All 6 Uses

resume
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The Help
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I'd seen the ad in The New York Times down at the Ole Miss library and mailed them my résumé that very day.
Chpt 5

resume = a written, brief summary of a person's qualifications to do something
I am responding personally to your résumé because I found it admirable that a young lady with absolutely no work experience would apply for an editing job at a publisher as prestigious as ours.
Chpt 6
I hand him my résumé and sample articles I'd written in school.
Chpt 6 *
I find myself laughing instead, and I tell her what I've told no one else, about the phone calls and the résumé I'd sent to Harper & Row.
Chpt 6
A month ago, I mailed out fifteen résumés to Dallas, Memphis, Birmingham, and five other cities, and once again, New York.
Chpt 33

resumes = brief written summaries of qualifications for a job
When I addressed my résumé to the New York Post, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker magazine, I felt that surge again, the same I'd felt in college, of how much I want to be there.
Chpt 33

resume = a written, brief summary of a person's qualifications to do something

Definitions:

(1) (resume as in: resume the meeting)
begin or take again

This sense of resume generally means to begin again or continue after a pause. In usage like, "resumed her seat", it scan also mean to take again.
(2) (résumé as in: submitted her résumé)
a brief summary of a person's qualifications to do something -- typically submitted with an employment application

In practice, résumé is often written without the accented e's.
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, résumé can refer to any summary.