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A resume template in TeX

197 points by Zephyr314 15y ago

This is my resume in LaTeX. Feel free to fork and edit.

mhd 15y ago
For interesting templates and notes for CVs in LaTeX I can really recommend this site: http://www.cv-templates.info/ http://www.cv-templates.info/
- Zephyr314 15y ago
  That looks like a great resource. Thanks for the tip! This is also great if you are just getting into LaTeX: http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
- kv0 15y ago
  That's a great site. I used their template and edited it a bit (different fonts,site-numbering etc.): https://www.dropbox.com/s/etwpj6p6kvj5lgd/robert_bahmann.pdf https://www.dropbox.com/s/etwpj6p6kvj5lgd/robert_bahmann.pdf
vvpan 15y ago
I think boxes are extra when all you need is elegant typography.
- hsmyers 15y ago
  In looking at my books pre 1930, boxes were primarily reserved for photographs and illustrations in general. Seldom for text.
  - mhd 15y ago
    Boxes became quite popular when DTP programs came on the market, just because all of a sudden it was easily doable, the same with different colored backgrounds (even if it was just shades of gray). Generally not a good idea for a simple, b/w, serious layout. If I remember correctly, even horizontal rules weren't that common back in the days. German/Swiss typography called them "English lines", so I assume they were more common in the UK.
    - fhars 15y ago
      There is this G.B. Shaw quote at the end of chapter 21 of the TeXbook: There is not in existence a page with a rule on it that cannot be instantly and obviously improved by taking the rule out.
- alecbenzer 15y ago
  The boxes are also in a different font. I think the look would improve significantly if he got rid of them and made the font consistent.
jbk 15y ago
I think there are way better resume templates in LaTeX around, like modernCV (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/modernc...), example here: http://www.jbkempf.com/documents/JBKempf-resume.pdf http://www.jbkempf.com/documents/JBKempf-resume.pdf; or CurrVita http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/currvita http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/currvit...
- kittxkat 15y ago
  that pdf example is really good, something eyecatching and not like 90% of those standart cv's.
- ma2rten 15y ago
  Wow! That is the first CV template I have ever seen that I don't hate and I spend quite a while looking for one. Thanks alot.
- deleted 15y ago
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- dheerosaur 15y ago
  Two default styles are provided with moderncv. There are some good examples and instructions on this page - http://www.math.uic.edu/~hurder/math589/vita.html http://www.math.uic.edu/~hurder/math589/vita.html
- ppod 15y ago
  You have a spelling error there in the last section header - should be "leisure and hobbies"
  - jbk 15y ago
    It would seem I forgot to upload the new version, where I fixed that... Oops :D Thanks a lot :)
    - ppod 15y ago
hapless 15y ago
This is substantially similar to my resume from circa 2005, and the template I was using was already old then. I think basically all latex users have been passing around variants of the same GPL resume template for ten or fifteen years now. :)
apl 15y ago
There's significantly better stuff out there (e.g., http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex). This one's neither clear nor consistent, and a tad ugly to boot.
necubi 15y ago
I might as well take this opportunity to plug resume.rb (https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb) which allows you to define your resume using a simple Ruby DSL and then render it to various outputs (currently supported are plain-text and PDF via LaTeX). Here's [0] an example ruby file which generates this [1] PDF. [0] https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/blob/master/example/my_resume.rb https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/blob/master/example/my_r... [1] https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/raw/master/example/my_resume.pdf https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/raw/master/example/my_re....
- thyrsus 15y ago
  The support for plain text is important. When I applied for my current position, I sent a TeX generated PDF of my resume. When I arrived for my interview, what they had in hand was as if someone had OCRd it, done a "strings" on the result and then pulled it into Word - barely comprehensible and ugly as puke. Of course, I had brought lots of paper copies with me.
sciurus 15y ago
I've been happy using Miklos Csurus resume class from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~csuros/latex.html http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~csuros/latex.html You can see a sample TeX file at http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.tex http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.tex and the PDF output at http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.pdf http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.pdf
Aloisius 15y ago
We've switched over to LinkedIn's job application feature which just PDFs up your LinkedIn profile and sends it to us when they click on apply on our website. I don't believe there is even a place to attach a normal résumé anymore.
- ori_b 15y ago
  Interesting. I wonder how much of a drop in applicants that gives you. I wouldn't have bothered applying for a job with a company that required a linkedin account.
