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I made a LaTeX template for Pandoc, so one can write a resume in Markdown (and some YAML) and generate a PDF (or LaTeX). It's on GitHub: https://github.com/john-bokma/resume-pandoc

It needs a LaTeX install, and Pandoc, of course as explained in http://johnbokma.com/blog/2017/05/17/installing-latest-pando... The instructions are for Ubuntu 17.04 but work for 19.04 as well (tested this weekend).

Example resume: http://castleamber.com/documents/perl-programmer-john-bokma-... (PDF).

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I used md + pandoc for my resume before as well, but I wanted some more possibilities in changing the layout of the pdf. I remember needing to do some stuff in LaTeX to do that but I don't know that very well.

So I took a different approach with node. I have a yaml file with my cv data [1] in it and I render this in an ejs template to html+css. That html then gets transformed to a pdf. The result can be seen here [2] And the source code here [3]

[1]: https://gitlab.com/jeroenpelgrims/resume/blob/master/resume....

[2]: http://jeroenpelgrims.gitlab.io/resume/resume.pdf

[3]: https://gitlab.com/jeroenpelgrims/resume

The convention is to write a 1 page resume. Your example is too verbose.

I am aware of this and have plans to trim it down to 1 page. Thank you for the feedback.

Please keep both versions up to date! Once you get the attention of recruiter (using your one-page Resume) then they usually ask for more information - longer CV, skills matrix, etc.

I invested some time to shorten my resume to exactly one page and now I get a bit irritated when people ask me for a longer version.

Thanks for your feedback. I will keep both and call the short one my resume and the long one my CV.

It varies by country and industry. Six pages is fine in my experience.

Which country is it? With 6 pages one needs to be a phd with 20 years of experience and plenty to show, otherwise 1-2 pages max.

Well yeah that’s the kind of person working in my industry.

My current principal investigator has a 40-odd page CV. They’ve been doing research since the mid-70s: hundreds of invited talks, papers, posters, book chapters, awards, etc. take up a lot of space.

This highlights the difference between a resume and a CV.

yes. They don’t have a resume at all in fact.

Right, but in the UK, for example, we don't do resumes, only CVs.

Are you saying that everyone in the UK is an academic?

> Are you saying that everyone in the UK is an academic?

Does it honestly seem likely to you that that's what I'm saying?

No.

I'm saying people in the UK don't write resumes. They write CVs. Whether they're an academic or not. And they're generally a couple of pages at the very least.

I get that's different to how it is where you are - but it's normal for things to be different in different places around the world.

The funny part is during hiring etc people pore over CVs like this too. I was in academia for a few years and invited talks etc pile up rapidly, and are pretty repetitive anyway. I stopped reporting most invited talks and just had a section on selected invited talks.

CV and resume are different things.

Lol, create a summary one page. Showing your full history can separate you from the masses.

Varies - UK used to be 2.5 pages max, but can imagine academic CVs being longer.

in my (american academic) usage, “resume” is exactly one page and is a custom-made document to apply for a specific industry job. “CV” is “literally everything i’ve ever done since freshman year of undergrad”, and may run to 40 or more pages for senior researchers. A "biosketch" is a CV that is tabular and formatted according to semi-arcane rules laid out by funding agencies, normally the NIH.

I think of a resume as a targeted redaction of my CV.

That distinction is good to know, thanks!

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