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You know, I once had a resume powered by JSON. It was rendered to a PDF (and HTML) but the syntax was backed by JSON. This was years back and I shudder to even

You know, I once had a resume powered by JSON. It was rendered to a PDF (and HTML) but the syntax was backed by JSON. This was years back and I shudder to even recall the idea. I didn't create the project mind you, it was some NPM package back when I was a fresh 'un who didn't have thoughts on using a billion subdependencies Anyway, I was nearly broke and when I went to apply for the benefit, I was asked for my resume as a word doc Clearly, you can imagine how this conversation went down but I had brought a PDF on a USB which I offered to print out instead. The clerk refused to let me plug in my USB for fear I was going to "hack" her and the HTML page, saving as a PDF with Chrome, took some convincing to ask her to navigate to so it could be printed I guess the lesson here is that if you expect to run out of funds, make sure you have your most essential documents stored via Microsoft Word?

vlovich123 6y ago
I’ve generally saved my HTML resume to PDF without any major issues as a professional SWE for the past ~15 years or so, although I’ve been dealing primarily with SV tech companies and not government agencies in the UK. Microsoft Word is fine too but I would still use something like PDF for export and sharing (still not sure how Microsoft Word solves the usb problem for you). Generally though I like something text-like that I can revision control more easily/edit in vim. Maybe I’ll switch to something like pan doc going forward (then you can generate word if they really want it).
- spondyl 6y ago
  Pandoc can even generate Word docs?! Well dang
throwaway2245 6y ago
This seems more about putting barriers up to make it difficult for people to collect benefits. If you had this experience again, there would likely be some other barrier.
- spondyl 6y ago
  The real head scratcher is that after all that, they said "Ah, you have rent of $160/week? We're glad to offer you $110. Perhaps I misunderstood but paying rent is very much a binary situation so I wondered what was even the point of such a system
rewtraw 6y ago
Probably https://jsonresume.org https://jsonresume.org I have my resume defined using this schema, which is handy because it's supported enough that every few years when I actually need to update it, I can find a website (such as https://resumake.io https://resumake.io) where I can just copy in the JSON and get a nicely formatted PDF out of it.
- spondyl 6y ago
  That's the one
gpvos 6y ago
LibreOffice and MS Word both can open PDFs, although maybe this happened before they could.
trevordixon 6y ago
My resume is an XML document and a stylesheet I feed to Prince (https://www.princexml.com/ https://www.princexml.com/), which is an amazing piece of software. I also used it once to generate a book I had printed by some on-demand printing company. I got great output out of it.

vlovich123 6y ago

I’ve generally saved my HTML resume to PDF without any major issues as a professional SWE for the past ~15 years or so, although I’ve been dealing primarily with SV tech companies and not government agencies in the UK. Microsoft Word is fine too but I would still use something like PDF for export and sharing (still not sure how Microsoft Word solves the usb problem for you). Generally though I like something text-like that I can revision control more easily/edit in vim. Maybe I’ll switch to something like pan doc going forward (then you can generate word if they really want it).

spondyl 6y ago
Pandoc can even generate Word docs?! Well dang

throwaway2245 6y ago

This seems more about putting barriers up to make it difficult for people to collect benefits. If you had this experience again, there would likely be some other barrier.

spondyl 6y ago
The real head scratcher is that after all that, they said "Ah, you have rent of $160/week? We're glad to offer you $110. Perhaps I misunderstood but paying rent is very much a binary situation so I wondered what was even the point of such a system

rewtraw 6y ago

Probably https://jsonresume.org https://jsonresume.org I have my resume defined using this schema, which is handy because it's supported enough that every few years when I actually need to update it, I can find a website (such as https://resumake.io https://resumake.io) where I can just copy in the JSON and get a nicely formatted PDF out of it.

spondyl 6y ago
That's the one

gpvos 6y ago

LibreOffice and MS Word both can open PDFs, although maybe this happened before they could.

trevordixon 6y ago

My resume is an XML document and a stylesheet I feed to Prince (https://www.princexml.com/ https://www.princexml.com/), which is an amazing piece of software. I also used it once to generate a book I had printed by some on-demand printing company. I got great output out of it.