  - evilbit 15y ago
    Conversely, the fact that you don't have a LinkedIn account is a red flag to many employers potentially looking to hire you.
    - ori_b 15y ago
      Clearly, it's not enough of one to stop them from reaching out to me and asking if I'm looking for work.
  - Aloisius 15y ago
    Actually applicants went up quite a bit (well over 100%). My guess is that this is probably from the fact that it takes two clicks to apply.
    - SkyMarshal 15y ago
      Notice any difference in the quality of applicants? Subjective I know, but curious nonetheless.
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curtis 15y ago
My resume has been in HTML since the late 90s. Nobody seems to be asking for .doc anymore, and I've never seen anyone ask for another format unless they were asking for plain text.
javert 15y ago
I really like this one: http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~paciorek/computingTips/Latex_template_creating_CV_.html http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~paciorek/computingTips/Latex...
dhosek 15y ago
I used to keep my resume in TeX. I don't anymore. I just use a simple format in Word. PDF is fair, but most of the IT job market infrastructure is based around dealing with word docs & electronic copies so frankly the appearance isn't that important (other than basic legibility). I found it much easier to get work once I bit the bullet and move my resume into a word doc.
- phren0logy 15y ago
  I'm seriously considering dumping my TeX version for something else. It's just too fiddly to adjust simple formatting. I'd like to use HTML, but I need more print-specific control.
  - eru 15y ago
    How about postscript? You can even send it directly to most printers.
    - phren0logy 15y ago
      Are there postscript tools that are that much better than the tools that produce PDF?
      - eru 15y ago
        How about emacs? I was only half-way serious when suggesting postscript. Postscript is a nice format that you can write by hand. And it does meet your "need [for] more print-specific control." Since you are sensible you don't want to write postscript by hand, but I don't know of any tools that help you produce better postscript than pdf. (For technical reasons postscript is the superior format though. PDF is a prematurely optimized postscript. pdf-files usually have a smaller file size than ps files, but .ps.gz easily beats pdf, and you can change it with your favorite editor if you want.)
diamondhead 15y ago
I made some search to find TeX resumes in Github 4 months ago, to renew my resume. Here you can download my archive: http://uploading.com/files/3c95c534/resumes.tar.gz http://uploading.com/files/3c95c534/resumes.tar.gz It contains pdf and tex versions of the resumes of following people; elizabrock, mikepark, pavpanchekha, rlipman, rpetti, stuhood I hope that this archive may help you guys.
goodside 15y ago
Also, a clean HTML5 template: http://sampleresumetemplate.net/ http://sampleresumetemplate.net/ I just print to PDF from there, and attach the result.
- Zephyr314 15y ago
  That looks really clean and nice. I'll definitely use this as a web template for future resumes.
- daeken 15y ago
  I designed mine from scratch with HTML + CSS and use http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ to render to PDF from there. Really handy. https://github.com/daeken/daeken.github.com/blob/master/CV.html https://github.com/daeken/daeken.github.com/blob/master/CV.h... is clean and simple and gets turned into http://daeken.github.com/CV.pdf http://daeken.github.com/CV.pdf (which is woefully out of date at this point). Feel free to use it as a base.
  - stevejohnson 15y ago
    I've often thought of doing the same. Are there any special flags you pass to wkhtmltopdf or is it pretty straightforward?
    - daeken 15y ago
      I don't believe I pass any flags at all, just pass the HTML and PDF filenames to it.
  - charlesofarrell 15y ago
    I switched from LaTeX to reStructredText recently. While obviously not as powerful, it makes it much easier to edit. GitHub evens displays it semi-nicely for free. https://github.com/charleso/resume https://github.com/charleso/resume http://cv.charleso.org/ http://cv.charleso.org/
- j79 15y ago
sxtxixtxcxh 15y ago
i did something similar[1] as an excuse to try out nanoc[2]. [1] https://github.com/sxtxixtxcxh/resume https://github.com/sxtxixtxcxh/resume [2] http://nanoc.stoneship.org/ http://nanoc.stoneship.org/
chrissnell 15y ago
I used to spend hours working on my resume in LaTeX, under the belief that it would buy me geek cred from employers who could recognize the typesetting. Not one person ever noticed it and the hassle from recruiters that wanted a Word doc finally motivated me to switch to Word. Sad but that's the way it goes.
- burgerbrain 15y ago
  As a counterpoint, I've recently had two interviewers recognize (and comment) on me using TeX because they recognized Computer Modern. One commented that I should have typed '\latex' instead of just 'latex' (I agreed of course, but mentioned that I didn't want to be too flashy). I got offers from both. I don't use recruiters, preferring to rely on personal connections, but would they really balk that much at a PDF resume?
- jacques_chester 15y ago
