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submitted 6 months ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to c/askuk@feddit.uk

The important word here being "free".

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[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

If you don't mind messing with LaTeX, something like ModernCV on overleaf.com looks really nice

[-] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago
[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's an open source document preparation system. Essentially a typesetting language that produces good looking pdfs. It's the de facto standard for e.g. scientific publications.

It's not as simple as a "what you see is what you get" editor like Word, but a lot more powerful. It can be relatively simple to get started with by messing with a template on Overleaf.com, but it has quite a learning curve if you want to typeset documents from scratch.

[-] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

that's interesting thanks

[-] geichel@mastodon.ie 0 points 6 months ago
[-] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

Ooooh that looks fancy thanks

[-] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 6 months ago

Why do you even need a template?

We used to get given a fair few CV's across the various bars I've worked at, any CV that was created with a template went straight in the bin.

If that person was too lazy to create a fairly basic document, then what sort of worker would they be?

[-] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 points 6 months ago

I'm neurodiverse. It's really not easy for me

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