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Show HN: CV Boilerplate – Easing the Process of Building a CV Using LaTeX
- cjbprime 11y agoLooks nice! I use this one: http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex
- vonmoltke 11y agoAccording to the README, that is what the posted templating system is based on.
- mrzool 11y agoThanks! The boilerplate contains a revised version of the same template. I've ported it to Pandoc and added the possibility of including a series of urls near the contact informations.
- tpiha 11y agoI use moderncv: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/moderncv?lang=en https://www.ctan.org/pkg/moderncv?lang=en
- omegote 11y agoMe too!
- aorth 11y agoMe too! It's even on GitHub and has forks. :) https://github.com/alanorth/cv https://github.com/alanorth/cv
- tpiha 11y agoI'm working on a small Open Source web based generator for it, writing it in Go. :) It'll be done in a few days, I'll show it on HN. https://github.com/tpiha/barecv https://github.com/tpiha/barecv
- omegote 11y agoForking someone else's CV... that's interesting :D I have it in my Dropbox just in case I need it, but I don't feel like having it publicly available...
- benwaffle 11y agoI should really learn latex
- dublinben 11y agoI wouldn't consider myself an expert in any way, but it takes less than an hour to get up to speed with the Latex necessary to compose a nice CV/resume. Most people spend far more time wrangling with a word processor to get a much uglier result.
- middleclick 11y agoI learned basic Latex, just the minimum necessary to get started. And now I just Google what I want and use the code verbatim, never bothering to understand the internals. I thought I was the only one who did this until I saw that most other people in my university did the same.
- sgeisenh 11y agoHonestly, that's what makes LaTeX great. Formatting is decoupled from content. If you want to make a formatting change, you can Google it and chances are that somebody else has done the same thing.
- ma2rten 11y agoIn Latex usually get nice results with the result settings, but if you don't you can spend hours getting it to look the way you want.
- tomjen3 11y agoIt is pretty awesome for what it does, but honestly it isn't worth learning it for a CV when you can surely find some markdown -> latex -> pdf translator. LaTeX is worth it when you have a group writing project or you need to typeset more than a couple equations, at which point there really isn't any substitute.
- pjc50 11y agoI did mine in LaTeX back in <checks files> 2001, using basically just \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{report} \usepackage{url,a4wide,pslatex,times} \section*{Experience} \subsection* ...
- V-2 11y agoThis sample CV doesn't look all that nice to me - bullet list, italic, small caps, three or four different font sizes on one page... effects overload. Maybe it's just because it's supposed to be a showcase, anyway it looks cluttered
- mrzool 11y agoThank you for the precious feedback. I'll probably revise it.
- zackelan 11y agoI consider LaTeX resumes to be a secret handshake of sorts, something that makes me significantly more likely to be inclined-to-hire a candidate. If you're preparing formatted text, LaTeX is the best tool for the job. It also has a steep learning curve. Preparing a resume with it says "I have the technical judgement to use the best tool for this job, even if I had to learn an arcane new programming language[0] to do it." 0: The best description I've ever read of TeX in general is that it's a Turing-complete programming language with a compiler that outputs printer assembly code (Postscript) rather than computer assembly.
- sdegutis 11y agoI can't agree. Having used LaTeX for about a year now, it's got all the fragmentation and design-by-committee flaws of Linux, but much worse. There are so many packages, and many are completely incompatible with each other. And while TeX itself is pretty simple, LaTeX is much bigger, and using any libraries on top of it pretty much requires hours of searching tex.so for obscure fixes and workarounds, which are often counter-intuitive. I'd rather hire someone who would have the sense to pay $20 for a month's worth of InDesign, learn how to use it (which also has a steep learning curve), and make what they need. This shows me they have prudence and can prioritize and manage their time properly, and aren't swayed by public opinion on what the best tool for the job is, but make unbiased comparisons for themselves.
- sotojuan 11y agoPersonally I've had more success after switching to a résumé based on this article: http://practicaltypography.com/resumes.html http://practicaltypography.com/resumes.html
- sotojuan 11y ago> Preparing a resume with it says "I have the technical judgement to use the best tool for this job, even if I had to learn an arcane new programming language[0] to do it." In my experience with my classmates, it means "I know how to download a template and edit it".
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- scrumper 11y agoHmm, seems to require Pandoc? I'd like a nice LaTeX CV template as I can't find the one I used 15 years ago so therefore can't make changes, but don't fancy working with (the entirely appropriately named in this case) YAML.
- swillis16 11y agoThere's a site that I've been using for a while called https://www.sharelatex.com/ https://www.sharelatex.com/ which has the ModernCV template which I use for my resume.
- programminggeek 11y agoI've never seen anything easy about using LaTeX.
- mello151 11y agoI've used https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/cv#.Vi6Bz2SrReU https://www.overleaf.com/gallery/tagged/cv#.Vi6Bz2SrReU in the past for my wife. I haven't really looked at any other apps but I like how I can just export PDF directly and not having to deal with exporting/creating the PDF on my own. I'd like to learn LaTeX at some point but at this point, CVs are the only thing I use it for...
- michaelhoffman 11y agoAs an academic, I have to reformat my CV for almost every grant I apply to. I created a Jinja2/Pandoc pipeline to ease this process: https://bitbucket.org/hoffman/cv/ https://bitbucket.org/hoffman/cv/
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