  I think that discovering which recruiters will hassle you for Word files is a feature, not a bug. There is no good reason for them to require Word that doesn't, ultimately, come down to them either a) being too lazy to cut and paste into a database, or b) wanting to "improve" your CV before passing it on.
cavilling_elite 15y ago
Sneaky way to get your resume on HN. :)
- Zephyr314 15y ago
  I'm sure I don't know what you are talking about ;) This plus the links in the comments are a great starting up point for someone looking to do this for the first time, something I wish I had years ago when I started.
TreyHenninger 15y ago
Just use indeed for resumes. http://www.indeed.com/resumes http://www.indeed.com/resumes
jimktrains2 15y ago
I like mine a little better: https://github.com/jimktrains/Resume/raw/master/Jim_Keener_resume.pdf https://github.com/jimktrains/Resume/raw/master/Jim_Keener_r...
- baddox 15y ago
  Nice, although I still think yours screams "I was made with Latex" a little too loudly. What do you think of mine? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/712576/thomas_shaddox_resume.pdf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/712576/thomas_shaddox_resume.pdf (the content is still from college days when I had no real experience, so please don't judge the content)
  - jimktrains2 15y ago
    I wanted the "I was made with LaTex" feel:-p Yours looks nice, and has less of the LaTex feel to it:)
rezscore 15y ago
This is awesome! We run a resume grading website (http://rezscore.com http://rezscore.com ) and would love to implement this, could you help us? Email jen /AT/ rezscore \DOT\ com
th 15y ago
I made a LaTex resume a while back too: https://github.com/treyhunner/resume https://github.com/treyhunner/resume
- cies 15y ago
  where's the pdf?
  - th 15y ago
    I've added one now: https://github.com/treyhunner/resume/blob/master/resume.pdf https://github.com/treyhunner/resume/blob/master/resume.pdf I hadn't thought to add example output.
    - cies 15y ago
      quite nice.. pls have a look at mine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016040 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016040 (the announcement here on hn)
mittermayr 15y ago
once done with your resume/cv, do us a favor and try it with our resume analyzer - it'll tell you a lot of things about the quality/content of your resume (and other things you might have missed). it's free, and automated. http://www.twentypeople.com/public/u/resumeanalyzer http://www.twentypeople.com/public/u/resumeanalyzer
flarg 15y ago
Props to you for using LaTeX! I too trod the road to CV perfection, from the early unwashed days of MS Word (bah!), to HTML (blah!), LaTeX (shucks!), XML (arrgh!) and finally to ReST (hooray!). Sadly no one cared; recruiters wanted MS Word or RTF and employers valued beauty in phrasing over beauty of typesetting and so I hired a CV writer and stuck to Open Office / Google Docs. Hope it works out for you though!
daniel-cussen 15y ago
I currently use scribtex.com for all my LaTex needs because it already has all the libraries loaded properly. This was a gigantic pain in the ass for me. Having software set up properly is IMO a good case for a web app; with scribtex, all you need is a text editor to produce good pdfs. I highly recommend it. (Please keep it in business.)
chrismetcalf 15y ago
I might as well throw mine in the ring as well: https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume (Example: https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume/blob/master/Chris_Metcalf_Resume.pdf?raw=true https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume/blob/master/Chris_Met...). I like the modernCV format a lot, I'll likely try to crib some features from there.
alain94040 15y ago
Two quick facts, as a hiring manager (your mileage may vary, but this is how I think): 1) I can usually tell that you wrote your resume in TeX 2) I then classify you immediately in the "advanced geeks" category, with a "probably hard to work with because is picky" flag...
- zyfo 15y ago
  The (negative) "picky flag" says more about you or the company that you represent than the person applying. Being picky about your tools and what you produce should be a positive sign. It shows that you care. It doesn't say anything about how flexible the person is.
  - eru 15y ago
    Also if they send in their TeX-ed resume as a pdf (and not a sensible format like postscript), it shows that they can compromise.
    - sliverstorm 15y ago
      Considering postscript "sensible" is a red flag, if I ever saw one. Not to be negative, but while that might have been suitable 30 years ago...
      - eru 15y ago
        I meant `sensible' purely in the technical sense. Postscript is superior to pdf. pdf is basically a stripped down postscript in binary format as a premature size optimization. ps.gz is usually smaller than the equivalent pdf. I wouldn't send out postscript files to people I don't know, since you can't assume that people are able to read them. I assume your comment was purely about the social point of view? Or are there technical reasons for foregoing postscript documents you may want to print? (Especially reasons that didn't exist 30 years ago.) Thanks!
        sliverstorm 15y ago
baddox 15y ago
Perhaps it's just the font, but this and most other Latex resumes scream "I was made with Latex!" For some jobs, that might buy some geek cred, but I wanted to make mine less Latexy. What do you think? (Disclaimer: content is crappy and outdated) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/712576/thomas_shaddox_resume.pdf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/712576/thomas_shaddox_resume.pdf
