Some intimidatingly fit students had a different view: 'Employers like to see it on a CV, ' they said.
But Gilbert came with a CV that included working with former world number ones Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick.
He said the Belfast man had an illustrious life which was "quite a CV, would we all have a CV like that".
McKinsey explicitly stated that they did not want a traditional resume, but a CV and that they would be happy to look through the whole thing.
He has no electoral experience and a CV which includes Baptist minister, mathematician, pizza executive, director of the Federal Reserve Bank and radio talk show host.
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LinkedIn slumbered for years when it was seen as a cv bulletin board for job seekers, but the recession boosted it all the way to an IPO.
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He said he has met his adviser only three times, some of the courses he was told he would be sent on have not happened and he has not even been asked to produce a CV.
With a CV that includes staging Miss Saigon and Sunset Boulevard and choreography for Martin Guerre and The Witches of Eastwick, Bob Avian returned to A Chorus Line when he was asked to direct the 2006 Broadway revival.
With a CV that includes top roles with the Conservative Party, the chancellorship of Oxford University, the governorship of Hong Kong and the House of Lords, Lord Patten is no stranger to the higher echelons of the British establishment.
Nick Cucinella, CEO at CareerBuilder China, advises graduates to have a CV in both English and Chinese, even if they don't speak the language, and that taking the initiative and targeting prospective employers and Chinese companies is the best path to a job.
With applicant tracking systems key words are everything, making a generic CV of little use.
Christopher Hill has a weighty CV, but does it prepare him for his next posting - as the US ambassador in Iraq?
This will cause companies to think long and hard before taking a new CV or other chronic use drug into clinical trials.
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Who makes a better business partner, a loyal friend or family member that you can trust or a relative stranger with a great CV but no relationship?
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When we had our first child, we decided that this would be the best time for my wife to pursue an MBA as it would allow her not to have a visible CV gap.
The reason is that a meta-analysis of the degludec major trials showed a potential adverse CV signal.
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From covering music festivals, writing for a newspaper in Toronto to late night American football broadcasts, the Dundonald man has a pretty varied CV.
At a subsequent General Medical Council (GMC) misconduct hearing in 2011, the doctor claimed the CV claims were a result of a copy and paste "mistake".
Sales are also strong at TalentDrive, a firm that makes CV-screening software which helps companies sort through thousands of applications.
Birmingham band The Carpels has already got a pretty impressive looking CV.
But still missing from his CV is a Classic winner - in Queen's Logic, he had the ante-post favourite for the 1, 000 Guineas in 2002 but a last-minute foot injury ruled her out of the running.
Increasingly, overseas business experience has become a well-scrutinized section in a top tech business leader CV.
An e-portfolio would also allow a user to build their CV online over many years.
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The early versions of the manuscript contained a blank table entitled "CV events"--which is standard jargon for cardiovascular events.
However, the Advisory Committee voted unanimously on a separate issue: they believe that a long term cardiovascular (CV) outcomes study needs to be done.
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"You can definitely gain a better first impression of candidates using a combination of video and CV rather than their CV only, " says Walter Hueber, chief executive of Cammio.
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