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by lokar 920 days ago
It’s reasonably straightforward to produce a very nice resume/CV in LaTeX.
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crossroadsguy 920 days ago
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.

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quickthrower2 920 days ago
If I move away from Doc, it'll be to Markdown most likely, or some kind of paid generator thing.
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danaris 919 days ago
...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.
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erik_seaberg 919 days ago
Why isn’t it table stakes to accept PDF? Recruiters have been caught using Word to make false changes in a candidates’ résumé.
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lokar 917 days ago
IME they will always take PDF if you insist, and I recommend you do. It makes it harder for them to edit it.
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lobocinza 917 days ago
Pandoc easily converts back and forth and Libreoffice can edit docx.
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