- aw3c2 15y ago
  I really do not like the italic text. Immediately thought of cheap newspaper classifieds. Maybe just not make that italic? It is already lighter than the main headlines so it might be different enough. Monospace for "internet things" is geeky, looked weird. Lose the "(primary)" at the cell number unless you add another number. Bullet points maybe? "company." as single word in a line is sub-optimal. "development teams of 2-5." -> "development teams of 2-5 people." "Email" -> "E-Mail", I am not sure about this. You silly Amer. wi. al. your abbr. in addr. :)
BrandonM 15y ago
I can upload an HTML template that I created, if anyone is interested. You can post it on a webpage, or you can use your browser to print to PDF and send it that way.
leverage 15y ago
Thought this might be a good place to get some feedback on my own template: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13800588/Anonymous.August.2011.pdf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13800588/Anonymous.August.2011.pdf Will share the .tex if people want it.
dgrant 15y ago
As the original creator of this resume template, I must say it looks rather nice! :-) This is the .tex file I started with: http://matthewm.boedicker.org/doc/resume/resume.pdf http://matthewm.boedicker.org/doc/resume/resume.pdf then I took my Word resume (that had the shading, and some other things) and converted it into this: http://www.davidgrant.ca/latex_resume_template http://www.davidgrant.ca/latex_resume_template I made it because I loved my Word resume and I didn't like any of the LaTeX resumes out there on the Web. I also hated Word and loved using LaTeX. It made it into CTAN as a .sty file thanks to the efforts of George Louthan: http://georgerloutha.nthefourth.com/projects/tucv http://georgerloutha.nthefourth.com/projects/tucv http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tucv http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tucv Example using tucv package: http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/tucv/tucv_ex.pdf http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/tucv/tucv... Personally, I hate using .sty or .cls for a resume. I think using a .tex file as it allows full customization/tweaking of the entire file, easily. A resume isn't something that can be easily generalized to a .sty or .cls IMO.
- Zephyr314 15y ago
  Thank you for making the original template! I've used it for the past few years and it has been great!
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splicer 15y ago
It should be TeXnically feasible to do something of this caliber: http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/creative-resume-designs/ http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/creative-resume-de... And yet, all the TeX resume/CV examples I ever see are fairly boring.
cies 15y ago
i've looked at most, if not all, of the CVs & templates referred to on this page, but must say i like my TEX resume better. :) https://github.com/cies/resume https://github.com/cies/resume i like typesetting, so naturally did my best. it uses the pagella font that is often used for books (with 'low case numbers' -- i love those). except the h-lines and some bullets everything is made of text. uses hyper-refs where applicable, in dark blue so 'print safe'. everything is open source, how to compile this on ubuntu is in the header comment of the tex file. it is originally based on a file found on toofishes' blog: http://www.toofishes.net/blog/tags/latex http://www.toofishes.net/blog/tags/latex please let me know what you think!
alexkay 15y ago
Instead of writing my CV in TeX, I did it in markdown with pandoc [0] extensions. The good thing about this approach is that (a) the source is much more readable than TeX and (b) there are more conversion options, e.g. html is much saner than when using one of TeX2Html converters. The result is in my website [1][2], the source code is on GitHub [3]. [0] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html [1] http://www.kojevnikov.com/cv.pdf http://www.kojevnikov.com/cv.pdf [2] http://www.kojevnikov.com/cv.html http://www.kojevnikov.com/cv.html [3] https://github.com/alexkay/homepage https://github.com/alexkay/homepage
stewbrew 15y ago
Do you know a way to generate CVs in europass[1] format? [1] http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/vernav/Europass+Documents/Europass+CV.csp http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/vernav/Europ...
Aarvay 15y ago
This is mine (http://aarvay.in/resume.pdf http://aarvay.in/resume.pdf) and I love it. You can fork the same if you like it from (https://github.com/aarvay/resume/ https://github.com/aarvay/resume/)
jinushaun 15y ago
Seems too cumbersome. Plus, mixing the resume information with the formatting looks like a maintenance nightmare. That's why I store my resume as XML (model) and transform it into HTML (view) using XSLT (controller). The XML file includes my complete resume, and I use XSLT to generate different resumes that each display a subset of that information. It's as simple as myname.com/resume/dev or myname.com/resume/dba. The resulting HTML also copy and pastes well into Notepad or textarea form fields. I can also take this same XML data and convert it to PDF using a server-side PDF library. If I ever get around to updating the code behind it, I'll convert it to HTML5/canvas.

