Disagree with the latex point. If you are using latex just to put your resume together, you are wasting your time. Just do it in google docs or word. Anyone reviewing your resume won't even care unless you brought it up for some reason.
But I noticed that applicant-tracking systems tended to not know what to do with the PDF, and I started to suspect that some companies weren't actually seeing my resume as a result. So I redid the resume in LibreOffice, and using a boring layout intended to be parsed easily by lousy ATSs.
That’s a feature as far as I’m concerned. Companies that use these monstrosity ATSs that can’t be bothered to parse a valid PDF CV and that require hoops just to apply (create yet another account in their ATS, copy my cv into hundreds of text boxes, can’t proceed without a salary expectation or past salary history etc are places I want nothing to do with.
I had a sick 2, and for a second 3 column resume, and that always got mangled.
Even the single column LaTeX resume had challenges.
Never had an issue with MS Word. If I'm sending a resume to a person I know (e.g. met at a Linux User Group, etc.), I'll go with the LaTeX resumes, but otherwise you gotta get past ATS and that means MS Word.
I’ve once seen a résumé where someone meticulously crafted something out of multiple nested tables in Word - you could tell because the spacing was always a little different.
It really made me question their competency, not because proficiency in Word matters, but they obviously wasted so much time with something they had no idea how to do and could have just left out and the result would be better.
I don’t want to know what they’d do to the codebase.
Last time I was job hunting it occurred to me I could just dump all that info into a Pages document and do the same process with instant WYSIWYG feedback, which I now do.
I still use the script out of habit, though I wouldn't write it now.
You don't need to use latex to benefit from this though. Just use computer modern.
I bias against those resumes now.
Actually I've used my CV but also its deployment pipeline to sell myself!
I use personally Asciidoc and asciidoctor-pdf to generate my resume as PDF. It's easier and less prone to funny formatting shifts typical of Word documents.
Alles that you’re very technical, might even offer engineer any solution I want.
Hiring managers are usually not this kind of nerds.
Why won't a PDF generated by LaTeX get into the ATS?