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level
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 Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:49 am Post subject: How long should my resume be? |
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| Normally I have a 2 page CV/resume, but most of it is probably not that interesting/relevant for Chinese employers. Should I just put down the real basics and have it 1 page long? |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 11:58 am Post subject: Re: How long should my resume be? |
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| level wrote: |
| Normally I have a 2 page CV/resume, but most of it is probably not that interesting/relevant for Chinese employers. Should I just put down the real basics and have it 1 page long? |
I would say the simpler, the better.
Include only the essentials that would be of interest to an employer, such as your qualifications and experience, both of which should ideally have some aspects relevant to the job.
Chinese employers are, for example, less interested (indeed, they may not be interested at all) in what interests or hobbies you have: if you are used to pursuing your hobbies over the weekend, and you apply to a school where you are expected to work weekends, I think you can safely ditch the hobbies from your resume.
These employers are looking at what you can offer in terms of commitment to their school, not what you do in your spare time.
One page long should do for your resume, especially if you're a newbie at the TEFL game and/or are not very experienced in the world of work owing to, say, your age. If potential employers are interested in employing you, then you're partway through the process already. |
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go_ABs
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I agree with Chris. Use simple language, and keep it to a page. But at the same time, try to provide enough information that they won't be required to ask you for more. That is, try to answer their questions before they ask them. |
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amandabarrick
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One page or two pages, do you think it really matters? I wonder how many employers I have sent a resume to have actually read it? I even wasn't getting a lot of responses to my resume so I even translated it into Chinese, hoping to get more replies, but it didn't help. Most of them only want to see that I am white, willing to work for 1 year, have a degree, etc...
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clarrie
Joined: 05 Apr 2005
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| CV's for Chinese consumption? A couple of lines, if that. Local Cv's are for the most part works of fiction in developmental stage and to be taken with a grain of ... rice, so why should employers believe foreigners' CV's that is if they read them? |
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KES
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| One page is adequate. |
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cj750
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Location: Beijing
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| Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 4:27 pm Post subject: |
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Even though I agree with KES
I have a long (3 pages with complete history) and a short resume.(one page with recent work history)..the longer one gets the most attention...I would also add that it depends if the DOS is a foreinger or if it is read by the FAO. The westerners rather a one page document ..while in my job searches in China..it seems that the "C"hinese like the longer one..as to if they read it or not..they seem to know everything that is written down... |
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