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Do any interviewers notice resumes that are written in LaTeX compared to ones that aren't?
by B1narySunset 9y ago
Do any interviewers notice resumes that are written in LaTeX compared to ones that aren't?
- pmiller2 9y agoI would, probably, depending on the level of customization.
- jedberg 9y agoI definitely do. I automatically give plus points in my head even though I know I shouldn't.
- tempay 9y agoShould you not? I'm sure having a LaTeX CV correlates well with other skills which you might deem desirable and, if so, it seems like a perfectly reasonable indicator to use. It shouldn't be used exclusively, but nothing should be.
- LVB 9y agoI must say, I was happy to come across this after putting in the not insignificant effort of converting my resume into a nice looking LaTeX document: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/resume_comic.png http://stevehanov.ca/blog/resume_comic.png
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- Xophmeister 9y agoYep; it’s obviously not a deal breaker/winner, but we definitely notice. I once joked that we ought to mark up candidates with LaTeX CVs, but knock them slightly down if they stuck with Computer Modern :)
- sjy 9y agoHow can you tell that they used LaTeX if the CV is in PDF format, other than by guessing from the use of Computer Modern?
- blt 9y agoQuality of typesetting. Seriously.
- blt 9y agoSee e.g. the first example at http://www.zinktypografie.nl/latex.php?lang=en http://www.zinktypografie.nl/latex.php?lang=en
- saadat 9y agoLook at the PDF's "PDF Producer", "Creator", or "Application" metadata fields in a PDF reader application.
- zaarn 9y agoAfter a while you can just spot it, LaTeX has a much higher quality typesetting and layout engine than Word or other WYSIWYG on-the-fly editors. The easy way is usually to spot some of the no-no's of layouting; single words at the last line of a paragraph, sentences spanning over page breaks, spacing in block paragraphs, etc. It's easiest with letters or invoices with some text, where the spacing and word placing is most obvious but you can usually tell in CVs with less text too. Of course, sometimes Word gets lucky and does a proper layout, but I've found that it's rare that I get to see properly layouted word documents.
- pvdebbe 9y agoCrap. I like Computer Modern. :(
- lou1306 9y agoIt is not bad, and its history (as well as Metafont's) is remarkable. However, the Adobe Utopia font, available by using the fourier package, is so much better IMHO.
- Bromskloss 9y agoOf course. I mean, of course… https://xkcd.com/1301/ https://xkcd.com/1301/
- wyldfire 9y agoYes, it's definitely a shibboleth. IMO it's a full duplex signal. When I notice that an interviewer noticed, it can make me more interested in an offer from that place if I think I'll be working with that/those interviewer/s.