Lauren: The Resume.

Aneya and I have decided to get back on the job path, now that things are looking a little more normal in Santiago (we found bread today at the supermarket, still no 5-liter bottles of water). We've decided to focus on nonprofit jobs, they probably need the most help right now and it would be good for us.

But in preparing to get our noses back on the grindstone, I found out that a international CV is completely different from an American resume.

Here they want to know everything. Personality traits, if you're single or married, how many children you have, where you went to middle school (middle school!), and all schooling after that. Basically they want you on a piece of paper -- or several. It's common for them to run five pages, and you always include a head shot and full-body shot to make sure you fit the company's image.

In the U.S. that would be discrimination to not hire a woman because she has too many kids she'll need days off for or not hire someone because their image doesn't suit your company, but here it's totally kosher.

-- Lauren