Am I just a cranky curmudgeon if I think that the most clear, elegant, and easy-to-read resume format is still Michael DeCorte's 1989 LaTeX template?
Context please. :)
HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
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Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#32Am I just a cranky curmudgeon if I think that the most clear, elegant, and easy-to-read resume format is still Michael DeCorte's 1989 LaTeX template?
Context please. :)
This is the OP sample: http://please.hackmyresume.com/jane/resume
It's certainly a step up from a docx but just not that great of a template based on the criteria I named.
It seems to me the template itself is the most important differentiating characteristic of a product like the OP. I understand it accepts custom templates, but that one above is the only sample I found.
Here's my own old-school resume with the DeCorte template: http://static.coshx.com/kopley_resume.pdf
Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#33Couldn't find an example of a generated résumé or themes.
Maybe you missed it, or maybe I'm misunderstanding your question: https://jsonresume.org/themes/. Click the Preview button.
Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Context please. :)
This is the OP sample: http://please.hackmyresume.com/jane/resume It's certainly a step up from a docx but just not that great of a template based on the criteria I named. It seems to me the template itself is the most important differentiating characteristic of a product like the OP. I understand it accepts custom templates, but that one above is the only sample I found. Here's my own old-school resume with the DeCo…
That's nice. I've been using LaTeX's moderncv template for years and I was looking for a change, specially because in moderncv, the dates are on the left side and when you input a range (say, september 2010 - january 2011) it ends up all cramped.
BTW, do you have the base style for that uploaded somewhere?
Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#35It seems to do a great job for what it claims to do, but I don't really understand the need for such a tool. How often do you update your CV that you need an automated tool to do it? And why would you need it in 10 different formats?
Ten might be overkill, but I really want to have an html version hosted online as well as a PDF version with the same content and LaTeX-quality typesetting (my current resume is written in LaTeX). There's some hacky tools out there for taking a resume in markdown and making html + pdf, but nothing really satisfactory, so I'm thinking this might be exactly what I've been looking for.
Problem is, your CV should be optimised for the format in which you are looking at it. A Word and PDF version should be no more than 2 sides of A4, with the page break at a logical place. HTML should be interactive, with widgets that show relevant content.
Web design is fundamentally different to print design, and your CV should show that you understand that. So you should be able to make a Word version save that to PDF, then re-write and redesign the content for the web page.
Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the OP sample: http://please.hackmyresume.com/jane/resume It's certainly a step up from a docx but just not that great of a template based on the criteria I named. It seems to me the template itself is the most important differentiating characteristic of a product like the OP. I understand it accepts custom templates, but that one above is the only sample I found. Here's my own old-school resume with the DeCo…
That's nice. I've been using LaTeX's moderncv template for years and I was looking for a change, specially because in moderncv, the dates are on the left side and when you input a range (say, september 2010 - january 2011) it ends up all cramped. BTW, do you have the base style for that uploaded somewhere?
That is one of the most famous LaTeX resume templates, so there's a lot of examples of it online.
Here's one: https://github.com/elizabrock/LaTeX-Resume
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#37I would love for there to be a formalized CV standard to avoid having to reenter the info on your resume into a job application.
There is XML standard https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/home
HR XML has a lot of tooling around it: http://www.hropenstandards.org
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#38It seems to do a great job for what it claims to do, but I don't really understand the need for such a tool. How often do you update your CV that you need an automated tool to do it? And why would you need it in 10 different formats?
If your job is the type where you're on the same team/project for years on end doing basically more of the same thing from month to month, then I can understand why you wouldn't necessarily see the value in this kind of tool.
I update mine once every 2-4 months or so, whenever I complete a project, earn a certification, take a course or work (professionally) with a new technology.
Having 10 different formats does sound a bit like overkill, but I don't think that is a reason that the OP would want to ignore or exclude any that users would find useful. Personally, I keep about 3-4 (linkedin, .doc, .pdf, .htm).
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ten might be overkill, but I really want to have an html version hosted online as well as a PDF version with the same content and LaTeX-quality typesetting (my current resume is written in LaTeX). There's some hacky tools out there for taking a resume in markdown and making html + pdf, but nothing really satisfactory, so I'm thinking this might be exactly what I've been looking for.
Problem is, your CV should be optimised for the format in which you are looking at it. A Word and PDF version should be no more than 2 sides of A4, with the page break at a logical place. HTML should be interactive, with widgets that show relevant content. Web design is fundamentally different to print design, and your CV should show that you understand that. So you should be able to make a Word version save that to…
That's an opinion that not everyone holds, and doesn't necessarily hold for all sorts of people/positions. If you do design-heavy types of work, then it makes a lot of sense to heavily optimize for the format. If not, then that's just window dressing on a format that is used to convey information.
I highly interactive web-based resume for a lawyer or accountant might seem silly in that community (and some of my lawyer/account friends agree).
Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ten might be overkill, but I really want to have an html version hosted online as well as a PDF version with the same content and LaTeX-quality typesetting (my current resume is written in LaTeX). There's some hacky tools out there for taking a resume in markdown and making html + pdf, but nothing really satisfactory, so I'm thinking this might be exactly what I've been looking for.
Problem is, your CV should be optimised for the format in which you are looking at it. A Word and PDF version should be no more than 2 sides of A4, with the page break at a logical place. HTML should be interactive, with widgets that show relevant content. Web design is fundamentally different to print design, and your CV should show that you understand that. So you should be able to make a Word version save that to…
In an optimal sense, I agree with you, but I don't have the skill/time/desire to make a really awesome web version as you describe, and would be quite happy with one that roughly mirrors the printable version. There's always LinkedIn too, which gives some of that interactivity.
Further, this (really the underlying JSON resume schema) could be a great starting point for a fancier web-resume generator working from the same content.