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Neat & Simple Resume Template

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A tangential: after seeing this and almost.at, I conclude that aesthetically pleasing websites really matter.

This was apparent when I was in high school, even: the kid that did best in our CS class had the best eye candy (and he went to Stanford and now works at Facebook I think).

So I'm going to bookmark all of these eye-catching websites on HN and study them. Not only should my startup be something that people want, but also something that makes them enjoy simply looking at it. Good-looking websites draw attention. Useful websites retain and help build a user base.

I've been feeling the exact same way lately ...

The designers behind this: http://thingsthatarebrown.com/

I've also been going back to these guys a lot lately: http://metalabdesign.com/ (Some of their work has been on HN lately)

http://metalabdesign.com/*
"Hyper usable" made me smile :)

It's not just eye catchy most of the websites that are useful and retain a large user base are simple... in that they are very minimal and nice looking, look at facebook compared to myspace or google compared to the new bing there are obvious winners on aesthetics.
Even things like gmail, twitter and webapps like basecamp can be visually pleasing but keep that needed minimal look.

My big question is: how do you make the PDF? I have my resume in LaTeX right now - and it works well enough (although, it is getting a bit long in the tooth).
Ideally, I would like to store my resume in some sort of presentation agnostic 'schema' which I could then compile into HTML, plain-text, and PDF with one click. Does anyone know of any tool that does something like this?
I'm almost thinking of XML/XSLT except for the fact that XSLT is the devil's language (and I don't know a good way to use it to generate a pretty PDF).

What you're describing is latex. There exists a myriad of scripts to convert latex to different formats[1], so I'd try to adopt one of these before creating your own XML schema.
[1]: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Export_To_Other_Formats

Yes and no ...
Maybe my resume is written incorrectly now but,a s it stands, a lot of presentation is mixed with the content. That would make it ugly to do things like have only the HTML version include logos of employers or having the plaintext use a completely different formatting.

I would like to do this too. I've thought about it a bit, and it seems like you could create a latex template that would allow for easy parse-and-export into HTML. That way, you retain your latex styling, and adjust it accordingly for the HTML version.
Honestly, though, I don't change my resume enough for something like this to be worth the time-input for me. I'm probably going to just live with having two versions to build/update.

I've used this: http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/ It puts out pretty good looking resumes and it can render to HTML, plain text, or PDF. It is written in Java and uses Apache FOP http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

You don't need to make a PDF of this. You just print it out. HTML and the Web are made for paper. The screen is just treated by current GUIs and by the Web as a glorified paper-displaying device.
If you're thinking of sending this to other people, just send them the link and highlight it in someway to attract their attention.

apache fop is a reasonable way to use xml/xslt to make a decently pretty PDF http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

Cool. I know you want me to download, but I'd really like to see a working example before doing so. The overlay in the image is nice, but I'd switch it to a click-through to the example. The download button is enough.

it's not actually mine, just stumbled upon it - but I uploaded it to try out...: http://zee.me/cv.html

Here is another one, made by the creator of that template: http://thingsthatarebrown.com/resume/

ooh, the brown does look nice :)

Haha, great resume...

How about a "neat & simple" sales letter, you know, for those of us who are not pushing resumes? ;-)

I know you say that tongue-in-cheek, but it's a good point. I'd love to see a few samples of sales letters and business proposals that have worked for YC'rs. 'Softer' than term sheets, but it would still be instructional.

If you do not include any links on the resume, you're treating HTML/theWeb as a glorified paper-creation language.
At least link to the companies you previously worked for!

Is there a neat and simple pdf resume template that replicates something like this? What tex templates have HN people used for their resume?

The CV template at http://biosun1.harvard.edu/~paciorek/computing/Latex_templat... was doing the rounds a while ago (see http://biosun1.harvard.edu/~paciorek/cv/cv.html for the example).
Personally, I like the look of http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/5.

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