Wait there are other ways to write a resume?
Comment on LPT Do it.
notthebees@reddthat.com 6 months ago
I should write my resume in LaTeX.
magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 6 months ago
prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I know it’s a long video but you have no idea what’s possible.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub 6 months ago
HTML. Some it people have their CV on their personal website.
magnor@lemmy.magnor.ovh 6 months ago
I do too, by embedding a pdf :p.
Oh, maybe I should try mathjax…
v_krishna@lemmy.ml 6 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…”
urda@lebowski.social 6 months ago
I have it is so worth it. I then use GitHub / GitLab releases to “release” a built PDF for my reference.
bl_r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 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
Vorticity@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I do this using overleaf. It’s been much easier to maintain and update since switching.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 6 months ago
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.justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
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)
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
But I need to add that I never made it work for me because they are not really good for scientific CVs
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 6 months ago
Interesting, but not appealing to me.
I have already been enchanted bydiscountand mesmerised bykramdown.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I like this idea. What tool do you use for converting the markdown to html?
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 6 months ago
kramdownanddiscountare 2 fun little tools.kramdownis more fully featured and is a Ruby Gem.discountis made in C and is more suitable if you are using it in an on-the-fly render process, but it has lesser functionality.
CorvidCawder@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Done it and highly recommend it
prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
CorvidCawder@sh.itjust.works 6 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).
fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Overleaf probably has a template.
prashanthvsdvn@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.