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.

  • bert@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    18 hours ago

    RenderCV would allow you to have separate yaml files for each position/locale, and generate PDFs for each of them with the same theme.

    Or the content in one file and generating multiple PDFs with different themes. It’s fairly flexible;

    https://github.com/rendercv/rendercv

    • onlinepersona@programming.devOPEnglish
      2·
      15 hours ago

      I finally went with this. Thanks.

      It doesn’t have a theme registry like JSON Resume, but at least it works. Finally my CVs are in git 🥰