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

#41

Post by lamby »

SeanLuke wrote: post #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 \cv…

> when you apply for a job people will refer to your publication by number when discussing your CV

Err, really? Seems to me like they would just say "the paper on wireless networks" or "the one about spreading stuff on blogs" like normal people.

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

#42

Post by Timothee »

It looks from other comments that CVs are slightly different than resumes (I really had no idea, I just thought "resume" was a wording preference in the US), but I'll question your mention of your high school and "classes prépa"… M.Sc. from ENS Lyon >>> whatever high school/prep school you went to.

I have recently revamped my resume with one goal of removing unnecessary or irrelevant information. E.g. I removed my street address (why would companies need that before a job offer? Not sure, but it's a custom). Granted I then went overboard design-wise and probably added a lot of graphically irrelevant things. :)

That being said, yours looks great.

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

#43

Post by jordanb »

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...

Thru is used on highway signage quite a bit, "Thru traffic must stay left" etc. No doubt it began as a necessity: fitting a long word on a constrained sign. But its use by officialdom must have been hard for dictionaries to resist.

I believe the -ough construct was one Noah Webster tried to purge from American English, along with ph- and the extra 'u' in au and ou. He succeeded on the last points but not on the former.

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

#45

Post by tonfa »

Timothee wrote: post #42

It looks from other comments that CVs are slightly different than resumes (I really had no idea, I just thought "resume" was a wording preference in the US), but I'll question your mention of your high school and "classes prépa"… M.Sc. from ENS Lyon >>> whatever high school/prep school you went to. I have recently revamped my resume with one goal of removing unnecessary or irrelevant information. E.g. I removed my st…

> I'll question your mention of your high school and "classes prépa"… M.Sc. from ENS Lyon >>> whatever high school/prep school you went to.

It's France, showing off the elitist school you went to is important, even years after graduating.

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

#46

Post by drivebyacct2 »

kurtsiegfried wrote: post #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

I hate fb://. It's not a real url and thus it's just as silly as me://firstname.lastname as if it were a valid URL for people to type in their browser.

Further, who wants employers to see their Facebook? I understand that not everyone has pictures of them drinking on it, but I can't say I've ever seen a personal profile be used as anything that would be relevant to random members of the public, let alone an employer.

That having been said, I just noticed Preview behind Chrome here and the words "social network analyst", so I suppose it makes a bit more sense for this particular persons' CV.

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

#47

Post by drivebyacct2 »

dabeeeenster wrote: post #5

3 pages is too many!

I don't understand this sentiment. What am I supposed to do? Even coming into college, my list of significant (and/or self-launched) projects and work experiences were too many to list on a single page alongside my education and list of "skills" (languages mostly). I spent a loooot of time making it look great and utilize space efficiency and I feel like a Chinese foot-binder whenever I get a new job or publish a new project and want to put it on my resume.

Are we finally to the age where I can put "Please check out http://mypersonalwebsite.com for a detailed list of skills and projects"? I feel like my Resume would be a fluffy arbitrary list of skills with no ummph to back it up and frankly I don't trust the recruiters at high profile tech companies anywhere near enough to do something like this. I've had recruiters doing phone screenings that didn't know what "Windows" vs "Windows Live Services" meant.

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

#48

Post by adeelk »

lamby wrote: post #41
SeanLuke wrote: post #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 \cv…

> when you apply for a job people will refer to your publication by number when discussing your CV Err, really? Seems to me like they would just say "the paper on wireless networks" or "the one about spreading stuff on blogs" like normal people.

It’s pretty common to have several papers on the same topic.

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

#49

Post by dice »

gmac wrote: post #24

Very pretty. If I had a criticism, it would be that the application of colour to the first three letters of headings seems random and a little annoying (e.g. INTerests, EDUcation and -- especially -- ONLine).

I was really hoping after seeing the first (INTerests) that the rest would somehow work in STR, CON, CHA, WIS, and DEX.
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