> E: Embrace LaTeX
How does a hiring manager know that a resume was created using LaTex? I downloaded the author's PDF resume and it pretty much looked like any other PDF.
How does a hiring manager know that a resume was created using LaTex? I downloaded the author's PDF resume and it pretty much looked like any other PDF.
You can also check the pdf metadata and see:
Creator: LaTeX with hyperref
Producer: pdfTeX-1.40.24
This rule only applies to a certain percentage of people, but I've benefited from it as well. For my first internship, I later found out that the only reason they interviewed me was because I used LaTeX. On paper, I was a generic student, but using LaTeX for my CV made me stand out.
I think it creates an unconscious bias. If you've gone to university and read some papers, chances are all the papers were written with LaTeX. You spend hours reading and re-reading these papers and it creates an unconscious bias where you read things in the font more carefully because you're used to the content being insanely dense.
Personally, i find the use of LaTeX a small red flag. Using it certainly does send "a subtle but clear message", but it's not that you love software engineering, it's that you're willing to waste time fiddling around with abstruse technical stuff rather than doing something useful.
Cough cough K8s/microservices cough cough jira cough
Yeah, having an easily versioned plaintext format is such a waste of time. So much better to deal with constantly changing GUIs instead. /s
I actually write my CV in markdown and use pandoc to generate a PDF from that, but pandoc uses LaTeX to produce PDFs and I've had interviewers comment on it.