What do you guys use to build your CVs? Do you automate it in any way or just use something like Google Docs? I’d be interested to know.
Personally I’ve been using rendercv for a while and I can’t imagine going back to doing it manually. However, I think I might need some more flexibility. Been struggling to get any interviews so I’ve been doing what I can to experiment with my CV. If any of you have a good typst template they’ve actually used to land a role I would love to steal borrow it.
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I used LaTeX! I found a resume template and edited it.
I’m surprised there isn’t a good typst template for resumes that is easy to edit!
I recently ported my CV from LaTeX to typst. I found the modern-cv template to almost match the one I used in LaTeX, and was fairly straightforward to use. And this was the first time I used typst.
Same, I just like the typesetting defaults and ligatures. On Linux texlive+pdflatex and windows miktex.org if anyone else wants to try. Overleaf.com has a bunch of templates.
Yep, whatever template I use looks really nice. Very professional.
It’s actually the most editable format my resume has ever been in, too! I started using LaTeX over a decade ago. I just update it when I need to and it prints out exactly the same way to PDF.
I will proselytize something like this for a resume any time. I am very curious about typst as well!
I think I’m using this library: https://typst.app/universe/package/modern-cv/
It works well enough.
Thanks I’ll check it out
i just filled out the Europass template really
Interesting, had success with it?
yeah, it’s the “standard” cv in the EU, never used anything else really
I write my CV in Markdown (just headers and bullet points), and then use
pandocto generate a pdf. Very easy and straightforward!This has landed me interviews although not hired (I think that’s down to me, not the format of my CV 😅)
pandoc \ --variable title-meta:"ambitiousslab - CV" \ --variable author-meta:"ambitiousslab <ambitiousslab@example.org>" \ --variable lang:"en-GB" \ --variable geometry:margin=1cm \ --variable colorlinks:true \ --variable pagestyle=empty \ cv.md \ -o ambitiousslab-cv.pdfOh cool
Basic HTML hosted at cv.dallen.co
I have a pipeline that creates a PDF version with weasyprint: https://github.com/damienallen/cv
Looks cool, thanks for sharing
Page on my personal site, with good print styles so I can print to pdf if needed.
Oh interesting - mind sharing or too personal?
Eh, I try to keep this username separate from my real name. It’s not too hard though, you just need ‘@media print {‘. Set display none on stuff like the navbar and footer, and you also need to think about page breaks and such, there are guides.
Browser dev tools can simulate print styles, and you can preview with the regular print preview. To get consistency across browsers you probably want to set a definite width, so the sizing stays the same.
Yep fair enough. Thanks for the the tips.
libre office. I don’t believe chaning my resume is going to get me a job when its the state of the economy. As long as its clean and comprehensive. I have been through many searches and there is always folk that want it this way or that way and it changes in time and space but its unlikely to be the thing that gets you the job. Especially given the keyword and maybe ai searching now.
LaTeX and gitlab but today it’s mostly for fun. To get any replies you have to use one of online generators. It doesn’t matter if it’s readable to humans anymore. AI has to be able to parse it.
I see - any recommendations for generators? Probably won’t do it but good to know.
https://www.myperfectresume.com/ worked fine for me.
I’m mainly a web developer so my CV is a website. Nothing fancy, just simple HTML and clean CSS with links to references.
For places that require a file to apply, do you use the print functionality to get a PDF file like the another user that commented?
I probably wouldn’t apply since they clearly don’t have their shit together. But yeah, I have made sure it also prints out nicely.
I use Google Slides - you get better control over the layout.
Draw.io allows you to build quite sophisticated stuff. If you use group + lock/unlock + copy/paste, it’s not half bad.
Using pdflatex and a tree of resumes stored with git, one tailored to each application. And a lot of proofreading by other people. Get feedback on what you prepare!
I’ve tried it before but I found Latex a bit hard to work with. I’ll probably use
typstif I’m doing it manually. Any templates in particular you recommend though?I’ve created my own version based on the Simple Hipster template.
Interesting, thanks. Had much success with it?
Success as in getting hired? Yes.
With your version of that template yeah. Cool!
I wrote my CV in markdown for my website. I just submit the markdown file as the resume. For the few jobs I’ve applied to that have required a PDF, I just copied the text from my webpage (to get rich text formatting) into LibreOffice and exported as a PDF.
Though, I might not not be the best example to follow, I’ve been unemployed for almost 6 months.
I’ve been unemployed for almost 6 months
Same 🙃.
Interesting to just use straight markdown though. Have you landed any roles previously with that?
Yeah, the last 5 jobs (of 6 jobs) I’ve had I’ve applied with a markdown file or just a link to the rendered webpage in an email, IIRC.
In my head at least, it helps me filter for companies/managers that appreciate a hacker mentality. I also suspect it might help the applicant tracking systems parse my shit more correctly since it’s just plaintext. (Though the opposite could also be true since I assume the vast majority of submissions would be PDF.)
Oh cool. That would be ideal honestly. PDFs are kind of annoying.
In my head at least, it helps me filter for companies/managers that appreciate a hacker mentality.
Yeah it must do. Unfortunately the last thing I can be at the moment is picky haha