197 points by Zephyr314 15y ago

This is my resume in LaTeX. Feel free to fork and edit.

mhd 15y ago

For interesting templates and notes for CVs in LaTeX I can really recommend this site: http://www.cv-templates.info/ http://www.cv-templates.info/

Zephyr314 15y ago
That looks like a great resource. Thanks for the tip! This is also great if you are just getting into LaTeX: http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf http://tobi.oetiker.ch/lshort/lshort.pdf
kv0 15y ago
That's a great site. I used their template and edited it a bit (different fonts,site-numbering etc.): https://www.dropbox.com/s/etwpj6p6kvj5lgd/robert_bahmann.pdf https://www.dropbox.com/s/etwpj6p6kvj5lgd/robert_bahmann.pdf

vvpan 15y ago

I think boxes are extra when all you need is elegant typography.

hsmyers 15y ago
In looking at my books pre 1930, boxes were primarily reserved for photographs and illustrations in general. Seldom for text.
- mhd 15y ago
  Boxes became quite popular when DTP programs came on the market, just because all of a sudden it was easily doable, the same with different colored backgrounds (even if it was just shades of gray). Generally not a good idea for a simple, b/w, serious layout. If I remember correctly, even horizontal rules weren't that common back in the days. German/Swiss typography called them "English lines", so I assume they were more common in the UK.
  - fhars 15y ago
    There is this G.B. Shaw quote at the end of chapter 21 of the TeXbook: There is not in existence a page with a rule on it that cannot be instantly and obviously improved by taking the rule out.
alecbenzer 15y ago
The boxes are also in a different font. I think the look would improve significantly if he got rid of them and made the font consistent.

jbk 15y ago

I think there are way better resume templates in LaTeX around, like modernCV (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/modernc...), example here: http://www.jbkempf.com/documents/JBKempf-resume.pdf http://www.jbkempf.com/documents/JBKempf-resume.pdf; or CurrVita http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/currvita http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/currvit...

kittxkat 15y ago
that pdf example is really good, something eyecatching and not like 90% of those standart cv's.
ma2rten 15y ago
Wow! That is the first CV template I have ever seen that I don't hate and I spend quite a while looking for one. Thanks alot.
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dheerosaur 15y ago
Two default styles are provided with moderncv. There are some good examples and instructions on this page - http://www.math.uic.edu/~hurder/math589/vita.html http://www.math.uic.edu/~hurder/math589/vita.html
ppod 15y ago
You have a spelling error there in the last section header - should be "leisure and hobbies"
- jbk 15y ago
  It would seem I forgot to upload the new version, where I fixed that... Oops :D Thanks a lot :)
  - ppod 15y ago

hapless 15y ago

This is substantially similar to my resume from circa 2005, and the template I was using was already old then. I think basically all latex users have been passing around variants of the same GPL resume template for ten or fifteen years now. :)

apl 15y ago

There's significantly better stuff out there (e.g., http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex). This one's neither clear nor consistent, and a tad ugly to boot.

necubi 15y ago

I might as well take this opportunity to plug resume.rb (https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb) which allows you to define your resume using a simple Ruby DSL and then render it to various outputs (currently supported are plain-text and PDF via LaTeX). Here's [0] an example ruby file which generates this [1] PDF. [0] https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/blob/master/example/my_resume.rb https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/blob/master/example/my_r... [1] https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/raw/master/example/my_resume.pdf https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/raw/master/example/my_re....

thyrsus 15y ago
The support for plain text is important. When I applied for my current position, I sent a TeX generated PDF of my resume. When I arrived for my interview, what they had in hand was as if someone had OCRd it, done a "strings" on the result and then pulled it into Word - barely comprehensible and ugly as puke. Of course, I had brought lots of paper copies with me.

sciurus 15y ago

I've been happy using Miklos Csurus resume class from http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~csuros/latex.html http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~csuros/latex.html You can see a sample TeX file at http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.tex http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.tex and the PDF output at http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.pdf http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.pdf

Aloisius 15y ago

We've switched over to LinkedIn's job application feature which just PDFs up your LinkedIn profile and sends it to us when they click on apply on our website. I don't believe there is even a place to attach a normal résumé anymore.

ori_b 15y ago
Interesting. I wonder how much of a drop in applicants that gives you. I wouldn't have bothered applying for a job with a company that required a linkedin account.
- evilbit 15y ago
  Conversely, the fact that you don't have a LinkedIn account is a red flag to many employers potentially looking to hire you.
  - ori_b 15y ago
    Clearly, it's not enough of one to stop them from reaching out to me and asking if I'm looking for work.
- Aloisius 15y ago
  Actually applicants went up quite a bit (well over 100%). My guess is that this is probably from the fact that it takes two clicks to apply.
  - SkyMarshal 15y ago
    Notice any difference in the quality of applicants? Subjective I know, but curious nonetheless.
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curtis 15y ago

