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I went down this route in the past using things like https://jsonresume.org/ https://jsonresume.org/ and even latex to create lovely PDF outputs. The thing is,
by francis-io 7y ago
I went down this route in the past using things like https://jsonresume.org/ https://jsonresume.org/ and even latex to create lovely PDF outputs. The thing is, most people want the least friction in viewing your Resume/CV and the best results I get now is from a public link to a Google Doc. This lets anyone view in the browser, copy and paste is not an issue and the can export it as doc/pdf directly if they wish.
- tombert 7y agoThis is true, though I've found personally that there is an unintended niceness to having your resume down in LaTeX/PDF: recruiters can't break the formatting by adding their ugly logo on the top. This probably is an outlier, but about 6 years ago, I had a resume that I wrote in the typical .docx format, a recruiter added their logo on the top, all the bullets became misaligned, and during the interview, the interviewer actually asked why I would submit such an unprofessional thing for a place that I expected to work (though he said it more politely than that). Lord knows how many people saw it and turned up even giving me an interview because of it. After that incident, I redid it in LaTeX, and whenever I talk to recruiters who ask for my resume in a Word/Google Docs format, I tell them "I don't own a copy of MS Word, but here's a link to the TeX source!". I've never had anyone ever push back after that, and since most non-engineers don't know how to use TeX, they don't break the formatting.