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When I first started my career I used something I spent days building in LaTeX. After a few years I realised that none of that really mattered, and now just hav
by fyfy18 9y ago
When I first started my career I used something I spent days building in LaTeX. After a few years I realised that none of that really mattered, and now just have a Word document (mainly so I don’t have to fumble around installing LaTeX every few years when I want to update it).
Yes, you should have something that stands out, but unless you are applying for a job as a designer, it should be your skills and experience that stand out, not how (subjectively) pretty you can make your CV. Additionally larger companies and recruitment agencies will parse your CV and strip all your formatting, before a human even sees it. Sending it over as a PDF (with the text embedded) probably helps with that.
- abhishekjha 9y agoI have been using LaTeX for past 2 years and updating the resume starts taking a toll as I am not well versed with. Recently had my hard drive fail and ended up reinstalling and updating my very first draft which took a lot of time. Even after all this the point that gets me is the recruiter asking you to fill all the details one by one on their online job application portal while the resume has the very same details. I wonder why.
- astkaasa 9y agothere are some online latex editor services, maybe u can try https://www.sharelatex.com https://www.sharelatex.com
- cuchoi 9y agoI have my resume stored in sharelatex.com. The formatting issues of Word were driving me crazy. The only thing that concerns me about Latex is that is not as machine-readable.