any direct connection to or recognition by those companies. It's unlikely the end client would ever see my resume, but if the agencies saw those company names listed they would cut me off.
I worked for some really impressive end clients, but I'm not allowed to mention them either.
Partly, there is a reason for it: it's possible the agencies did some proofreading on my work.
But I'm sure they don't always do that, and some agencies never do.
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Peter Motte
Belgium
Local time: 04:52
Member (2009)
English to Dutch
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| Look like adds | Sep 12, 2023 |
Kay Denney wrote:
I would say that this style is obviously something that will appeal to digital natives. The presentation looks like it's trying to be an edgy website. In other words, civilisation has circled right back round to using hieroglyphics as the Egyptians did in ancient times.
To me it looks as if they turn résumés into a company brochure.
It gets the look and feel of "hey, I'm a company offering translations".
It might be a good way to handle things in certain situations.
But I think it might also backfire on other occasions.
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