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

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Post by scott_s »

SeanLuke wrote: post #57
scott_s wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm surprised you say that. We tend to say "The paper from XXXX-YYYY" where XXXX is a year, and YYYY is a conference or journal.

Sure. But it's my experience in grant panels or promotion and tenure committees that someone says "yeah but what about the paper on X?" and someone else says "which one?" and the response is "publication number seventeen". At any rate, numbering is de rigeur.

Well, that explains it. I'm far too junior to have been on any of those. And all of the hiring processes I've been involved with have come right out of grad school, or from a post-doc.

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

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Post by SeanLuke »

scott_s wrote: post #61
SeanLuke wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. But it's my experience in grant panels or promotion and tenure committees that someone says "yeah but what about the paper on X?" and someone else says "which one?" and the response is "publication number seventeen". At any rate, numbering is de rigeur.

Well, that explains it. I'm far too junior to have been on any of those. And all of the hiring processes I've been involved with have come right out of grad school, or from a post-doc.

BTW, I forgot to mention that the model you proposed would work except that it's very common for someone up for a job to have multiple papers in the same conference. So you see it in citation but not in CVs.

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

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Post by gipsies »

arnarbi wrote: post #14

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

You did an internship while being a PhD student? Just wondering if I'm seeing this right. Didn't know that was possible. Sounds very interesting though.

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

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Post by mturmon »

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…

For an old-fashioned academic CV, you have to include every publication, leaving nothing out. (So, you can pay a price for that brief dabbling in fuzzy logic -- it hangs around forever.) By mid-career, the CV can run to many pages.

Once you reach that point, you have to also maintain a short version (maybe 2-3 pages), and a short-short version (1 page), usually for proposal submissions, brief bios, etc.

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

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Post by batista »

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…

>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.

You'll be lucky if they give them a quick glance.

"Discuss them by number"? Only in academia or fantasy-land IMHO.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

batista wrote: post #65
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…

> 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. You'll be lucky if they give them a quick glance. "Discuss them by number"? Only in academia or fantasy-land IMHO.

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

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Post by Timothee »

tonfa wrote: post #45
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.

The school (i.e. ENS Lyon), honestly I understand that it's there, but the high school and prep school? Probably not necessary. (even if it's Louis Legrand… :) )

To be fair with France, I would be surprised if Stanford grads don't mention it on their resumes even years after their graduated.

And to be fair with French schools, it seems to me that they're overall less elitists than US colleges, especially by the simple fact that they don't cost $20-50k a year. (thinking of colleges like Stanford, not State universities) The job market after graduation is certainly elitist in the sense that grads from the better schools will often be preferred just because of their diploma, but the schools themselves are for the most part open to anybody who can rank well at the exams. (disclosure: I'm from one of these "elite schools", but I certainly don't get to "enjoy" it as much because I live in the US. Meaning I doubt employers have any idea what school this is)

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