My resume has been in HTML since the late 90s. Nobody seems to be asking for .doc anymore, and I've never seen anyone ask for another format unless they were asking for plain text.

javert 15y ago

I really like this one: http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~paciorek/computingTips/Latex_template_creating_CV_.html http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~paciorek/computingTips/Latex...

dhosek 15y ago

I used to keep my resume in TeX. I don't anymore. I just use a simple format in Word. PDF is fair, but most of the IT job market infrastructure is based around dealing with word docs & electronic copies so frankly the appearance isn't that important (other than basic legibility). I found it much easier to get work once I bit the bullet and move my resume into a word doc.

phren0logy 15y ago
I'm seriously considering dumping my TeX version for something else. It's just too fiddly to adjust simple formatting. I'd like to use HTML, but I need more print-specific control.
- eru 15y ago
  How about postscript? You can even send it directly to most printers.
  - phren0logy 15y ago
    Are there postscript tools that are that much better than the tools that produce PDF?
    - eru 15y ago
      How about emacs? I was only half-way serious when suggesting postscript. Postscript is a nice format that you can write by hand. And it does meet your "need [for] more print-specific control." Since you are sensible you don't want to write postscript by hand, but I don't know of any tools that help you produce better postscript than pdf. (For technical reasons postscript is the superior format though. PDF is a prematurely optimized postscript. pdf-files usually have a smaller file size than ps files, but .ps.gz easily beats pdf, and you can change it with your favorite editor if you want.)

diamondhead 15y ago

I made some search to find TeX resumes in Github 4 months ago, to renew my resume. Here you can download my archive: http://uploading.com/files/3c95c534/resumes.tar.gz http://uploading.com/files/3c95c534/resumes.tar.gz It contains pdf and tex versions of the resumes of following people; elizabrock, mikepark, pavpanchekha, rlipman, rpetti, stuhood I hope that this archive may help you guys.

goodside 15y ago

Also, a clean HTML5 template: http://sampleresumetemplate.net/ http://sampleresumetemplate.net/ I just print to PDF from there, and attach the result.

Zephyr314 15y ago
That looks really clean and nice. I'll definitely use this as a web template for future resumes.
daeken 15y ago
I designed mine from scratch with HTML + CSS and use http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/ to render to PDF from there. Really handy. https://github.com/daeken/daeken.github.com/blob/master/CV.html https://github.com/daeken/daeken.github.com/blob/master/CV.h... is clean and simple and gets turned into http://daeken.github.com/CV.pdf http://daeken.github.com/CV.pdf (which is woefully out of date at this point). Feel free to use it as a base.
- stevejohnson 15y ago
  I've often thought of doing the same. Are there any special flags you pass to wkhtmltopdf or is it pretty straightforward?
  - daeken 15y ago
    I don't believe I pass any flags at all, just pass the HTML and PDF filenames to it.
- charlesofarrell 15y ago
  I switched from LaTeX to reStructredText recently. While obviously not as powerful, it makes it much easier to edit. GitHub evens displays it semi-nicely for free. https://github.com/charleso/resume https://github.com/charleso/resume http://cv.charleso.org/ http://cv.charleso.org/
j79 15y ago

sxtxixtxcxh 15y ago

i did something similar[1] as an excuse to try out nanoc[2]. [1] https://github.com/sxtxixtxcxh/resume https://github.com/sxtxixtxcxh/resume [2] http://nanoc.stoneship.org/ http://nanoc.stoneship.org/

chrissnell 15y ago

I used to spend hours working on my resume in LaTeX, under the belief that it would buy me geek cred from employers who could recognize the typesetting. Not one person ever noticed it and the hassle from recruiters that wanted a Word doc finally motivated me to switch to Word. Sad but that's the way it goes.

burgerbrain 15y ago
As a counterpoint, I've recently had two interviewers recognize (and comment) on me using TeX because they recognized Computer Modern. One commented that I should have typed '\latex' instead of just 'latex' (I agreed of course, but mentioned that I didn't want to be too flashy). I got offers from both. I don't use recruiters, preferring to rely on personal connections, but would they really balk that much at a PDF resume?
jacques_chester 15y ago
I think that discovering which recruiters will hassle you for Word files is a feature, not a bug. There is no good reason for them to require Word that doesn't, ultimately, come down to them either a) being too lazy to cut and paste into a database, or b) wanting to "improve" your CV before passing it on.

cavilling_elite 15y ago

Sneaky way to get your resume on HN. :)

Zephyr314 15y ago
I'm sure I don't know what you are talking about ;) This plus the links in the comments are a great starting up point for someone looking to do this for the first time, something I wish I had years ago when I started.

