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I made a LaTeX template for Pandoc, so one can write a resume in Markdown (and some YAML) and generate a PDF (or LaTeX). It's on GitHub: https://github.com/john
by jjjbokma 7y ago
I made a LaTeX template for Pandoc, so one can write a resume in Markdown (and some YAML) and generate a PDF (or LaTeX). It's on GitHub: https://github.com/john-bokma/resume-pandoc https://github.com/john-bokma/resume-pandoc
It needs a LaTeX install, and Pandoc, of course as explained in http://johnbokma.com/blog/2017/05/17/installing-latest-pandoc-on-ubuntu.html http://johnbokma.com/blog/2017/05/17/installing-latest-pando... The instructions are for Ubuntu 17.04 but work for 19.04 as well (tested this weekend).
Example resume: http://castleamber.com/documents/perl-programmer-john-bokma-resume.pdf http://castleamber.com/documents/perl-programmer-john-bokma-... (PDF).
- cocoa19 7y agoThe convention is to write a 1 page resume. Your example is too verbose.
- jjjbokma 7y agoI am aware of this and have plans to trim it down to 1 page. Thank you for the feedback.
- vikin9 7y agoPlease keep both versions up to date! Once you get the attention of recruiter (using your one-page Resume) then they usually ask for more information - longer CV, skills matrix, etc. I invested some time to shorten my resume to exactly one page and now I get a bit irritated when people ask me for a longer version.
- jjjbokma 7y agoThanks for your feedback. I will keep both and call the short one my resume and the long one my CV.
- chrisseaton 7y agoIt varies by country and industry. Six pages is fine in my experience.
- cosmodisk 7y agoWhich country is it? With 6 pages one needs to be a phd with 20 years of experience and plenty to show, otherwise 1-2 pages max.
- chrisseaton 7y agoWell yeah that’s the kind of person working in my industry.
- hprotagonist 7y agoMy current principal investigator has a 40-odd page CV. They’ve been doing research since the mid-70s: hundreds of invited talks, papers, posters, book chapters, awards, etc. take up a lot of space.
- adenadel 7y agoThis highlights the difference between a resume and a CV.
- hprotagonist 7y agoyes. They don’t have a resume at all in fact.
- chrisseaton 7y agoRight, but in the UK, for example, we don't do resumes, only CVs.
- mruts 7y agoAre you saying that everyone in the UK is an academic?
- bgeeek 7y agoVaries - UK used to be 2.5 pages max, but can imagine academic CVs being longer.
- hprotagonist 7y agoin my (american academic) usage, “resume” is exactly one page and is a custom-made document to apply for a specific industry job. “CV” is “literally everything i’ve ever done since freshman year of undergrad”, and may run to 40 or more pages for senior researchers. A "biosketch" is a CV that is tabular and formatted according to semi-arcane rules laid out by funding agencies, normally the NIH. I think of a resume as a targeted redaction of my CV.
- jjjbokma 7y agoThat distinction is good to know, thanks!
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- resurge 7y agoI used md + pandoc for my resume before as well, but I wanted some more possibilities in changing the layout of the pdf. I remember needing to do some stuff in LaTeX to do that but I don't know that very well. So I took a different approach with node. I have a yaml file with my cv data [1] in it and I render this in an ejs template to html+css. That html then gets transformed to a pdf. The result can be seen here [2] And the source code here [3] [1]: https://gitlab.com/jeroenpelgrims/resume/blob/master/resume.yml https://gitlab.com/jeroenpelgrims/resume/blob/master/resume.... [2]: http://jeroenpelgrims.gitlab.io/resume/resume.pdf http://jeroenpelgrims.gitlab.io/resume/resume.pdf [3]: https://gitlab.com/jeroenpelgrims/resume https://gitlab.com/jeroenpelgrims/resume