Leo不哭，英语共读帮你找工作| Writing a CV
（Friday）
最近百度又摊上事儿了，旗下的UE总监刘超在国际体验设计大会上，做了一个“不专业”的“专业”演讲。不少网友吐槽刘超演讲过于口语化、不专业、低俗。穿衣不正规、太过于闲散。最后虽然刘超也发了内部道歉信，但百度的内部员工貌似并不买账，吐槽刘超——不用道歉，直接辞职谢罪就好。
刘超不哭，有书英语共读帮你找工作！
Writing a CV
简历(Resume)，简称CV并无固定不变的单一形式，应聘者完全可以根据个人的具体情况来确定采用何种形式并灵活设计。一般来说，根据个人经历的不同侧重点，可以选用以下三种形式：
Basic Resume以学历为主的简历
这种形式适应于应届毕业生或中学毕业后仍在待业的求职人员，因为没有工作经历，所以把重点放在学业上，从最高学历往下写。
Chronological Resume以经历为主的简历
以这种形式出现的英语简历，往往侧重于工作经历，把同应聘职位有关的经历和业绩按时间顺序书写出来，把工作经历放在学历之前。经历和学历的时间顺序均是由近至远。
毫无疑问，这种形式的英语简历适合于有工作经验的求职人员。比如：Leo。
Functional Resume以职能为主的简历
以职能为主的简历则按工作职能或性质来概括工作经历，并无时间上的连贯性，旨在强调某些特定的工作能力和适应程度。比方说，你曾经在两个不同的工作单位担任相同的职务或负责相同的业务，便可归纳在一个项目之中。
CVs中不受欢迎的字眼
Words including 'motivated', 'creative', 'enthusiastic' and 'passionate' came top of a poll for least liked words among recruiters. 在一项关于招聘人员最不喜欢的字眼的调查中，“motivated（积极性高的）”、“creative（有创造力的）”、“enthusiastic（热心的）”和“passionate（有激情的）”名列前茅。
The adjectives are so overused they have lost their meaning to employers, who are instead looking for applicants to describe themselves in more original ways. 这些形容词人们用得太多，对雇主而言已经失去了意义，他们更希望听到求职者用更加有新意的词汇描述自己。
听力
Listen to John Woodrow, a Human Resource‘s professional advices on writing better CVs.
请听资深HR John Woodrow就如何优化您的简历给出的建议。
Transcript:
Writing a CV Interviewer
Learn English Professionals is talking to John Woodrow, who works in the Human Resources department of a large UK-based company. John, tell us about your work...
John: I work on recruitment, especially – so I’m the person who reads the hundreds of CVs we get sent each year!
Interviewer: Do you accept CVs as part of your recruitment process?
John: When we advertise for a particular post, we send out our own application form, which is tailored to our company, and we can use it to make sure we find exactly what we’re looking for...
Interviewer: So a CV is useless?
John: No! Not at all – we’re happy to accept CVs from people even when we’re not recruiting. That way we can build up a database of possible candidates, and as our company is always changing – we’re very flexible in our needs right now (laughs) – it’s good to know what kind of people are out there. We do keep everything on file, and will get back to people who look promising.
Interviewer: So we should be sending you our CVs?
John: Yes, absolutely, yes!
Interviewer: What advice can you give us on writing a CV?
John: Keep it short, keep it simple, keep it relevant. Anything longer than three pages will automatically go into the bin. Just tell us what we need to know. Make sure it’s clearly written – and that there are no spelling mistakes on it! And no fancy fonts...or photographs. We don’t need to know what people look like, just what they’ve done, and what they’re capable of...
Interviewer: So we’re going to look at a couple of CVs now...
John: Yes – these are a couple that arrived just this morning, so let’s take a look...(sound of paper unfolding)... OK, I can see straight away that we have a good one and a bad one here...
Interviewer: (laughs) How can you tell so soon?
John: Well, as I just said, this one here is...how many...one, two, three, four pages long, it’s written in tiny type, I can hardly read it...and, wait, yes, there’s a photograph attached to the front!
Interviewer: Too much information?
John: Yes...just leafing through it, I can see he’s written about where he went to primary school – that’s just not relevant...
Interviewer: What kind of educational background should be included?
John: Perhaps your high school, but it’s mostly further education we’re interested in, university or college, then any professional qualifications you may have, as well as work experience of course...
Interviewer: That’s important?
John: Oh yes – placements or internships all count!
Interviewer: What about personal information?
John: A bit is necessary...but look, this guy has written he was a member of the stamp collecting society in secondary school...! Not interested...
Interviewer: What about the other CV?
John: OK, again, I can see right away this looks more promising...only two and a half pages, lots of space on the page, easy to read, well-organised. Hmmm, a couple of impressive looking references, that’s good. And, yes, they’ve included language skills – very important...
Interviewer: What languages are you looking for?
John: Well, English, obviously – as we’re a UK-based company and English is still the language of global business, and then, well, anything really – Spanish is useful, Russian, Mandarin Chinese too...
Interviewer: OK, we’ll get studying! Thanks John!
作业
听力填空题，10分，共7小题，每题1.42857142857……分
Listen to the audio again and complete the text by writing the missing words into the gaps below.
1. John, ____________ about your work.
2. It’s good to know what ____________ people are out there.
3. What advice ____________ give us on writing a CV?
4. Anything longer ____________ pages will automatically go into the bin.
5. Make sure it’s clearly written and ____________ no spelling mistakes in it.
6. We don’t need ____________ what people look like.
7. We’re ____________ a couple of CVs now.
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—共读书籍简介—
《Zero to One》涉及哲学、历史、经济等多元领域，解读世界运行的脉络，分享商业与未来发展的落实。该书将帮助我们思考从0到1的秘密，在意想不到之处发现价值与机会。
值得关注的是，这本《Zero to One》绝非学术讨论或者思想大师们的论战，自问世起，它的影响就迅速超越了投资圈，在美国亚马逊图书畅销总榜上跻身前列。