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I don’t get the LaTeX thing — won’t recruiters and managers just print your LinkedIn to PDF if they need to pass it around in hardcopy form?
by KerrAvon 3y ago
I don’t get the LaTeX thing — won’t recruiters and managers just print your LinkedIn to PDF if they need to pass it around in hardcopy form?
- blowski 3y agoIf I did get it in LaTeX I would probably question how much you think about your users, rather than looking clever around other devs.
- olddustytrail 3y agoLaTeX isn't the output format. You'd get it as a generated PDF.
- blowski 3y agoThe submission seems to suggest sending it in LaTeX to “impress” the hiring manager.
- jakey_bakey 3y agoAddendum: This only works if the hiring manager is a nerd like me
- unmole 3y ago> The submission seems to suggest sending it in LaTeX to “impress” the hiring manager. No, it did not. The author linked his resume as an example: A PDF generated from LaTeX.
- partdavid 3y agoThere's a really tiny niche case where someone might notice or, if you point it out, be impressed or amused and have some say in the hiring process, but these will be weird rare situations that you can't predict anyway. I think you should do your resume with your most comfortable tool, and that might be LaTeX (in which case you can expand on it) or it might be Google docs and you know what? That's a pretty common documentation skill to want to have, too.
- ar_lan 3y agoIs LinkedIn often used as a resume? LinkedIn to me is a social media platform. At least in the software companies I've worked for, and applied to, I've only ever seen actual resumes around.
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoMany resumes are super wordy. It can be easier to skim a LinkedIn profile than suffer through those.
- ghaff 3y agoIt's even easier to just toss the resume.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> even easier to just toss the resume I'm not convinced resume editing is a skill correlated with anything I hire for.
- flyingfences 3y agoEffective communication is absolutely something I'm looking for in a candidate. The ability to communicate clearly and succinctly in writing is critical. I've worked with far too many people who'll respond to a question with paragraphs of narrative and reasoning and background information without actually giving a clear answer to the question.
- eertami 3y agoI don't have a LinkedIn, and it doesn't let me view a profile without an account, which forces me to pass on applications that don't have a CV attached.