[astrodust]

Loanwords like résumé are accented. English may be allergic to accents, but it's not without them, especially if the word's been stolen wholesale from another language. "Noël", "señor",

Some styles of written English use things like coördinate instead of co-ordinate. This is, by some definitions, technically valid. There's a whole section in Wikipedia on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_terms_with_diacritical...

[geocar]

I understand what you're saying, but I don't think you understand what I'm saying.

Hiring managers are supposed to be professional, but they might see "r?sum?" because of a tech issue, or they might think you're foreign (and have an accent yourself). Much rarer is the hiring manager who is going to see those accent marks on a developer resume and prioritise it over someone without the accent marks.

If you're french-speaking, and for a french-speaking role, you may want to demonstrate this (and these issues should be moot), and I suppose if you're a graphic designer trying to demonstrate your aesthetics and typography, then we're talking about something else, but if you're a developer, you are potentially missing out on an audience by adding these things.

Also: Noel[1] is not typically accented and and Senor[2] wasn't originally accented. If you need to write coordinate[3] in your resume, I'd leave out the accents there as well.

[1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/noel

[2]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/senor

[3]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coordinate

[astrodust]

Easy on the hysteria here. If people see r?sum? they'll know what they're dealing with, it's not going to be some dark mystery.

Some people, believe it or not, have attention to detail and if they think the correct way to spell it is "résumé" then that's what they'll do. It's something that might be appreciated by some and ignored by others, but if you want to snub someone for using accents, I can't imagine the other trivial transgressions that set you off.

Webster's is also an American dictionary and would have you believe "colour" is spelled "color", so it's not relevant here except when discussing the specific and quirky American dialect.

[geocar]

> If people see r?sum? they'll know what they're dealing with, it's not going to be some dark mystery.

Why would anyone take that chance?

> if you want to snub someone for using accents, I can't imagine the other trivial transgressions that set you off.

Sometimes people are just having an off day. You might like them fine the rest of the time, but today they just got done dealing with three's customer service.

Again: why would anyone take that chance?

> Some people, believe it or not, have attention to detail and if they think the correct way to spell it is "résumé" then that's what they'll do. It's something that might be appreciated by some and ignored by others

Attention to detail means making a hardcopy on quality paper with a proper letter of introduction and references, and posting it in. If you're doing this, then I'll concede you might be right to use résumé.

However otherwise, there are absolutely more people who will be set off by seeing those accents. People who put them in, want to put them in because they think it's right, and if they actually had an attention to detail they'd think about how the other person is going to interact with their r?sum?.

> Webster's is also an American dictionary and would have you believe "colour" is spelled "color", so it's not relevant here except when discussing the specific and quirky American dialect.

A British company doesn't want a résumé, they want a CV.

American companies are asking for a "resume" which is a short summary, and it's in a different format. Most American hiring managers will not deal well with a British-style CV, and since we're talking about resumes, we're talking about an American hiring process -- the kind of process that landed Americans on the moon.

Also:

* https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/noel

* https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/coordinate