Ask HN: Do you have a template for your CV/Resume?
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I just use http://creddle.io/
I'd love to find a better one, but I don't want to spend a lot of time adjusting line breaks, formatting, font size.
Education at top. Chronological experience. Job lists responsibility, results, actions taken to achieve results.
Skills are listed separately in the form of years of experience. This is controversial, because I have 3 years exp using Node but still suck at it. But I've used this format because job requirements also use time to gauge value. I know a lot of people skim skills, so I give them their own section.
Projects and other eye catchers at the bottom.
I do have a professional freelance portfolio. Resume coaches tell me it's pointless to add because companies won't click it, but people who actually read resumes get excited when they see it.
I'd love to find a better one, but I don't want to spend a lot of time adjusting line breaks, formatting, font size.
Education at top. Chronological experience. Job lists responsibility, results, actions taken to achieve results.
Skills are listed separately in the form of years of experience. This is controversial, because I have 3 years exp using Node but still suck at it. But I've used this format because job requirements also use time to gauge value. I know a lot of people skim skills, so I give them their own section.
Projects and other eye catchers at the bottom.
I do have a professional freelance portfolio. Resume coaches tell me it's pointless to add because companies won't click it, but people who actually read resumes get excited when they see it.
It is all about who is the target audience and what message you are trying to send. What technologies the target company is using? What role they are trying to fill in? Usually, I list technologies and my experience with them. If I actually care about the company/position, I expand on the projects and technologies that matter for the occasion.
Why would you submit a CV to a company/position you don't care about?
Testing of resume acceptance, practice, doubt about judgement on said company (maybe what you expect is different), money, experience, positive mental feedback during the job hunt, bulk applying, mistakes (I thought I cared), recruitor pressurer, phishing attempt, depressed (may not care about anything).
Those are all of the reasons I can think of.
Why would you submit a CV only to places you care about?
Those are all of the reasons I can think of.
Why would you submit a CV only to places you care about?
> Why would you submit a CV only to places you care about?
To get a job
To get a job
Sometimes it is just probing the market. And sometimes the recruiter is an interesting person. I had such a case once where I went on an interview just because the recruiter was smart and professional guy and I enjoy talking to interesting people.
I made a LaTeX template for Pandoc: https://github.com/john-bokma/resume-pandoc/
I lead with the paragraph about what kind of job I am looking for. Then I list skills in a box, with the ones I like best first, or want to work in. Then I go for the history portion. Each job describe the position, with bullet points about major accomplishments. Make sure I mention each of the skills at least once. Followed by education.
For a given job I might reorder the skills or change the opening paragraph. When I am actively searching I typically have 4 or 5 primary versions.
For a given job I might reorder the skills or change the opening paragraph. When I am actively searching I typically have 4 or 5 primary versions.
You could also have a look at the Europass CV https://europa.eu/europass/en/create-europass-cv
It’s free, multi language, clean template and with many options. You can create it online and export in a number of different formats.
I use a simple Google Doc format exported to PDF, and LinkedIn.
This worked for me very well
http://bit.ly/37RvQap
What templates do you use and/or recommend?