I needed to do my CV as I'm looking for a new job and so instead of just opening the word processor and writing it like a normal person I started writing an app to do it for me. After getting a bit carried away for a couple of weeks just before Christmas I ended up with something that I realised others here on Hacker News would perhaps find useful. I've now started to add features that I think would specifically appeal to Silicon Valley tech types.<p>I'm planning to launch a beta pretty soon and am going to provide as many Hacker News readers who show interest with a free account. Watch out for that post here. In the meantime I'm struggling with the name and consequent domain name registration. I really want to use CV, short for Curriculum Vitae for those in the dark, instead of Resume. But I'm not sure whether you guys in the US use CV and Resume interchangeably like we tend to do here in the UK. My tagline will more than likely have the word Resume in it if I do go with CV in the main name. I'm probably making too big a deal of this one word, but I'm concerned about a) recognition of CV by my target market (Silicon Valley tech types like your good selves) b) that Resume has about 10 times the volume of searches in the US vs CV according to SEMRush. So I should probably have resume in the domain name rather than the tagline.<p>Any input that you US readers have on this CV vs Resume debate would be great. Is CV even recognised in the US as the thing you send along with a job application?
In your target area, i.e. business, resume (don't forget the acute accent on the last e) is the defacto standard in the US, most people I encountered don't know the term CV.<p>Think of the situation as similar to "elevator" and "lift". I think most educated people, since they travel around, have contact with foreign people, etc., would know what a "lift" is but when you're going to a build a business, you want to avoid the awkwardness, unless, of course, you deliberately want to elicit the European or foreign feel (this is why some radio commercials for tea use people with British accents).
For academic and PhD people in the US, a CV is a multi-page document that goes into more detail, for instance, listing all of the details of all of your publications. A resume is generally a one page (sometimes two page) summary.<p>These are a bit flexible, though. I've seen three or four page resumes, and two page CVs.<p>From my perspective, having professional looking templates, each with a different look and feel, would be a major plus.
It doesn't matter.<p>The bonus you get on google for a keyword matching the domain is only on an exact match. So cv.com will get a bonus, but mycv.com won't. Also because "mycv" is treated as a single word it won't even get a normal match for the term "cv", my-cv.com would get the match as Google treat the hypen as a a space, but in general you should avoid hyphenated domain names.
When I launched trackmycv.com I had this exact problem, no one from the US seemed to know what a CV was, I had to buy whoreadsmyresume.com in the end. Almost everywhere apart from the US uses CV, not resumé, but CV doesn't seem to be used at all in the US.
In Turkey, CV is used interchangeably with the turkish "özgeçmiş" Resumé is almost never used.<p>By the way, does anybody remember the CodersCV.com? It was a great site for displaying the CV but it no longer works. For a sample shot of that site, see <a href="http://img365.yukle.tc/images/2880Coders_CV_-_Resume.png" rel="nofollow">http://img365.yukle.tc/images/2880Coders_CV_-_Resume.png</a>
Tangential feature suggestion, which you might already have: LinkedIn integration. If you could pull my work history from my LinkedIn profile, that would save me huge amounts of time.<p>Looking forward to your ShowHN :-)
This may be an obvious statement, but why not try both?
I assume you can get domains for both and test it out.<p>I work in finance and I've seen CV and resume used interchangeably. But more resume than CV.