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Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy

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Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy

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Post by Aurornis »

ruthmarx wrote: post #10

I've been using LaTeX for mine for years and never looked back. I have it setup in such a way that I just comment or uncomment a few lins at the start and can easily include or exclude, or adjust, types of skills, work experience, length, etc. Always produces a nice, easy to clean minimal pdf that has some protections against recruiters trying to copy and paste and change things.

Mine is also in LaTeX. Every 3-5 years I get a nice reminder of the nightmare that is cobbling together a fully functional LaTeX dev environment to work on it again.

Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy

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Post by neilv »

scardipdap wrote: post #12

Points for originality, but it does seem a little complicated. I did something like this about six months ago, but in HTML, CSS, and zsh. As a next step, try testing your output with a free ATS parser.

Seconded, about trying to make sure it's ingestable by various ATS software.

I had a resume in TeX, distributed as PDF, which I verified could be parsed as text by open source PDF readers, but later learned that ATS software had still been silently throwing away my resume.

You can also try uploading your to the various job sites (e.g., LinkedIn, Indeed, Wellfound), if you don't already have a profile there, and see what they do with it.

You can also test it when applying to employers that use one of the popular SaaSes (the kind that asks you for your LinkedIn, then makes you upload your resume PDF/.doc, then makes you use Web forms to fix what they parsed).

(I currently do my resume in LibreOffice, and distribute as PDF, on the assumption that will be closer to the MS Word output that ATS sees the most of.)

Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy

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Post by adzm »

michaelengen wrote: post #13
cryptozeus wrote: post #2

But why ?

Author here—Two reasons, mainly. HTML+CSS is a great layout engine, and Eleventy is a good tool for making development more pleasant. While I have a lot of experience using other tools, e.g., LaTeX, I think they're not as well suited to laying out simple documents.

Thanks for sharing all this btw, I've been wanting to find a good static site generator that fits my needs and this actually led me to it!

Re: Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy

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Post by adzm »

scardipdap wrote: post #12

Points for originality, but it does seem a little complicated. I did something like this about six months ago, but in HTML, CSS, and zsh. As a next step, try testing your output with a free ATS parser.

Do you have any links to free ATS parsers? This is an interesting angle I hadn't considered.
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