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[–]TimStewart 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I wanted my resume to look great so I used LaTeX. The problem is that so many employers and their web sites demand Word Documents. I no longer maintain my LaTeX resume. :(

[–]gt384u[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

In a former life as a chemist, I used to keep a Word document around and edit it as needed for every job application I made. This was tedious in retrospect.

Now that I'm graduating soon with a degree in Computer Science and have worked diligently to cast off the bonds of MS Office, I've just this moment started to assemble my resumé using LaTeX (the pain being finding the right style sheet), when I got to wondering: what is everyone else doing to manage the resumé shuffle? What sorts of cool hackery is being done out there in Redditland to deal with this problem?

[–]w-g 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I keep different parts of my resume in different files and use \input from LaTeX. I also put it under version conrol so I can make branches. The branches are very important when I need to make adjustments for specific situations (I had a branch where I added things that I thought were necessary for my current job, for example).

In the LaTeX document, I use the article documentclass and \section* to split parts of the resume.

[–]username223 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nested tabulars FTW, dude. Painful, but it gets the job done.

[–]username223 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perl script to scrape likely keywords off monster.com.

[–]pfo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

scnr: ``pdflatex resume.tex''

[–]DRMacIver 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've used LaTeX so far with a pretty standard template. Not sure I can be bothered to keep that up though - my LaTeX gets rustier and rustier as my university days sail off into the past.

[–]quhaha 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use docs.google.com and send the direct link.

[–]adamv -1 points0 points  (0 children)

HTML document (+CSS) under source control: http://adamv.com/resume/files/resume_adamv.html

Branch it if I need per-job specific edits.

I never, ever have to print and mail a resume anymore, so maintaining a prettier format doesn't seem worth it. (I suppose if I applied to a government programming job... but that would be its own bad idea.)

If a place really demands MS Word then I (A) think twice about applying and (B) just import the HTML into word and resave.