You use the work hack but I do not think you know what it means.
That's right. I think the buzzword hack is just to gain attention
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
#62is there any repository with the FluentCV Desktop?
Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
My resume is in LaTeX and I love it and its easy to edit and it looks beautiful... but some jobs (and I'm not kidding here) will only accept resumes in an MS Word .doc format. I can't tell you how much butchering I had to to do get my resume in Word to look close to how nice it looks as a PDF.
latex2html -> html2rtf I've used that for years. No problems, though the odd jobsite's commented on formatting, giving me an opportunity to explain the generator ;-)
Hmm I like that idea! I'll have to try it out next time a company asks for a word doc.
Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
My resume is in LaTeX and I love it and its easy to edit and it looks beautiful... but some jobs (and I'm not kidding here) will only accept resumes in an MS Word .doc format. I can't tell you how much butchering I had to to do get my resume in Word to look close to how nice it looks as a PDF.
I'd be tempted to make an image of the PDF and insert it into a Word document so it fills the page, but that would probably have broken their workflow (Word's inline comments, perhaps) and dropped me straight into the reject pile.
From what I can tell, their general "workflow" is to shove the Word document into a parser that grabs your name, address, experience, education, etc. and puts it into a searchable format so that can filter on certain keywords. The reason they need to Word doc is because it's the only format their parser accepts...
Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
My resume is in LaTeX and I love it and its easy to edit and it looks beautiful... but some jobs (and I'm not kidding here) will only accept resumes in an MS Word .doc format. I can't tell you how much butchering I had to to do get my resume in Word to look close to how nice it looks as a PDF.
That kind of inflexibility seems like a good signal that you might not want to work there anyway.
I agree- unfortunately, sometimes I am desperate and end up taking the job for lack of other options :(
Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
latex2html -> html2rtf I've used that for years. No problems, though the odd jobsite's commented on formatting, giving me an opportunity to explain the generator ;-)
Hmm I like that idea! I'll have to try it out next time a company asks for a word doc.
Pandoc can probably produce docx directly, if that's your goal. Pandoc rocks.
Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#67It 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?
I'm looking forward to hacking this into apis/chrome extensions that will let me update my 10+ jobs profiles all at once.
Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
#68but...if I already have my CV in LaTeX why would I need it in this?
My resume is in LaTeX and I love it and its easy to edit and it looks beautiful... but some jobs (and I'm not kidding here) will only accept resumes in an MS Word .doc format. I can't tell you how much butchering I had to to do get my resume in Word to look close to how nice it looks as a PDF.
I don't think I've seen a job that required Word since about 2009, and back then I wasn't using LaTex so I didn't have the problem but don't any of the LaTex to word tools or services I see around work?