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by jxf 4458 days ago
LaTeX has a lot of excellent resume templates that don't look cluttered or messy and feel pretty clean, IMO. In that vein, WriteLaTeX is a great and free/cheap online tool that I think does a fantastic job of getting you up and running with editing: https://www.writelatex.com/

Here's a resume I made with WriteLaTeX, for example: http://goo.gl/30bBSM
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munrocape 4458 days ago
I found shareLaTeX's collection to be great.[1] The sources of them are available with some Googling and slight modifications should give anyone the difference to stand out provided someone else used the same template.

[1] https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/cv-or-resume

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martiuk 4458 days ago
I've used a LaTeX CV before and usually (probably 100% of the time) the recruiter wants a .doc to edit in lies rather than the pdf.

Probably why you can get called into an interview for a job you don't have the experience for sometimes.

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gutnor 4458 days ago
Even if it is not lies. I have seen several legitimate cases:

1. The agent reformat you resume in a common standard.

2. The agent add a custom section with the result of their "screening" and other client specific requests.

3. The HR of the client needs .doc

4. Client want to receive a single file with everything for a single candidate.

Agent is a shitty job. Sure when you place a candidate, there is a huge payday, but you still need to get through a lot of boasting candidates and clueless customers for which you will make no money at all. Also most companies would not be able to recognize that a candidate that is like Linus for a linux kernel job.

edit: not defending them. But I have some sympathy - they hear me whining about a company giving me an extra 5K a year when I make 4 times more than them.

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gomox 4458 days ago
IMHO LaTeX is better than an ASCII resume, but it really isn't very good for the task. Resumes, because of their length and size constraints, really benefit from some careful massaging of layout.

Not that fancy engineer resumes are needed with the market being what it is these days, but you would probably achieve much better results by using a design-oriented tool. Even Word and LibreOffice allow you to arrange things with more precision these days.

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fnordfnordfnord 4458 days ago
see also: https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/
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