Trevor.Reynolds wrote: ".... (plus the usual personal
stuff like age, address, nationality, driving licence)"  This is an interesting contrast.  Here I would be highly suspect of an application that included anything like age or nationality.  Here (USA) employers cannot ask about such information as it could be construed as grounds for a discrimination suit. (US law has strict guidelines regarding age discrimination as well as race discrimination and sex discrimination. Some states allow discrimination based on marital status, in others it is "protected")   I always hated being given information like that.  I know that the federal application here does require date of birth.  I have yet to figure out just how we get away with that when a private employer or state or local government could run into problems.

I was surprised, too, to hear a presenter from the UK say that women should not be handling crates of art over a certain size.  In the US,  I would be careful to say that art over a certain size requires X people of X strength X height and X weight rather than including or excluding based on their gender.

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Here in the UK (where we don't use the term resume at all and where we
use the term CV to cover everything of that type) I would expect a CV to
be a basic education and employment history (plus the usual personal
stuff like age, address, nationality, driving licence).  I would only
want to see the employer's name & address, job title, start and end
date, reason for leaving and no more than a short sentence describing
the job (possibly the final salary).  Obviously the more jobs/courses
you've done the longer this will be.  A list of articles/books published
might also be appropriate but I would expect this to be limited to those
that were relevant for the job you are applying for.

I would then expect a covering letter which pulled out the parts of your
experience which were relevant to the job you were applying for.
Ideally this would be linked to each element of the job description
supplied by the employer and presented in the same order.  I would not
expect this to be much longer than two pages.

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