TreyHenninger 15y ago

Just use indeed for resumes. http://www.indeed.com/resumes http://www.indeed.com/resumes

jimktrains2 15y ago

I like mine a little better: https://github.com/jimktrains/Resume/raw/master/Jim_Keener_resume.pdf https://github.com/jimktrains/Resume/raw/master/Jim_Keener_r...

baddox 15y ago
Nice, although I still think yours screams "I was made with Latex" a little too loudly. What do you think of mine? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/712576/thomas_shaddox_resume.pdf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/712576/thomas_shaddox_resume.pdf (the content is still from college days when I had no real experience, so please don't judge the content)
- jimktrains2 15y ago
  I wanted the "I was made with LaTex" feel:-p Yours looks nice, and has less of the LaTex feel to it:)

rezscore 15y ago

This is awesome! We run a resume grading website (http://rezscore.com http://rezscore.com ) and would love to implement this, could you help us? Email jen /AT/ rezscore \DOT\ com

th 15y ago

I made a LaTex resume a while back too: https://github.com/treyhunner/resume https://github.com/treyhunner/resume

cies 15y ago
where's the pdf?
- th 15y ago
  I've added one now: https://github.com/treyhunner/resume/blob/master/resume.pdf https://github.com/treyhunner/resume/blob/master/resume.pdf I hadn't thought to add example output.
  - cies 15y ago
    quite nice.. pls have a look at mine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016040 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3016040 (the announcement here on hn)

mittermayr 15y ago

once done with your resume/cv, do us a favor and try it with our resume analyzer - it'll tell you a lot of things about the quality/content of your resume (and other things you might have missed). it's free, and automated. http://www.twentypeople.com/public/u/resumeanalyzer http://www.twentypeople.com/public/u/resumeanalyzer

flarg 15y ago

Props to you for using LaTeX! I too trod the road to CV perfection, from the early unwashed days of MS Word (bah!), to HTML (blah!), LaTeX (shucks!), XML (arrgh!) and finally to ReST (hooray!). Sadly no one cared; recruiters wanted MS Word or RTF and employers valued beauty in phrasing over beauty of typesetting and so I hired a CV writer and stuck to Open Office / Google Docs. Hope it works out for you though!

daniel-cussen 15y ago

I currently use scribtex.com for all my LaTex needs because it already has all the libraries loaded properly. This was a gigantic pain in the ass for me. Having software set up properly is IMO a good case for a web app; with scribtex, all you need is a text editor to produce good pdfs. I highly recommend it. (Please keep it in business.)

chrismetcalf 15y ago

I might as well throw mine in the ring as well: https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume (Example: https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume/blob/master/Chris_Metcalf_Resume.pdf?raw=true https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume/blob/master/Chris_Met...). I like the modernCV format a lot, I'll likely try to crib some features from there.

alain94040 15y ago

Two quick facts, as a hiring manager (your mileage may vary, but this is how I think): 1) I can usually tell that you wrote your resume in TeX 2) I then classify you immediately in the "advanced geeks" category, with a "probably hard to work with because is picky" flag...

zyfo 15y ago
The (negative) "picky flag" says more about you or the company that you represent than the person applying. Being picky about your tools and what you produce should be a positive sign. It shows that you care. It doesn't say anything about how flexible the person is.
- eru 15y ago
  Also if they send in their TeX-ed resume as a pdf (and not a sensible format like postscript), it shows that they can compromise.
  - sliverstorm 15y ago
    Considering postscript "sensible" is a red flag, if I ever saw one. Not to be negative, but while that might have been suitable 30 years ago...
    - eru 15y ago
      I meant `sensible' purely in the technical sense. Postscript is superior to pdf. pdf is basically a stripped down postscript in binary format as a premature size optimization. ps.gz is usually smaller than the equivalent pdf. I wouldn't send out postscript files to people I don't know, since you can't assume that people are able to read them. I assume your comment was purely about the social point of view? Or are there technical reasons for foregoing postscript documents you may want to print? (Especially reasons that didn't exist 30 years ago.) Thanks!
      - sliverstorm 15y ago

baddox 15y ago

Perhaps it's just the font, but this and most other Latex resumes scream "I was made with Latex!" For some jobs, that might buy some geek cred, but I wanted to make mine less Latexy. What do you think? (Disclaimer: content is crappy and outdated) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/712576/thomas_shaddox_resume.pdf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/712576/thomas_shaddox_resume.pdf

aw3c2 15y ago
I really do not like the italic text. Immediately thought of cheap newspaper classifieds. Maybe just not make that italic? It is already lighter than the main headlines so it might be different enough. Monospace for "internet things" is geeky, looked weird. Lose the "(primary)" at the cell number unless you add another number. Bullet points maybe? "company." as single word in a line is sub-optimal. "development teams of 2-5." -> "development teams of 2-5 people." "Email" -> "E-Mail", I am not sure about this. You silly Amer. wi. al. your abbr. in addr. :)

