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Resumes live in that weird world between documents and data, trying to manage, edit, and share them neatly is invariably going to fall off onto one side of the

Resumes live in that weird world between documents and data, trying to manage, edit, and share them neatly is invariably going to fall off onto one side of the fence. I eventually gave up and now just use Microsoft Word stored on Dropbox. Anything that gets primarily touched and read by humans just needs to use a presentation-oriented tool. Building a pandoc workflow for a resume is so far into overkill territory that you may as well direct the soldiers to pour salt into the battered soil of your creative sanity.

stilley2 8y ago
My strategy had been latex for resumes, where I can play all the dirty formatting tricks I want in the name of presentation, and pandoc/markdown for my CV, where content is more important and the document needs to be updated frequently.
- throwaway080383 8y ago
  My favorite dirty LaTex formatting trick is \phantom
  - TeMPOraL 8y ago
    Is this LaTeX equivalent of   padding?
Kagerjay 8y ago
Adding onto this, I use the same naming convention across documents (similar to ISO standards). Dump this all in one folder, archive everything after a job is found. Most companies who get your resume need the following on your file name - .firstname,lastname,dateapplied, positionname. I personally organize it like so. FirstnameLastname_Companyshortname_ Fullpositiontitle_08-18 You can automate the FirstnameLastname part and the ending date applied with a script (I have a button that does this for me, filerenaming in directoryOpus). This makes it easy to know whats been sent and whats a draft etc. This script doesnt change at all either since its all formatted same way. You can automatically generate a PDF with this script as well because you generally need both formats (so someone doesnt tamper with your msword.docx file). If you had to make a cover letter and if the company bothers to read it, and it isnt done through a hiring portal but as an attachment, you can use the same docname and append a suffix like "--coverletter". So you can A-Z sort and find which cover letter came from which job Longer filenames generally standout more too and its easier to find when HR has to deal with many of these etc On another singular document, you can have a copy paste doc of all the job descriptions you applied for. Sort this by alphabetical company name, then position title, since this is how you would search it. Doesnt have to be a msword file Other things you can do pull some automated tools off github for scraping keywords off indeed, hackernews whos hiring,etc for automating application process. Then theres linkedin as well etc It just depends also how much stuff your applying to. If theres obly a limited selection of jobs that you want then the above mostly manual with some scripts workflow is fine. For more intensive mass apply process you would be better off oneclick applying through indeed, etc and using a generic template This applies to both tech and nontech jobs, low skill and high skill jobs equally
quirkot 8y ago
> Resumes live in that weird world between documents and data The words you're looking for might be "marketing collateral". A resume is a marketing document
nicoburns 8y ago
I went all the way down the presentation tool route and created mine in Fireworks. It's pain to update, but it sure looks great, and it managed to get me a (web dev) job back when I had no previous work expereience :)

stilley2 8y ago

My strategy had been latex for resumes, where I can play all the dirty formatting tricks I want in the name of presentation, and pandoc/markdown for my CV, where content is more important and the document needs to be updated frequently.

throwaway080383 8y ago
My favorite dirty LaTex formatting trick is \phantom
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Is this LaTeX equivalent of   padding?

Kagerjay 8y ago

Adding onto this, I use the same naming convention across documents (similar to ISO standards). Dump this all in one folder, archive everything after a job is found. Most companies who get your resume need the following on your file name - .firstname,lastname,dateapplied, positionname. I personally organize it like so. FirstnameLastname_Companyshortname_ Fullpositiontitle_08-18 You can automate the FirstnameLastname part and the ending date applied with a script (I have a button that does this for me, filerenaming in directoryOpus). This makes it easy to know whats been sent and whats a draft etc. This script doesnt change at all either since its all formatted same way. You can automatically generate a PDF with this script as well because you generally need both formats (so someone doesnt tamper with your msword.docx file). If you had to make a cover letter and if the company bothers to read it, and it isnt done through a hiring portal but as an attachment, you can use the same docname and append a suffix like "--coverletter". So you can A-Z sort and find which cover letter came from which job Longer filenames generally standout more too and its easier to find when HR has to deal with many of these etc On another singular document, you can have a copy paste doc of all the job descriptions you applied for. Sort this by alphabetical company name, then position title, since this is how you would search it. Doesnt have to be a msword file Other things you can do pull some automated tools off github for scraping keywords off indeed, hackernews whos hiring,etc for automating application process. Then theres linkedin as well etc It just depends also how much stuff your applying to. If theres obly a limited selection of jobs that you want then the above mostly manual with some scripts workflow is fine. For more intensive mass apply process you would be better off oneclick applying through indeed, etc and using a generic template This applies to both tech and nontech jobs, low skill and high skill jobs equally

quirkot 8y ago

> Resumes live in that weird world between documents and data The words you're looking for might be "marketing collateral". A resume is a marketing document

nicoburns 8y ago

I went all the way down the presentation tool route and created mine in Fireworks. It's pain to update, but it sure looks great, and it managed to get me a (web dev) job back when I had no previous work expereience :)