Hey Sand, I sent ya a PM. Would be happy to look over your resume.
They were loaded with jargon and unverifiable claims of multi-million-dollar benefits to former employers.
Don't puff it up. I hate catching candidates in overstated qualifications. Be honest.
As I said, I do resume and cover letter critiquing. To be more specific, I work for my university's career development center by providing an interview experience to undergraduates. While many of them have job experience, most have never experienced a formal and professional interview until they get in front of me.
Anyways, just needed to explain that so what I'm about to say makes sense... Highlighting accomplishments is a good thing, but be sure, as Munji said, you're not fluffing or overstating. I recall one interview in which the interviewee submitted a resume highlighting that he had generated something like $10,000 in sales during the first week of one of his jobs. Who was the company? Vector. If you're not familiar with Vector, it's a multi-level marketing company in which you sell knife sets to people in your personal network. You generally start off with impressive numbers, because you're selling to your family and close friends, who are going to buy at least something out of personal obligation. Then, after a few months, just about everyone's numbers drop off because they've exhuasted their personal networks. I honestly don't know anyone who has ever actually had a sustainable career in multi-level marketing other than perhaps some people who sell Mary Kay stuff on the side. But make-up runs out, meaning return customers; knives generally last quite a long time.
I didn't mention anything to the interviewee about how $10,000 in sales during the first week at a MLL agency really isn't at all impressive if you understand what MLL is - of course, you had great sales the first week, it's your mom and dad you're selling to then - but I did tell him that he should seriously rethink having that as a bullet point on his resume. I don't think he was happy that I told him that, but better to learn that in a "safe" environment than embarass oneself out in the real world if a hiring manager or HR person were to call you out on that.
As far as a resume and a CV, they are generally synonymous in a lot of Europe, but they're two similar but different things in the states. A resume is generally a one or two page profile of recent job experience, qualifications, education, and skills. A CV generally lists research and teaching experience, along with professional and academic publications and grants. CVs can be 20+ pages long. While my CV has all of my research experience on it, my resume doesn't even list the title of my Master's thesis.
