résumé or resumé or resume
Well, which is it? Per dictionary.com, it’s either résumé or resumé. Per my spell checker, it’s résumé. Yet when put the little squiggly marks above the e (i.e., é), email programs tend to garble it into unrecognizable characters and I’m not certain an HR director somewhere would have any idea that I was trying to use proper spelling and may think I’m an idiot. Thoughts?
I’ve been sticking with resume to avoid technical mishaps.
March 6th, 2006 at 11:07 am
I learned to not use accented characters on the Internet during the Usenet era. (I know – Usenet isn’t technically the Internet.) Too much potential for garbage characters.
March 6th, 2006 at 11:38 am
The choice is between being fancy or being readable.
If you are sending out a resume, which is more valueable to you?
March 6th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
I work in HR. Typically that stuff really doesn’t matter…it’s like concentrating on the minutia and if anything reeks of a micromanager mindset.
The color of your paper on the other hand…
March 6th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
Paper? what is this paper you speak of?
March 6th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Well whatever this ‘paper’ allegedly is…it should not be blue, yellow, or hot pink.
Also if you have a perverted email address (backdoorlover or sweettime69) it would be a good idea not to use it on your resume.
Yes, we have those two exact prefixes here within the last six months…applying for two separate positions of considerable responsibility.
March 6th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
Alternative spelling res^H’ume^H’
“CV”
March 6th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
Exactly what is it that you want to resume? Working? Why would you want to do that?
And if you want to resume doing it so badly, why did you stop in the first place?
Sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
June 19th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
[…] Update: There is some disagreement over spelling résumé. I blame the French. It’s also a problem for web browsers and email readers, as I noted here. […]