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A recent discussion on a mostly-phd-students mailing list that I am still a member of recently turned to the topic of formatting Resumes and Vitaes in LaTex. LaTeXis a document typesetting system for those of you that have never head of it. Pretty common in the academic environments and it has slowly gotten more attention due to its inclusion in almost every single Linux distribution out there.
Anyway, the question was "Does anyone have a latex style or template for their CV that they feel particularly strongly about?"
The response was:
While I cannot satisfy your exact request, I have an alternate suggestion. Although LaTeX is a great tool for typesetting static
documents that are usually read from beginning to end, the value in a resume is mostly from the individual bits and pieces of information it contains. Thus, in a world where bots look at your data more than humans do, any kind of semantic assistance you provide to them will be useful.
See: hresume
As an example, my own resume is marked up with microformats to be machine-friendly, it's in HTML so it's human-friendly, and it has a print-specific stylesheet so it's printer-friendly (see the print preview of the HTML page and how different it looks.)
worth a look to say the least.
Anyway, the question was "Does anyone have a latex style or template for their CV that they feel particularly strongly about?"
The response was:
While I cannot satisfy your exact request, I have an alternate suggestion. Although LaTeX is a great tool for typesetting static
documents that are usually read from beginning to end, the value in a resume is mostly from the individual bits and pieces of information it contains. Thus, in a world where bots look at your data more than humans do, any kind of semantic assistance you provide to them will be useful.
See: hresume
As an example, my own resume is marked up with microformats to be machine-friendly, it's in HTML so it's human-friendly, and it has a print-specific stylesheet so it's printer-friendly (see the print preview of the HTML page and how different it looks.)
worth a look to say the least.
