![]() ![]() Does LaTeX have those? Probably not.(My favorite resume template - getting it edited by other peopleLook, most software developers are pretty bad with creating resumes. Frankly, you probably aren't that good with design and layout.Fortunately, there are a ton of great resume templates for Microsoft Word. They should not be just opening up Microsoft Word and typing their resume from scratch. It makes it much easier to get it looking just right.Lack of good resume templatesIn almost all cases, a software developer should be using a professional resume template. ![]() They generally wind up with resumes that waste a lot of space.Again, with Microsoft Word, you know exactly what your resume will look like. But somehow, people who create their resumes with LaTeX have difficulty doing certain things with their resume, like having a resume with multiple columns. When you're in that mode - which you will be, constantly - when you need to figure out how to cut out one line to stop your resume from wrapping onto two pages, you're going to have a lot of trouble doing that when you can't see what you're doing.You will be much better off in a WYSIWYG editor, like Word, when you know what will pull you back up to one page.Styles that are difficultThere are certain styles or templates that are difficult for you to do in LaTeX either because you don't know how to do them or because they're just fundamentally difficult. Feel free to use mine - you decide to use LaTeX for resumes, here are some of the issues you'll face.Issues fitting content onto one pageThe biggest issue is that a resume is a precisely styled document where you must fit everything on one page. In fact, make your entire resume a giant 3-column table.Merge columns together as necessary (for example, in the sections with bullets about what you did).Make your table borders invisibleAnd bam! You'll have a nicely organized and easy to maintain resume with Microsoft Word.That said, please don't create your own resume template. ![]() Where people drive themselves crazy with Microsoft Word is when they try to fake a 2 or 3 column layout by hitting space a whole bunch of times. The key is to create a multi-column layout (one column for Company, one for Job Title, and one for Dates) and to do so using tables. I do not recommend writing a resume with LaTeX.Microsoft Word is pretty great for resumes if you know how to do it. I've reviewed a lot of resumes written with LaTeX and these people tend to have the most trouble with maintaining their resumes. ![]()
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