Poll: How often do you update your CV? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "How often do you update your CV?".
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| | | | Julian Holmes 
Japan
Local time: 21:17
Member (2011)
Japanese to Ingiriisi
| When I've done something worth adding | Dec 18, 2012 |
Or, I might remove or add specific sections to make it more relevant to a new customer.
After all, I don't want my CV to read like a Yellow Pages. I want it to be immediately useful to new customers -- if I really have to supply it to them, that is.
| | | | Ty Kendall
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:17
Hebrew to Ingiriisi
| Whenever it needs to be done.... | Dec 18, 2012 |
However often that is.
| | | | Tatty
Local time: 14:17
Spanish to Ingiriisi
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| After every interpretation | Dec 18, 2012 |
After every interpretation I add the hours to my CV. It's for me too, that way I can see how many hours I have clocked up.
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Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 14:17
Member (2006)
German to Ingiriisi
Julian Holmes wrote:
Or, I might remove or add specific sections to make it more relevant to a new customer.
After all, I don't want my CV to read like a Yellow Pages. I want it to be immediately useful to new customers -- if I really have to supply it to them, that is.
I really only edit it than add anything and if I add anything worthwhile, then I get rid of older stuff in it.
| | | | neilmac
Spain
Local time: 14:17
Spanish to Ingiriisi
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I'm afraid that particular horse has bolted. In fact, I've been thinking about removing most if not all of my CV from the site, but since I let my membership lapse I get fewer nuisance approaches from pushy, cheapskate outsourcers anyway, so for the moment I'm not bothered.
| | | | Diana Coada (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:17
Portuguese to Ingiriisi
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| Never really | Dec 18, 2012 |
Or only when an agency asks for it. I wonder when they'll let us ditch them altogether, since they're the only ones still insisting on them. With personal websites and millions of other profiles, freelancers do not need CVs.
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I'm talking about my résumé that can be accessed through ProZ. This is what I send out to prospective clients, and it has a date at the top. It's one page, tighly packed, and there's not much room for extensive changes.
I have a long CV that's still a work in progress. When/if I ever get all the facts and dates squared away, I will post it on my website.
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Whenever required. It is a key document and needs to be adapted to suit each occasion. A list of qualifications and experience can be provided to anyone but its relevance only becomes pertinent when account is taken of the purpose for which it is being supplied and the person or persons for whom it is intended.
| | | | Allison Wright (X)
Portugal
Local time: 13:17
| Strange animal, the CV | Dec 18, 2012 |
While everything on my CV is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, so help me God, I must confess that with observation of confidentialities and gradual directional changes in the work that I do, it seems to bear little resemblance to "the real me", now.
Perhaps one day if I am feeling particularly jaded or abstruse, I may well send as my CV this performance of Samuel Beckett's play, "Breath", even though I do not agree with the visual in this video. The sound (although not ... See more While everything on my CV is true and correct to the best of my knowledge, so help me God, I must confess that with observation of confidentialities and gradual directional changes in the work that I do, it seems to bear little resemblance to "the real me", now.
Perhaps one day if I am feeling particularly jaded or abstruse, I may well send as my CV this performance of Samuel Beckett's play, "Breath", even though I do not agree with the visual in this video. The sound (although not the lighting) is more or less what the playwright intended.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ZON66BbB0
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| | | | | When someone ask me for it | Dec 18, 2012 |
I usually update my CV when I have to send it to somebody.
| | | | Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 14:17
Member (2009)
Ingiriisi to German
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| When being asked | Dec 18, 2012 |
Usually I update my CV only when a new client asks for it (which only summarizes my works anyway instead of a detailed listing) or when I've accomplished something out of the ordinary that's really worth mentioning. Other than that, I've no time to update it.
[Edited at 2012-12-18 13:24 GMT]
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