You Need A Resume Tomorrow

edunham

LUG Lightning Talks

2/17/2015

Wait, What? Why?

• Do you want a cool job?
• Are you nervous about interviews?
• Were you nervous about coming to LUG the first time?
• LUG isn't that scary any more.
• Same effect works on interviews.
• Take your resume to the career fair
• Either nothing will happen or you'll get interview practice

LaTeX

• Preamble:

  \documentclass[11pt]{article}
  

• Packages:

  \usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
  \usepackage[compact]{titlesec}
  \usepackage[cm]{fullpage}
  

• Paragraphs:

  \begin{document}
  ...
  \end{document}
  

What To Say?

• Education and Experiences

  • Where, Who, When, What
  • Strong Verbs
  • Quantify Everything

• Optional: Skills, Objective

• Why does the reader care?

Hazards

• Inconsistent verb tense
• Skills claims without related experience
• Unclear why an item is there
• Too much text
• Unflattering layout

Say It Beautifully

WHITESPACE, WHITESPACE, WHITESPACE.

• Text Spacing:

  \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
  \setlength{\itemsep}{1pt}
  \setlength{\parskip}{1.5pt}
  \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
  
  \bigskip
  \smallskip
  

• Alignment:

  \hfill
  \centerline{{\LARGE Your Name}}
  

Macros

\newcommand{\heading}[1]{
    \section*{\uline{\hfill #1}}}
\newcommand{\experience}[3]{
    \item[{#1}, \emph{#2}]
    \hfill #3 }

\heading{Employment}
\begin{description}
\experience{Awesome Company}
           {My Job Title}
           {date - present}

    I did a thing and improved the buzzword by 40\%.
\end{description}

It's Pretty

Out Of Time

• pdflatex resume.tex && evince resume.pdf
• more on macros
• more on what to say
• Slides at talks.edunham.net/OSULUG/resume