[quickthrower2]

I agree. This requires a healthy workplace though.

I worked somewhere, well two places where I was literally taken to task about how long something took. Repeatedly. They didn’t care about why, just that it wont happen again.

It didn’t: in both cases it’s time to fire up Word again and edit my CV (pretty much the one reason I use that program!)

[lokar]

It’s reasonably straightforward to produce a very nice resume/CV in LaTeX.

[crossroadsguy]

Maybe. But that’s like learning to build a car and then building one and fine tuning one because I had to go to an office 200 meters away once in a few years.

Yeah, I did Texin’ in college and tried after that as well. No body gave a shit and now when I look at CVs for hiring purposes I don’t give a shit either. Now my CV is on a live.com free throwaway account — that’s where it resides and gets worked upon and converted to PDF when needed.

[quickthrower2]

If I move away from Doc, it'll be to Markdown most likely, or some kind of paid generator thing.

[danaris]

...and then you find that you have to go back and do another one in Word, for the places that will only accept a .docx as input.

[erik_seaberg]

Why isn’t it table stakes to accept PDF? Recruiters have been caught using Word to make false changes in a candidates’ résumé.

[lokar]

IME they will always take PDF if you insist, and I recommend you do. It makes it harder for them to edit it.

[lobocinza]

Pandoc easily converts back and forth and Libreoffice can edit docx.