resume

🎓 All the reasons why you should or shouldn’t hire me.

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Résumé [Dark]
Curriculum Vitae [Dark]
Source Code [README]

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The resume has two targets:

• Resume, or “summary”, gives the highest-level summary of experience
• Curriculum Vitae (CV), or “course of life”, should be the entire course of experience, regardless of page length

This is a departure from the typical definition of CV used in academia, but it was the best terminology I could think of. CV is intended to be a supplement to the resume, not actually for standalone use.

Resume should be used as the catch-all term for {resume, cv, resume-dark, etc.}.

Design Philosophy

• Resume
  • objective be as skimmable as possible
  • 10 pt, 10 x 8.5 in (letterpaper)
  • one-two pages
• CV
  • objective list everything in a palatable format
  • 11 pt, 8.3 x 11.7 in (a4paper)
  • unlimited pages
  • with less horizontal space, all single lines of text should fit to column in CV
  • contains experimental changes

Formatting

• Standard formats:
  • dates DD/MM/YY
  • durations Yy Mm Dz
• .5 in-1 in margins across the entire resume
• Use rules for grouping experience, but minimize the use of lines throughout the rest of the resume
• Use font attributes to separate text, as follows:
  • bold for things you wish to callout (i.e., role and company)
  • normal for things that are relevant but aren’t the main point (i.e., team name)
  • italics for things that is might be required, but generally not relevant after first glance (industry, location)
  • verbatim for things that should not by ambigious (i.e., dates), or might need to align vertically via monospace font (i.e., dates)
• Links are encouraged but only if helpful. Rules are subjective.
  • This that are helpful when linked to: employers, colleges, locations (to maps), tools and jargon, accomplishments, products.
• Use of color should be discouraged unless it is an icon
• Use of images should be discouraged unless it is an icon
• Icons should be tasteful, as humans can process a an icon faster than text, but can get overwhelming
• Icons should follow a standardize (to reduce PDF space)
  • 256x256 is the preferred size for high-quality logos

Writing

• Separators (comma, semicolon, pipe) are going to appear naturally in the resume body, therefore they should be minimized as a separator in the headers. Prefer bold and italics.
• Every sentence should start with an “action” verb

About The Author

This my true resume, please be respectful. I am human.

Personally identifiable information is scrubbed in two ways: hard and soft. Hard scrubbing is clear, it’ll be censored with Xs or not present in the source code (see source README). Soft scrubbing uses stand-ins for true info, such as replacing a specific campus with a larger one. Some information might be aggregated for simplicity (i.e., roles not broken out by levels).

License, Copyright

I don’t know how licenses work. Feel free to fork freely.

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You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs

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