As someone who generally enjoys using LaTeX, who spent several years maintaining a LaTeX CV and who switched to Scribus a couple of years ago, this is bang-on.

As someone who generally enjoys using LaTeX, who spent several years maintaining a LaTeX CV and who switched to Scribus a couple of years ago, this is bang-on. The content–styling separation is very intuitive in Scribus (and, I assume, other DTP tools): define the bounds of your text boxes (and link them if required for your intended document layout), then edit the text in a seperate box and instantly see how it flows into the defined area(s). Of course, most of the jobs I've applied for in recent years have required me to enter my experience section-by-section into a Web form, negating the purpose of the CV entirely. Once or twice I've seen tools that allow you to upload your CV PDF and then attempt to extract as much info from it as possible. It's never gone very well, so it does make me think that LaTeX vs DTP vs Word is a less pertinent question to debate than ‘how can I produce a CV that can best be automatically parsed’. Absent any sort of structured CV data standard, I assume that means using the most widely-used tool to produce it, i.e. Word.