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Opinions are like... Well, here's mine, on qualities of a good resume: - consistent style - no complete sentences (too verbose especially w/ consistency)
by aaronchall 9y ago
Opinions are like...
Well, here's mine, on qualities of a good resume:
- consistent style
- no complete sentences (too verbose especially w/ consistency)
- everything relevant listed
- good organization, most relevant things first
- LaTeX or markdown for consistent formatting in your output
- no typos
- nice resume paper (a nice touch)
Anything marginally but decidedly helpful that goes past the first page is likely to be ignored, but maybe keep it anyways, especially if you've been in the workforce for more than 10 years. Less than 10 years, probably keep it to one page.
- John_Cena 9y agoI thought about using markdown for my resume but I was afraid that nobody would know what it was. At my current job I have found one person that knows what markdown is. Could you go into more detail for me please?
- aaronchall 9y agoI use LaTeX, a document markup language, for my and my wife's resume. (The resumes come out very nice.) Markdown can be used to output to LaTeX, but I haven't built a build-chain that takes markdown and puts it into my prefered resume style yet. I'd like to build one, though, but I'm still not sure what type of markdown to use. If you're a developer applying directly to a hiring manager who is also a developer, and you're going to bypass traditional HR, you might try a resume preformatted as markdown, which seems to be what you thought I meant, but I think that would be a bit nichey - meaning it probably won't work in most situations.