• Marital status: Single
• Date of birth: November 14, 1957
• Place of birth: Nice, France
• Dual citizenship: U.S.A. and France
• Passport: U.S.A. and French (both currently valid)
• Health: Excellent
• Availability: Immediate; open to travel or relocation worldwide for the right opportunity Languages: French, Italian, English (fluent), German (business fluency)

Other notables:

• Currency: Specify monetary denominations, such as U.S. dollars, by writing “US$1 billion.”
• Telephone: Because you may not know what country your potential employer is calling from, do not include an international access code because it differs slightly from country to country. Instead, when residing in the United States, list only the country code (1), your area code, and telephone number. For instance, if you were targeting jobs in Europe while living state-side, your telephone number would appear as +1-707-222-3333.
• Country: Remember to add “U.S.” to your address if you’re using an address in the States.
• Education: Different countries have different protocol on detailing education. If you’re looking for jobs in Asia, employers prefer details on education as far back as grammar school.

Points

• Shows your international business savvy by using the appropriate format.
• Allows you to take advantage of the “tell more, sell more” theory. You can offer readers a lengthy, blow-by-blow narration of your track record.

Pitfalls

• Reveals personal information you might not want employers to know.
• Sets you up for discriminatory hiring practices (if you’re not of the “right” age, ethnicity, marital status, or other persuasion).

Thorough and typically tedious, these documents can run into double-digit page length, complete with addenda. One CV for a physician-who had a 30-year career as a researcher, writer, and practitioner-yielded 24 pages. If this is your case, for the sake of your reader’s ophthalmologist bills, try culling some of the older, less-important committees or professional activities (but never drop journal articles or publications). Even veteran academicians and physicians should keep it to 10 or so pages. For the sake of space, I’ve shortened the entries under each category to abbreviate the sample CV of Eloise Stanlake-Waxman to just two pages (see Résumé below). But it gives you an idea of which categories a CV normally includes.

A hybrid of the typical business résumé and the CV has evolved for those scientists, academicians, and physicians who have combined management degrees and executive responsibilities with their primary discipline. For instance, a radiologist with an MBA degree seeking a physician executive position could use an executive CV format. Beyond mere lists, the document should give credit for business outcomes resulting from your management savvy.

Just as Dr. Stravilovich did in his sample executive CV (see Résumé below), detail any of your accomplishments that reflect profit, productivity, or quality improvements.