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The biggest issue I've found with latex, is its kind of a pain to write in, and has a higher learning curve. In reality, it is the better choice if you want the

by icco 16y ago

The biggest issue I've found with latex, is its kind of a pain to write in, and has a higher learning curve. In reality, it is the better choice if you want the final product to be printed, or need more stylistic control.

mdwrigh2 16y ago
There is a high learning curve associated with it, but this is your resume. When the person is looking at it, they may have no other information on you as of yet, meaning this right here, is your first impression. If I can spend twice the effort on this, and get an "improvement" of 10 or 20% (I'll leave the choice of units of measurement up to the reader...), in my mind that's worth it. It also doesn't have to be all that difficult. My resume is a style supplied by someone else (it's a pretty standard cv format) with some minor tweaks. Look at the source I linked, and I think you'll agree that it doesn't look all that complicated and probably could be modified with your information, and tweaked here and there to get a fairly unique resume.
masklinn 16y ago
> The biggest issue I've found with latex, is its kind of a pain to write in For a big document certainly, but for a CV or résumé you only need a few very basic things, especially if you're using one of the numerous CV classes available out there (in which case you just follow the original template).
- merijnv 16y ago
  >> The biggest issue I've found with latex, is its kind of a pain to write in >For a big document certainly How do you figure? I switched to using LaTeX for all my documents because Word/OpenOffice were such incredible pains for big documents. The only thing that really causes me a bit of complication are tables and embedding pictures. But then again using either of those in the * Office is an order of magnitude more painful or its downright impossible to accomplish what I want...
  - masklinn 16y ago
    Yes in the long run latex is superior anyway, but for big documents you have a lot of stuff to learn, so the learning curve is steep. For a CV, you only have to learn (/copy and paste) a few directives and remember to save the file as a .tex.
jedberg 16y ago
Agreed, but it is worth it for how nice it looks. As someone who looks at a lot of resumes, I appreciate the ones that are made with LaTex. It shows that little bit of extra effort. Also, I make the LaTex file I use for my own resume available so that others can copy it. http://edberg.org/jeremy/Jeremy_Edberg_Resume.tex http://edberg.org/jeremy/Jeremy_Edberg_Resume.tex

by icco 16y ago

mdwrigh2 16y ago

There is a high learning curve associated with it, but this is your resume. When the person is looking at it, they may have no other information on you as of yet, meaning this right here, is your first impression. If I can spend twice the effort on this, and get an "improvement" of 10 or 20% (I'll leave the choice of units of measurement up to the reader...), in my mind that's worth it. It also doesn't have to be all that difficult. My resume is a style supplied by someone else (it's a pretty standard cv format) with some minor tweaks. Look at the source I linked, and I think you'll agree that it doesn't look all that complicated and probably could be modified with your information, and tweaked here and there to get a fairly unique resume.

masklinn 16y ago

> The biggest issue I've found with latex, is its kind of a pain to write in For a big document certainly, but for a CV or résumé you only need a few very basic things, especially if you're using one of the numerous CV classes available out there (in which case you just follow the original template).

merijnv 16y ago
>> The biggest issue I've found with latex, is its kind of a pain to write in >For a big document certainly How do you figure? I switched to using LaTeX for all my documents because Word/OpenOffice were such incredible pains for big documents. The only thing that really causes me a bit of complication are tables and embedding pictures. But then again using either of those in the * Office is an order of magnitude more painful or its downright impossible to accomplish what I want...
- masklinn 16y ago
  Yes in the long run latex is superior anyway, but for big documents you have a lot of stuff to learn, so the learning curve is steep. For a CV, you only have to learn (/copy and paste) a few directives and remember to save the file as a .tex.

jedberg 16y ago

Agreed, but it is worth it for how nice it looks. As someone who looks at a lot of resumes, I appreciate the ones that are made with LaTex. It shows that little bit of extra effort. Also, I make the LaTex file I use for my own resume available so that others can copy it. http://edberg.org/jeremy/Jeremy_Edberg_Resume.tex http://edberg.org/jeremy/Jeremy_Edberg_Resume.tex