It’s that time again and I’d like to make my life easier. I have multiple CVs for different positions and in different languages. Recruiters and companies want the CVs in PDF.
My current workflow is to sequentially edit the .odts (wording then layout because things move around depending on length), maybe the style, then save and export to PDF. That can take a while, so here I am, wondering if it can be sped up by simply editing a text file and generating CVs with certain themes.
Or what your workflow is. Maybe this isn’t worth automating…
Solution
Finally went with RenderCV (thank you @bert@sh.itjust.works), which also runs locally. YAML in, PDF, PNG, HTML, etc. out. It comes with 10 themes or so. Haven’t looked at what it take to create my own (I’m lazy).
Contender was JSON Resume, but the site is down and I tried it years ago but never got it to work properly.
Some might call it overkill or old fashioned, but my LaTeX CV versioned in mercurial as branches and hard linked clones has worked wonders for me for decades, now.
Same here (but versioned in git, and I only maintain one branch). I found a CV template I liked, and added my personal details. There are a ton out there. And the formatting doesn’t bunch around the same way a .odt file does.
Same. Well, not mercurial, but CV in latex. Works great. It really gives a ton of control over typesetting, so it is easy to make sure each page is filled completely.