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[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I should write my resume in LaTeX.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Done it and highly recommend it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do you have a good LaTeX template for it. I did make a data driven based LaTeX pdf for my resume but it’s a nightmare when applying for jobs these days, since they have that ATS parser nonsense, which will throw the entire resume down if it isn’t as very plain and boring word document without much formatting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It depends heavily on region. I personally don't think I ever had issues with parsers. I used the awesome CV template as a base. It's fairly simple while still not being completely boring. You can find it on GitHub or overleaf iirc (it's been a while).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Overleaf probably has a template.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Overleaf have hundreds of them. The problem is not the availability or using them. The problem is before your resume reaches a human, it is filtered via a ATS parser and generally it doesn’t like any fancy formatting. So unless your resume is machine readable, it automatically trashes your resume out.

I was vehemently sitting on my Data driven LaTeX typeset resume for months but didn’t have much success until I took a plain old word template and ported everything there. It is what it is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ever see StirlingPDF? You can just get it into a PDF then make sure it is compatible with that tool. It's a Swiss Army Knife.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wait there are other ways to write a resume?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I know it’s a long video but you have no idea what’s possible.

https://youtu.be/cMlRAiQUdD8

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

HTML. Some it people have their CV on their personal website.

(And CSS and JS, I guess)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I do too, by embedding a pdf :p.

Oh, maybe I should try mathjax...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Haha my first thought seeing this meme is "do you want to start writing LaTeX by hand? Because this is how you start..."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I have it is so worth it. I then use GitHub / GitLab releases to “release” a built PDF for my reference.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I do this using overleaf. It's been much easier to maintain and update since switching.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I wrote mine in LaTeX, highly recommend.

I mean, I spent years writing LaTeX for school so it was real simple and mindless. YMMV

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have enjoyed switching mine to HTML format which I then generate a PDF from. The only downside is that different browsers can render stuff slightly different, but that's normally fixable with one line css change. And it's not like I need to update my resume constantly on different machines.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I was on Word, then LibreOffice Writer.
Now thinking of making it a markdown source, with CSS styling to get an HTML based PDF. This way, the same source can be used on a webpage with different generation code.

This seems to me, to be simpler than L^A^T~E~X, but still good enough for a resume.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There is a standard called json-resume with a lot of generators for html and pdf or react-resume which is more like a CMS (not entirely sure about spelling, to lazy to search for it now)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

But I need to add that I never made it work for me because they are not really good for scientific CVs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Interesting, but not appealing to me.
I have already been enchanted by discount and mesmerised by kramdown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like this idea. What tool do you use for converting the markdown to html?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

kramdown and discount are 2 fun little tools.

  • kramdown is more fully featured and is a Ruby Gem.
  • discount is made in C and is more suitable if you are using it in an on-the-fly render process (∵ lesser CPU cycles), but it has lesser ~~functionality~~ features.