Question? Do employers really know the difference between a CV and a Resume when they do advertising of vacancies?
You apply for a position that are advertised either in the newspaper or on websites. They request your CV only to find out that they were only actually referring to your Resume.
Your CV is being scanned through the ATS system that makes it easier to get the best candidate, but what this system doesn’t pick up is the format of your application. Does it pick up that it is a Curriculum Vitae, or does it pick up that it is a Resume?
There are three (3) major differences between a CV and a Resume, they are: 1) Length, 2) Purpose and 3) Layout. A Resume is a brief summary of your skills and experience over 1 or 2 pages.
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A Curriculum Vitae is more detailed and can stretch well beyond two pages. Nowadays the formats are laid out where your name are the main heading where Curriculum Vitae or Resume suppose to be.
This is where the ATS (Application Tracking System) can’t recognise what format you are actually submitting, therefore if you didn’t have the relevant information included in either your CV or Resume, then it gets rejected by the ATS system and your application is not even selected for proper evaluation.
So, the unemployment statistic will continue to rise because of this new implemented system to filter what is actually relevant but not evaluated.
Marina Smal
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