BrandonM 15y ago

I can upload an HTML template that I created, if anyone is interested. You can post it on a webpage, or you can use your browser to print to PDF and send it that way.

leverage 15y ago

Thought this might be a good place to get some feedback on my own template: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13800588/Anonymous.August.2011.pdf http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13800588/Anonymous.August.2011.pdf Will share the .tex if people want it.

dgrant 15y ago

As the original creator of this resume template, I must say it looks rather nice! :-) This is the .tex file I started with: http://matthewm.boedicker.org/doc/resume/resume.pdf http://matthewm.boedicker.org/doc/resume/resume.pdf then I took my Word resume (that had the shading, and some other things) and converted it into this: http://www.davidgrant.ca/latex_resume_template http://www.davidgrant.ca/latex_resume_template I made it because I loved my Word resume and I didn't like any of the LaTeX resumes out there on the Web. I also hated Word and loved using LaTeX. It made it into CTAN as a .sty file thanks to the efforts of George Louthan: http://georgerloutha.nthefourth.com/projects/tucv http://georgerloutha.nthefourth.com/projects/tucv http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tucv http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tucv Example using tucv package: http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/tucv/tucv_ex.pdf http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/tucv/tucv... Personally, I hate using .sty or .cls for a resume. I think using a .tex file as it allows full customization/tweaking of the entire file, easily. A resume isn't something that can be easily generalized to a .sty or .cls IMO.

Zephyr314 15y ago
Thank you for making the original template! I've used it for the past few years and it has been great!

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splicer 15y ago

It should be TeXnically feasible to do something of this caliber: http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/creative-resume-designs/ http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/creative-resume-de... And yet, all the TeX resume/CV examples I ever see are fairly boring.

cies 15y ago

i've looked at most, if not all, of the CVs & templates referred to on this page, but must say i like my TEX resume better. :) https://github.com/cies/resume https://github.com/cies/resume i like typesetting, so naturally did my best. it uses the pagella font that is often used for books (with 'low case numbers' -- i love those). except the h-lines and some bullets everything is made of text. uses hyper-refs where applicable, in dark blue so 'print safe'. everything is open source, how to compile this on ubuntu is in the header comment of the tex file. it is originally based on a file found on toofishes' blog: http://www.toofishes.net/blog/tags/latex http://www.toofishes.net/blog/tags/latex please let me know what you think!

alexkay 15y ago

Instead of writing my CV in TeX, I did it in markdown with pandoc [0] extensions. The good thing about this approach is that (a) the source is much more readable than TeX and (b) there are more conversion options, e.g. html is much saner than when using one of TeX2Html converters. The result is in my website [1][2], the source code is on GitHub [3]. [0] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html [1] http://www.kojevnikov.com/cv.pdf http://www.kojevnikov.com/cv.pdf [2] http://www.kojevnikov.com/cv.html http://www.kojevnikov.com/cv.html [3] https://github.com/alexkay/homepage https://github.com/alexkay/homepage

stewbrew 15y ago

Do you know a way to generate CVs in europass[1] format? [1] http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/vernav/Europass+Documents/Europass+CV.csp http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/vernav/Europ...

Aarvay 15y ago

This is mine (http://aarvay.in/resume.pdf http://aarvay.in/resume.pdf) and I love it. You can fork the same if you like it from (https://github.com/aarvay/resume/ https://github.com/aarvay/resume/)

jinushaun 15y ago

Seems too cumbersome. Plus, mixing the resume information with the formatting looks like a maintenance nightmare. That's why I store my resume as XML (model) and transform it into HTML (view) using XSLT (controller). The XML file includes my complete resume, and I use XSLT to generate different resumes that each display a subset of that information. It's as simple as myname.com/resume/dev or myname.com/resume/dba. The resulting HTML also copy and pastes well into Notepad or textarea form fields. I can also take this same XML data and convert it to PDF using a server-side PDF library. If I ever get around to updating the code behind it, I'll convert it to HTML5/canvas.