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My resume is in LaTeX and I love it and its easy to edit and it looks beautiful... but some jobs (and I'm not kidding here) will only accept resumes in an MS Wo
by TranquilMarmot 11y ago
My resume is in LaTeX and I love it and its easy to edit and it looks beautiful... but some jobs (and I'm not kidding here) will only accept resumes in an MS Word .doc format. I can't tell you how much butchering I had to to do get my resume in Word to look close to how nice it looks as a PDF.
- danellis 11y agoThat kind of inflexibility seems like a good signal that you might not want to work there anyway.
- TranquilMarmot 11y agoI agree- unfortunately, sometimes I am desperate and end up taking the job for lack of other options :(
- benplumley 11y agoI'd be tempted to make an image of the PDF and insert it into a Word document so it fills the page, but that would probably have broken their workflow (Word's inline comments, perhaps) and dropped me straight into the reject pile.
- TranquilMarmot 11y agoFrom what I can tell, their general "workflow" is to shove the Word document into a parser that grabs your name, address, experience, education, etc. and puts it into a searchable format so that can filter on certain keywords. The reason they need to Word doc is because it's the only format their parser accepts...
- dredmorbius 11y agolatex2html -> html2rtf I've used that for years. No problems, though the odd jobsite's commented on formatting, giving me an opportunity to explain the generator ;-)
- TranquilMarmot 11y agoHmm I like that idea! I'll have to try it out next time a company asks for a word doc.
- dredmorbius 11y agoPandoc can probably produce docx directly, if that's your goal. Pandoc rocks.
- bryanrasmussen 11y agoI don't think I've seen a job that required Word since about 2009, and back then I wasn't using LaTex so I didn't have the problem but don't any of the LaTex to word tools or services I see around work?