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Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]

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Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]

#11
Since when is black-and-white "ugly"? What if the person looking at it first prints it on paper and then reads it offline? If I were ever to make a color CV, I'd make sure that it looks ok printed on a laser, BW printer. Or I'd make another version for BW only.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]

#12
post #11

Since when is black-and-white "ugly"? What if the person looking at it first prints it on paper and then reads it offline? If I were ever to make a color CV, I'd make sure that it looks ok printed on a laser, BW printer. Or I'd make another version for BW only.

Just trying to be witty, I've renamed the option "print". But basically the idea is exactly what you suggested: have a version which can render OK on print and where you can specify exactly what shades of gray are used in print (or plain black).

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]

#15
post #14

Flashy. Mine's also on github: https://github.com/arnar/cv PDF: http://www.hvergi.net/arnar/public/cv.pdf

Bookmarked. I like yours better than the one above because of its simplicity. I have also have a plain Latex CV, but you chose better font types, sizes and widths for columns so it reads better than mine. Next time I do my CV, I'll probably use your template.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]

#17
Here's my resume: http://www.ideaember.com/resume

It's important to stick to the constraints of the medium. Lots of whitespace and visuals for online and one page for print. Also important to stay consistent with the rest of the site. Still looking for a clever way to integrate my portfolio directly into the resume without making the resume too cluttered.

P.S. In the market for a product management opportunity

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]

#18

3 pages is too many!

There's nothing wrong with three pages per se - if there is something relevant to put on them. In this case, it just barely overflows into the third page, so IMO it would make good sense, and look a bit more professional, to tighten it slightly to fit on two.

Alternatively, make it a bit longer, so the third page is less empty. English titles of the French papers would make good sense. Also, I'd write a narrative for the intro instead of the "keyword list" (interests).

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]

#19
There's a problem with this CV: the publications are not numbered.

That's not just a nitpick. It's important. CVs grow to many pages of publications and when you apply for a job people will refer to your publication by number when discussing your CV with one another.

I do publication numbering like this:

    \usepackage{bibentry}


    %% cventry facility.  Use \begin{cventries} and \end{cventries},
    %% and in between you do \cventry[note]{bibkey}.
    %% Numbering will go across cventry values
    \newcommand\cventry[2][]{\item\bibentry{#2}.  {\bf #1}}
    \newcounter{cventryg}
    \setcounter{cventryg}{0}
    \newenvironment{cventries}{%
            \begin{enumerate}%
            \setcounter{enumi}{\the\value{cventryg}}}{%
            \setcounter{cventryg}{\the\value{enumi}}%
            \end{enumerate}}

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my CV template [Helvetica, XeTeX, TikZ & Biblatex]

#20
Very nice, I like the phrasing of: "Since 2009" instead of 2009 to present, and the fb://username instead of long URL.

Mine is on GitHub as well, though in the form of a web service serving JSON objects instead of XeTeX.

https://github.com/kurtsiegfried/Resume-Web-Service

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