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Comments -- on both the Latex code and the content of my resume -- are very welcome!
by cies 15y ago
Comments -- on both the Latex code and the content of my resume -- are very welcome!
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- cies 15y agoThanks! Fixed it.
- rmk2 15y agoWhat about the use of microtypography? I think that you'd get optically cleaner margins (on the right) by using the microtype package. \usepackage{microtype} just works, though you could feed it \usepackage[expansion,protrusion]{microtype}. Since you have the \ifxetex switch and since XeTeX doesn't support expansion yet, you'd have to throw a \usepackage[protrusion]{microtype} in there, given that you have the XeTeX-microtype-package installed.
- cies 15y agowow.. never heard of the microtype package. look very nice, will be playing with this for sure. thanks!
- rmk2 15y agoOne of the most impressive things about the package really is that it "just works". And especially protrusion is wonderful in my opinion, since it really makes nicer margins. Glad you like it!
- dfc 15y agoDoes microtype do anything constructive with sloppy on?
- pilgrim689 15y agoWhy do you put a summary on your résumé as opposed to having it in a separate cover letter? Have you gotten better responses after putting that summary there? I ask because I've never seen it done and my first impression was to not want to read the résumé because of the wall of text. (I wasn't trying to hire you so my first reaction is probably biased, though)
- ahcox 15y agoThis part of the CV looks like a cross between a covering letter and a profile/summary to me. It seems too long and it repeats information that is present elsewhere in the CV. I would shorten it and use it to get your main message across to the person scanning it at high speed. Sorry to post my own latex-generated CV twice in one thread, but for ease of reference, this is what I mean: http://www.hoogli.com/Andrew_Cox_cv.pdf http://www.hoogli.com/Andrew_Cox_cv.pdf My profile there splits into two parts: 1. I am ... 2. I want ... So: "Strong software engineer with substantial OpenGL and OpenGL ES and general 3D graphics and GPU programming experience, a background in R&D, and currently developing for Android [1]. Looking for challenging short-term contracts that leverage these strengths[2]." That's it.
- cies 15y agoThanks for the tips.. > Sorry to post my own latex-generated CV twice in one thread No worries. :)
- wahnfrieden 15y agoI would also leave out the personal history of how you first started using computers, particularly as the first couple lines of your resume. It's the first thing I read and while it's a nice story it's not really relevant.
- cies 15y agoNote taken.. thanks.
- anghyflawn 15y agoI would say you need a somewhat cleaner approach to placing things on the page. For instance, two paragraph breaks in a row are very non-idiomatic: try \vspace{2\baselineskip} instead. Instead of manually putting a hard space after punctuation, you probably want \frenchspacing. Also, using \sloppy as the default option is terrible. The purpose of \sloppy is to save a really bad paragraph that cannot be rewritten. Visually, I agree that it is way too compressed, especially for a CV where the highlights should jump out at the reader. I understand you're trying to cram it into as few pages as possible, but you end up with horribly long lines. It could also use some vertical whitespace. If you must decrease the number of pages, think about trimming the content. Just my 2 cents, of course.
- cies 15y agoThanks a lot for the valuable insights.