Comment on What to put on a CV when I have nothing to put there?
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Gotta love the dichotomy of “I have no skills” to “Anyways, I considered doing this in LaTeX or plain HTML”.
Mate, even you just understanding what LaTeX and HTML do, that requires so many skills which are not at all par for the course.
And I would actually take that quote from their posting at face value. I talked to the main recruiter at our company before and he told me that for entry level positions, the only thing they really care about is why the person believes this to be a good job for them. Have they done something similar as part of a hobby before and enjoyed it, for example?
Because ultimately, you will need to be taught a ton of things, no matter what your grades looked like or how many overachiever prizes you can list. And if you’re likely to quit after a few months, because it’s not the right job for you, then the company invested a lot of time teaching you, which isn’t going to pay off.
So, yeah, whatever made you consider this job posting, I would try to describe. Most of that will be in the cover letter, but if you’ve got specific skills or hobbies that you consider relevant, then throw those onto the CV.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
With HTML, I only meant something like basic 90s/early 2000s websites. That doesn’t really need much. For example, toastytech.com. Using tables for layout is probably not done anymore.
When it comes to LaTeX, we just had to use it for an assignment in school, so that’s where I came in contact with it.
And even that’s something I struggled with. The entire page was supposed to be a colored table. I’ve used tabularx, but it kept being slightly off the page. For some reason, wrapping it between
centerfixed it, but I don’t know what I did wrong there.It would have probably been easier if I did it in Overleaf (online LaTeX editing platform).
Instead, me being me, I was doing it last-minute. In a train. Full train, so I couldn’t even sit down to use a laptop, as such I had to use my phone. There are apparently some issues with texlive on Termux, so I didn’t run it locally.
Instead I had to SSH to my mini PC over Tailscale, edit the document using Vim, compile with
pdflatex, copy the PDF to my phone usingscp, view it, delete, browse around StackExchange (where I found someone mention thecenterworkaround), and repeat.On a phone, while standing in a moving train. Quite the user experience.
saimen@feddit.org 6 days ago
You have to understand that probably 99% of people wouldn’t be able to do that or even understand what you are talking about while at the same time there are a lot of businesses needing people to do stuff like that. Formal education is good and important but most of the time what you end up doing in your job you learn while doing the job.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That’s a nice anecdote to tell during the interview. Chances are that’ll be enough to get you the job.