Your CV in LaTeX - part four

stefano.italians.nl

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(Really sorry if this post sounds like a job search, I have a good job and am not looking for one). 10 months ago someone posted a story on programming.reddit on how to write your CV using LaTeX; I put a link to mine and released the source. I got praise for it, so I'd like to share it here as well.

This is the “neat LATEX Résumé” on http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/resume-writing-example-latex-tem...

Direct link to the PDF (French résumé): http://n.favrefelix.free.fr/cv.pdf

Thanks! This is Neat. I can actually read your .cls file without getting a TeX headache.

As much as I like LaTeX, It's not something I would typeset my resumé in. Then again, I was a graphic designer in another life and I think that resumés that stand out, stand a chance.

I can tell you that when I'm looking through a pile of resumés, the ones that are actually interesting/eye catching are probably the ones of the people who I want working with me.

Doesn't everyone make their CV in Latex?

Before I went self-employed, I was involved in hiring for the company I worked for. 99% of CVs were MS Word documents. Also, most of them were pretty bad, especially the ones coming in through agencies. (no clear structure, terrible formatting, butchered English)

Personally, I've always maintained mine in (very plain) HTML and LaTeX versions.

Unless they want to be employed.

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