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Not only does LaTeX make your resume look better, it also makes it easier to manage. I have a whole bunch of sections for things like different projects, experi
by tikhonj 14y ago
Not only does LaTeX make your resume look better, it also makes it easier to manage. I have a whole bunch of sections for things like different projects, experience, awards, education and so on. I can easily switch any of them out in any particular resume I want to print because they're all in separate files. The actual resume itself is just a bunch of includes, which means I can easily have multiple different permutations that are kept in sync whenever I update the appropriate sections.
Of course, this hasn't helped me at all because I haven't updated my resume in a year and a half. This might not seem too bad, but I was actually in the middle of freshman year last time I touched it :P.
- jedberg 14y agoYeah, that is another advantage. I use a combo of commenting things out and storing all the changes in git, so I can easily pull back old stuff if I need to for some reason. Git and LaTex play nicely together.
- anusinha 14y agoHeh, when I TeX-ified my resume, I used your code as a template. Just thought you might like the kudos :)
- jedberg 14y agoThat's why I published the source. Because it took me hours to find all the docs for all the different parts and put it all together. I figured I could help others out. I'm glad I was right!
- pjscott 14y agoOddly enough, your resume's source code is probably a more effective resume than any output it could possibly generate.
- jedberg 14y agoQuite possibly. Certainly doesn't hurt!
- tikhonj 14y agoHaha, you assume my code follows good TeX style and conventions. If the only code sample I ever saw by myself was that, even I wouldn't hire myself. (That was a confusing sentence to write :P.) If you can imagine a site with IE-specific code and a layout that's half specified with absolute positioning and half with , you wouldn't be that far off from what my resume code looks like. It's essentially held together with metaphorical duct tape and \vspace{}. It's like sausage--tastes great, but never visit a sausage factory :).