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Ask HN: How to create VCS-friendly resumes?
I have to get my resume ready in few days. I was lurking around for some VCS friendly tools and found HackMyResume and JsonResume. I like the JSON way of making a resume but the themes available discarded some fields that I want to be visible. I am no good in CSS so I don't want to edit the themes.
So what other options are available for me ?
- Bootvis 11y agoI created a resume in LaTeX using a template I found somewhere. If you know a bit of LaTeX, it's quite easy to make a good looking resume and of course, LaTeX is just plaintext you can put in a VCS.
- maxaf 11y agoI've been keeping my resume in Markdown form in a private Gist for as long as I can remember. This approach has stood the test of time despite Markdown offering zero intrinsic support for either document structure in general, or the task of writing a resume in particular. In that, it's a good light-weight format that doesn't really get in the way. The plain-text nature makes it a good choice for VCS. There are lots of ways to turn Markdown into a user-friendly format like HTML or PDF. In short, it does everything I need and nothing I don't. My rule of thumb is to keep it simple and convenient. Compared to this, most other approaches I've seen - especially ones that try to shoehorn everything into some kind of data model - smell more like overengineering than anything else.