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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 chrissnell »

Y_Y wrote: post #12
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.

A hiring manager needs an easy way to see what you're all about. Many candidates put a word cloud of technologies and software here but I've found that people are often pretty weak on many things included here. Word clouds don't have any context, either. The hiring manager has know way of knowing if this person knows just a little bit of a technology or if they do it all day, every day.

I call them "passions" because these are what I love to do at work. I'm confident about talking at length about any of them.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by username223 »

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…

Speaking as someone with a LaTeX résumé, I agree with you. I use it because it's the typesetting tool with which I am most comfortable, not because it's the best tool for the job. I would never use HTML/CSS to create a résumé, but that's because I am bad at using them.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by benou »

username223 wrote: post #22
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…

Speaking as someone with a LaTeX résumé, I agree with you. I use it because it's the typesetting tool with which I am most comfortable, not because it's the best tool for the job. I would never use HTML/CSS to create a résumé, but that's because I am bad at using them.

I "ported" moderncv LaTeX style in simple XHTML/CSS a while ago here: http://www.benou.fr/~ben/cv/cv.en.ganne.html Feel free to clone it if you find it useful. I use both moderncv for PDF and this for web-based resume.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by denzil_correa »

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…

> Also: never, ever put a photograph of yourself in your resume. You're just asking for someone to judge you based on your looks, gender, age, or ethnicity. Likewise, don't put your age. If you've been around for a while, trim everything but the last 5-10 years of positions off your resume to avoid the unfortunate but oh-so-common ageism. Even old hiring managers can be ageist! Don't give anyone a chance to judge you on irrelevant characteristics until you've firmly established your appeal to the employer.

In Germany, you ALWAYS put a photograph in your resume.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by StavrosK »

denzil_correa wrote: post #24
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…

> Also: never, ever put a photograph of yourself in your resume. You're just asking for someone to judge you based on your looks, gender, age, or ethnicity. Likewise, don't put your age. If you've been around for a while, trim everything but the last 5-10 years of positions off your resume to avoid the unfortunate but oh-so-common ageism. Even old hiring managers can be ageist! Don't give anyone a chance to judge you…

Here, you can use this one: https://portfolio.stavros.io/escapism/escapism@973.jpg

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by pantalaimon »

denzil_correa wrote: post #24
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…

> Also: never, ever put a photograph of yourself in your resume. You're just asking for someone to judge you based on your looks, gender, age, or ethnicity. Likewise, don't put your age. If you've been around for a while, trim everything but the last 5-10 years of positions off your resume to avoid the unfortunate but oh-so-common ageism. Even old hiring managers can be ageist! Don't give anyone a chance to judge you…

It depends on where you apply I guess.

I work at a startup and we get a mixed amount of applications with a photo and without, doesn't really make a difference for us.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by taeric »

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…

The part that has been highly efficient for me, is that I can still build my resume today. Adding to it will not break it, and it is just editing a text file then running make. Printing it next year will print the same as this year. Stability is very comfortable.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by abritinthebay »

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…

LaTeX is not an efficient way to create anything.

But, to be fair, it's not supposed to be efficient - it's supposed to be consistent.

But I really wish it was less painful to use.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by sjy »

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…

I agree. I love LaTeX and spent many hours building a YAML/Markdown document that could be compiled to PDF with a custom LaTeX template, or HTML with custom CSS. But after using that for a year or two, I switched back to Word because it was just too painful trying to get the document to fit nicely on two pages without a WYSIWYG editor.

Re: Limecv – A LaTeX CV Document Class

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Post by tempay »

jedberg wrote: post #7
B1narySunset wrote: post #3

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

I definitely do. I automatically give plus points in my head even though I know I shouldn't.

Should you not?

I'm sure having a LaTeX CV correlates well with other skills which you might deem desirable and, if so, it seems like a perfectly reasonable indicator to use. It shouldn't be used exclusively, but nothing should be.

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