写英文简历，需要注意哪些问题？
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1. 身高体重、政治面貌、婚姻状况、出生年月、籍贯户口是不需要放在简历上的。除非雇主指明需要，照片也不用放。
2. 简历上不要写大段的“自我评价”。网上各个欧美大学都有简历模板，直接套用就好。表格式简历在欧美国家也比较少见。
3. 在中国获得的奖项和证书请写全称，并加上你的排名。
如果你光写“CET-6, Score: 600”，雇主不知道“CET”是什么东西。写“College English Test - Level 6, Score: 600”，雇主不知道 600 分算高算低，Level 6 是不是最高等级。比较好的办法是写上你的排名。同理，很多时候“Model Student”或者“XX Cup Chemistry Competition”面试官搞不清含金量高低，但如果你加上排名，就能充分表明“你很厉害”这点，面试官也不需要知道“Model Student”究竟是什么。
当然，如果奖项、证书和你应聘的岗位或申请的专业比较相关，又或者你的简历比较空，那可以花一句话解释一下该奖项、证书。
4. 为了避免歧义，日期建议写成 January 5, 2016 或者 5 January, 2016 这种格式。全是数字的话，16/01/05 外国人看不懂，01/05/16 在有些国家代表 1 月 5 日，有些国家代表 5 月 1 日。
5. 所有标点请用英文的半角格式。逗号后面记得空格。简历里一般用不到句号。
6. 还在上学或刚工作几年的，简历最好只有一页。
7. 文件名最好存为 Zhang_CV.pdf 或者 Zhang_Resume.docx 这样，以姓氏开头、无空格。
8. 邮箱的姓名请换成拼音姓名。如果收件方是外国人，汉字、非主流文字、姓名空缺很容易让你的邮件被忽略。
9. 包含简历的邮件里请至少写几句话，不要直接“你好，这是我的简历”，或者干脆什么都不写。
10. 姓名要统一。如果你用英文名，那么申请的每个环节都请用英文名（推荐信里、邮件签名处、面试中）。简历最上方的姓名为了和证件统一，可以写 Xiaoming "Sam" Zhang 或者 Xiaoming (Sam) Zhang。其他地方统一用 Sam Zhang。
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英文简历的内容和中文简历一样，要用动词短语写你具体都做了什么、给公司或学生团体带来了什么实质贡献，尽可能列一些数据。所有的动词都用过去式，每行第一个词首字母大写。
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以上建议只适用于真正需要英文办公、上学的环境。如果是中国雇主为了看你英文水平而向你索要英文简历，那还是直接把中文简历一字一字翻译过去比较合适。
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其他英语话题下的回答：
You can download Sheldon Cooper's Resume as a .doc file and use it as a template: Link.
(中文翻译 http://zhi.hu/UMeH. Thank you, @hint, for an awesome translation! )
Some details to consider,
- Use your school (name@school.edu) or professional (firstname.lastname@gmail.com) email as a sign of professionalism. At the very least, Gmail is seen as more trustworthy than Hotmail, Yahoo, QQ, etc. If you want to actually correspond with a different email, then tell the recruiter, "Here, it's more convenient for me to use this email - I check it more often" and then write your personal email at the top of the resume.
- Do not include your age or birthdate.
- Use active verbs in describing your work experience. For example, "organized", "researched", "designed", "implemented". Here's a good list. If you are describing your current position, use the present tense; past positions, past tense.
- If you have relevant work experience, put that above your education. Employers are more interested in what you're capable of doing, rather than what you've learned. Companies will always retrain you and teach you what you need to know for your position.
- Use correct spacing after punctuation. This isn't a big deal in Chinese, but in English, it's the difference between readable text and gibberish.
- No typos. Not a single typo. Have all your friends carefully proofread every line for typos.
- When you print your resume, do not use special paper sizes or weights. Print it on normal 8.5"x11" printer paper. Recruiters no longer care about resume paper. The different sizes actually make it harder for a recruiter to fit your resume in their folders.
- It's preferable to keep the resume to one page. Recruiters get hundreds, if not thousands, of resumes and they won't have to time to read anything beyond the first page. The common exceptions are academic resumes, such as PhD graduates, because the resume should list all the notable research and publications.
- If you are in college or have graduated from college, do not include anything from before college.
- Do not include hobbies and interests.
- Update your resume every 6 months.
If you're a student, then definitely go to your school's career center and ask somebody to help you edit your resume.
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Disclaimer: Sheldon Cooper is a fictional character from The Big Bang Theory. All rights for the use of this character belong to CBS Broadcasting Inc. The research articles cited also belong to their respective authors, not Sheldon Cooper.
p.s. I am nothing close to a theoretical physicist. If I've used any physics terms in ways that make no sense, please let me know in the comments and I'll try to fix them.
p.p.s. I also don't watch The Big Bang Theory. I picked Sheldon because I know the show is popular in China. If I've gotten any of his personal details wrong (like those dates), please let me know in the comments and I'll try to fix them. (Although, I did a lot of research to calculate those months and years, so if you think a date is wrong, then you'd better cite your sources =P )
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