03-12-2009, 08:41 AM
Again, as I said in previous thread, resume is the word used in North America for a description of your job experience.
If you will read a book about resumes it will look to you like all of them are the same, but in reality there are huge differences between US and Canada, between recession and economic boom, between different companies.
And I will give you a few examples, the resume in US will have to show what experience you have, the jobs you went thru, the things you have done - I mean the real thing.
In Canada, a resume it has to be a sum o lies (and even the HR guys and managers are starting from this idea, you have lied in your resume and exaggerate the things), as I said before, if you don't like to say lies your place is not in Canada. First of all even if you had ups and downs you should show in your canadian resume only ups, second in Canada nobody will trust you that you have done more than one trade, no way, if you are a person that has trow out the flies from the park, you can't be also the person that was trowing out the mosquito from the park, it is impossible in Canada to be done both jobs, nobody will trust you and you will not get an interview. I tried at my beginnings to say the truth, I have done this but also I have done that, and I have done some other stuff, No way to get an interview, I modified my resume to show only one trade, waw, my first interview, whe I also had to apply in that company the second trade, I have done it, the guys there where amazed "HOw you know also this?" OH, yes, and I know much more..
Yes, donot say the truth in Canada, you will not be able to get a job.
If you will read a book about resumes it will look to you like all of them are the same, but in reality there are huge differences between US and Canada, between recession and economic boom, between different companies.
And I will give you a few examples, the resume in US will have to show what experience you have, the jobs you went thru, the things you have done - I mean the real thing.
In Canada, a resume it has to be a sum o lies (and even the HR guys and managers are starting from this idea, you have lied in your resume and exaggerate the things), as I said before, if you don't like to say lies your place is not in Canada. First of all even if you had ups and downs you should show in your canadian resume only ups, second in Canada nobody will trust you that you have done more than one trade, no way, if you are a person that has trow out the flies from the park, you can't be also the person that was trowing out the mosquito from the park, it is impossible in Canada to be done both jobs, nobody will trust you and you will not get an interview. I tried at my beginnings to say the truth, I have done this but also I have done that, and I have done some other stuff, No way to get an interview, I modified my resume to show only one trade, waw, my first interview, whe I also had to apply in that company the second trade, I have done it, the guys there where amazed "HOw you know also this?" OH, yes, and I know much more..
Yes, donot say the truth in Canada, you will not be able to get a job.