Resume

A resume is the document that summarizes your professional track record —experience, education, skills and achievements— so a company can decide whether to call you for an interview. In Latin America the same document is called "hoja de vida" or "CV", but it helps to know what each market expects when it asks for one or the other.

Resume, CV and hoja de vida: the difference

• Resume: the short version —one or two pages— tailored to a specific role. It's what US companies and most multinationals expect to receive.
• CV (curriculum vitae): across most of Latin America it's a synonym for resume. In academia and in Europe, though, it means a complete record —publications, research, teaching— with no page limit.
• Hoja de vida: the everyday name in countries like Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela for the same short, role-focused document.

The practical rule: for corporate openings in Latin America, the three names converge on the same document — short, focused on measurable results and adjusted to each role. What changes between countries is the name, not what the recruiter wants to read.

Which format ATS software prefers

Before it reaches a human, your resume goes through an ATS that converts it into plain text. The format that best survives that filter:

• A single column, standard fonts and recognizable section headings ("Experience", "Education").
• PDF or Word files generated from text, never from a design with tables, icons or images.
• The posting's keywords written literally, not paraphrased.
• No photo embedded in the layout: several countries in the region no longer even ask for one.

How Ingenium works on this

Ingenium's 22-point employability diagnostic checks whether your resume communicates achievements and survives ATS screening. Then the first step of the Career Accelerator gets your base documents ready —resume, cover letter and LinkedIn— with a Career Coach's review before you start applying.