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

#31

Post by dedward »

orky56 wrote: post #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

As an aside, I would drop the very informal use of "thru" and use "through". I almost said "Thru is not a word" - but some searching says it's made it's way into dictionaries, to my surprise (and probably to many others my age, you run the risk of having that word jump off the page as a mis-spell that is only used in online text messaging or as a shorthand, not formal writing. Or maybe I'm just getting old...

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

#32

Post by orky56 »

dedward wrote: post #31
orky56 wrote: post #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

As an aside, I would drop the very informal use of "thru" and use "through". I almost said "Thru is not a word" - but some searching says it's made it's way into dictionaries, to my surprise (and probably to many others my age, you run the risk of having that word jump off the page as a mis-spell that is only used in online text messaging or as a shorthand, not formal writing. Or maybe I'm just getting old...

Valid point. I'll definitely change that. Thanks for the feedback!

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

#33

Post by SeanLuke »

dabeeeenster wrote: post #5

3 pages is too many!

It's a CV, not a resume.

In the US, CVs are used largely by academics and researchers in lieu of resumes. In addition to the standard resume stuff (but usually omitting things like "objectives" and "skills"), CVs include your publications, presentations, professional service, products and patents etc., and in some cases grants and teaching experience. All of it. Unlike resumes, CVs can go on as long as needed.

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

#35

Post by orky56 »

orky56 wrote: post #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

If interested in checking out password-protected items in my portfolio, shoot me an email and I can give you access. (Email is on my HN profile.)

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

#36

Post by thisAintNoGame »

levesque wrote: post #22
arnarbi wrote: post #14

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

I think you should put journal publications before conference publications, as they are generally regarded as more important.

That depends on field. In most areas of computer science, conferences are more important than journals (journals generally just publish extended conference papers).

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

#37

Post by baddox »

SeanLuke wrote: post #33
dabeeeenster wrote: post #5

3 pages is too many!

It's a CV, not a resume. In the US, CVs are used largely by academics and researchers in lieu of resumes. In addition to the standard resume stuff (but usually omitting things like "objectives" and "skills"), CVs include your publications, presentations, professional service, products and patents etc., and in some cases grants and teaching experience. All of it. Unlike resumes, CVs can go on as long as needed.

I understand that the length is standard for a CV, but I can't imagine a situation where the third page of any document would change someone's mind about you in consideration for a job, grant, or other opportunity. Wouldn't it still make more sense to distribute a single page with a curated subset of your work, perhaps with a URL to a more exhaustive CV?

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

#38

Post by jvm »

aggronn wrote: post #30
arnarbi wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a US resume, yes - not for an European CV of a researcher.

CV's in general imply a research/academic role--its the same in the US, CV's should be multi-page.

In Canada, CV == Resumé. I think it can depend based on country. Of course, for researchers, no matter what, you make it as long as it needs to be.

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

#40

Post by [deleted] »

dedward wrote: post #31
orky56 wrote: post #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

As an aside, I would drop the very informal use of "thru" and use "through". I almost said "Thru is not a word" - but some searching says it's made it's way into dictionaries, to my surprise (and probably to many others my age, you run the risk of having that word jump off the page as a mis-spell that is only used in online text messaging or as a shorthand, not formal writing. Or maybe I'm just getting old...

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