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You can totally see when a résumé was created in LaTeX and I always counted that as a bonus.
by pantalaimon 3y ago
You can totally see when a résumé was created in LaTeX and I always counted that as a bonus.
- jldugger 3y agoOn the other hand, that dude is going to write the FAQ in LaTeX and then complain nobody else contributes.
- pantalaimon 3y agoWrite it in Markdown and let Pandoc turn it into LaTeX or whatever you desire
- jakey_bakey 3y agoYeah, it's more a case of, "me and probably 10% of hiring managers are massively biased in favour of LaTeX if we see it, and the other 90% won't care either way"
- somenewaccount1 3y agoUhhh..probably you and .2% of hiring managers. I've never cared when hiring, and have never heard this advice anywhere but this post. No offense, but if it was as common as 10%, recruiters and bloggers would be suggesting it left and right.
- throwaway675309 3y ago10% is being exceptionally generous I think. Anecdotally I've never heard of a single manager getting a crap how your PDF was produced, and a lot of the hiring and recruiting agencies will probably end up snapping the data out of your PDF and converting it to some standardized format, so the Latex will be completely rendered out. To me this feels like a case of a publisher passing on a novel because the author wrote it using notepad.exe versus vim.
- garfij 3y agoWhat are some signs a résumé was created in LaTex?
- doix 3y agoThe font will be Computer Modern, that's the most obvious one.
- jakey_bakey 3y agoBasically this; the advice could just as easily read "use Computer Modern font" but that wouldn't get as much controversy/engagement
- SantalBlush 3y agoEveryone seems to be missing the main benefit of using LaTeX: it creates professional-looking documents. That is its whole purpose. I use Adobe Garamond Pro in my LaTeX résumé, and while I'm sure nobody recognizes that it's LaTeX, the document just looks sharp.
- ornornor 3y agoPerfectly aligned paragraphs on the left and the right. Other packages produce ragged line ends and/or ridiculous spacing between words (Word’s justify)