What do you guys use to build your CVs? Do you automate it in any way or just use something like Google Docs? I’d be interested to know.

Personally I’ve been using rendercv for a while and I can’t imagine going back to doing it manually. However, I think I might need some more flexibility. Been struggling to get any interviews so I’ve been doing what I can to experiment with my CV. If any of you have a good typst template they’ve actually used to land a role I would love to steal borrow it.

  • azdleA
    9·
    2 days ago

    I wrote my CV in markdown for my website. I just submit the markdown file as the resume. For the few jobs I’ve applied to that have required a PDF, I just copied the text from my webpage (to get rich text formatting) into LibreOffice and exported as a PDF.

    Though, I might not not be the best example to follow, I’ve been unemployed for almost 6 months.

    • _hovi_@lemmy.worldOP
      5·
      2 days ago

      I’ve been unemployed for almost 6 months

      Same 🙃.

      Interesting to just use straight markdown though. Have you landed any roles previously with that?

      • azdleA
        4·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, the last 5 jobs (of 6 jobs) I’ve had I’ve applied with a markdown file or just a link to the rendered webpage in an email, IIRC.

        In my head at least, it helps me filter for companies/managers that appreciate a hacker mentality. I also suspect it might help the applicant tracking systems parse my shit more correctly since it’s just plaintext. (Though the opposite could also be true since I assume the vast majority of submissions would be PDF.)

        • _hovi_@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          2 days ago

          Oh cool. That would be ideal honestly. PDFs are kind of annoying.

          In my head at least, it helps me filter for companies/managers that appreciate a hacker mentality.

          Yeah it must do. Unfortunately the last thing I can be at the moment is picky haha