Resume Vs. CV

Interested to know how you have got on with creating a CV to meet the expectations of the UK employers.

Have you spent time in job centres reformatting your resume/covering letter to CV?

I have a feeling this is going to be a tough one for me because I have never been expected to keep track of this sort of information and I have been in this field for 12+ yrs.

My husband used to hold a managers position in the UK (before moving to Canada), so he has had alot of experiences with them, but his were always geared towards IT/Web Design etc and I have a background in Social Service Work which proved to be a challenge for us when he had to reformat his to meet Canadian expectations. There is nothing on his that I could ever apply to mine and vice versa.

I figure that I have to put the work in to meet their expectations or I am at risk of being unemployed for much longer... all of my qualifications etc will already act as a strike against me because it will look so foreign, so I am hoping to get some input from others.

Thanks!

Your are correct to be concern about what UK employers typically expect, so my advice would be to search for UK CV examples, like I did:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/cvexamples.htm

But as to your "foreign" experience, I would think this would be an asset. Besides, you're not going to lie, are you?

It should really only be a format change.