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I 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 mar

• aaronchall 9y ago
  I 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.