[noisy_boy]

After years of using hacks in MS Word trying to make my CV look the way I wanted, one day I bit the bullet and wrote it in LaTeX. The amount of 3+ hours spent to learn LaTeX basics and doing the re-write were disproportionately low compared to the huge jump in the quality of the output. Having used troff for writing man pages eons ago, this blog makes me interested in learning groff to re-write my CV in it and compare the experience with that of LaTeX.

[scrlk]

As a counterpoint, I had to ditch my LaTeX CV when I realised that applicant tracking systems were struggling to properly parse the PDF.

Switching back to a simple Word template (no use of tables; just heading styles and bullet points) and submitting the .docx resolved these issues.

[gaws]

> (no use of tables; just heading styles and bullet points)

Couldn't you have done this with LaTeX anyway?

[tpoacher]

yikes! you must have felt so dirty having to do that!