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Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by sh_123 »

chrissnell wrote: post #6

I've been using this one for my resume and I love it: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/res.cls As a hiring manager, I much prefer simpler resumes that are easy to scan. I don't really like the "five stars" self-rating stuff, however. It feels a little strange to distill one's language knowledge down to a number. One thing I do love is when people include some of their notable open source projects. T…

You wouldn't happen to have a repo of your LaTeX resume? It looks great and would love to use yours as a guide.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by Y_Y »

chrissnell wrote: post #6

I've been using this one for my resume and I love it: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/res.cls As a hiring manager, I much prefer simpler resumes that are easy to scan. I don't really like the "five stars" self-rating stuff, however. It feels a little strange to distill one's language knowledge down to a number. One thing I do love is when people include some of their notable open source projects. T…

Starting with your "Passions" felt really offputting and weird. I don't think that that list is stuff you are genuinely "passionate" about. That said I, I don't hire people, maybe it's effective.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by cbuq »

chrissnell wrote: post #6

I've been using this one for my resume and I love it: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/res.cls As a hiring manager, I much prefer simpler resumes that are easy to scan. I don't really like the "five stars" self-rating stuff, however. It feels a little strange to distill one's language knowledge down to a number. One thing I do love is when people include some of their notable open source projects. T…

Wanted to add that I also dislike rating language proficiency on a scale.

If you have 5/5 for a language, I expect you to be as knowledgeable as the authors of the language

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by Wehrdo »

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like LaTeX is not an efficient way to create a resume, unless you are very skilled with LaTeX macros and can essentially create your own "template", or modify someone else's. If you don't have those skills, you end up with a very bland, "stock LaTeX document"-looking resume, of which half the LaTeX resumes I see people share look like.

I once tried to redo my resume in LaTeX, and after finding a decent-looking template, spent a lot of time fighting it to do simple things that weren't built in, like add my GPA to my school listing. In the Limecv template, what if I don't want the "stats" bars? Better go browse through a 2000-line template that I didn't write to figure out how to remove them.

I ended up actually doing my resume in HTML/CSS, which provided me the flexibility to lay things out exactly how I wanted, which was quite nice. The main difficulty I had was getting a consistent PDF layout, as Chrome's PDF print is pretty much a black box that you have no control over.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by LVB »

B1narySunset wrote: post #3

Do any interviewers notice resumes that are written in LaTeX compared to ones that aren't?

I must say, I was happy to come across this after putting in the not insignificant effort of converting my resume into a nice looking LaTeX document: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/resume_comic.png

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by d0mine »

cbuq wrote: post #13
chrissnell wrote: post #6

I've been using this one for my resume and I love it: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/res.cls As a hiring manager, I much prefer simpler resumes that are easy to scan. I don't really like the "five stars" self-rating stuff, however. It feels a little strange to distill one's language knowledge down to a number. One thing I do love is when people include some of their notable open source projects. T…

Wanted to add that I also dislike rating language proficiency on a scale. If you have 5/5 for a language, I expect you to be as knowledgeable as the authors of the language

The author of the language is not necessarily the most knowledgeable in how to use it.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by Xophmeister »

B1narySunset wrote: post #3

Do any interviewers notice resumes that are written in LaTeX compared to ones that aren't?

Yep; it’s obviously not a deal breaker/winner, but we definitely notice. I once joked that we ought to mark up candidates with LaTeX CVs, but knock them slightly down if they stuck with Computer Modern :)

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by tom_mellior »

I find this looks to busy, but I guess that's partly because the example tries to show off as many features as possible.

Personally, I use moderncv: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv/ It doesn't look very fancy, but it's actually simple and clean. (See the exaples directory.)

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by michaelmior »

Wehrdo wrote: post #14

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like LaTeX is not an efficient way to create a resume, unless you are very skilled with LaTeX macros and can essentially create your own "template", or modify someone else's. If you don't have those skills, you end up with a very bland, "stock LaTeX document"-looking resume, of which half the LaTeX resumes I see people share look like. I once tried to redo my resume in LaT…

While some LaTeX templates are more unwieldy, in the case of Limecv, if you don't want the stats bars, just don't include the macro that adds them. It's not always so terrible.
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