I think it's ugly, and when I see it in use it seems unprofessional somehow. It's certainly non-standard, and if someone recognizes it, it says "This was done in TeX". I don't like advertising the process when the point is the end-product, so unless I was a big fan of the appearance of Computer Modern I wouldn't use it. If you prefer Helvetica or something, use that, but to just leave it in CM feels lazy - if you care about how your resume looks, shouldn't you care what font it's in?
If CM is your favorite thing in the world, then certainly go ahead and use it of course. I just don't like it.
It's strange how some people just don't like CM. I use times for papers for two reasons: (1) I can fit in more text than CM, which is important for page limits; and (2) some people I work with just can't stand CM.
I would stick with a serif font like times or the serif form of CM. I wouldn't put my resume in a sans serif font like Helvetica, but that's just me. (Headings and titles are good for sans serif; but long passages of text are more readable in serifed fonts, because it provides a sort of invisible baseline for your eye to follow.)
Once in my resume I advertized that I knew latex by using the \LaTeX\ command, which formats the special logo. A professor (at NEU) told me to remove it and said "we all know tex, we all know you know it".
"Member of the Purify development team, a memory corruption and leak detection tool ..." is malformed. Maybe something like "Member of (the) development team for Purify, a memory corruption ..."
Your name looks off center. It's more an effect of how the unit number "#1" hangs. Below it I would left-flush the address. And on the right I would have my email address and web-site (and or phone number).
For formatting I would put the place names (e.g. Boston, MA) in italics. I would put my job titles and degree names (e.g. PhD Computer Science, Research Assistant) in Small Caps. (Or, put the years in italics if that looks better. It makes it easier to "parse" it with a glance.)
If you want an industry style resume, I would add an "Experience" section that details what PLs you know and for how many years, along with tools like ddd, cvs, subversion, et cetera. If you want a more academic CV, list publications in a section of its own (might be a good idea either way).
The "1 page" rule died in hi-tech years ago. Probably everyone else will read the PDF version themselves and or print it out on a double-sided printer. Thus, go to two pages if you feel crammed.
List your GPAs.
Try bullets for the big paragraphs instead.
Instead of "took over development" maybe you could say "productized and redesigned".
If you are doing this in LaTeX, try for some living links:
Um, no offense, but why not make a version in HTML? The design of the PDF version is just plain text with very simple formatting and very standard fonts. Why not make an HTML version? I don't get it.
Plus, I don't get why you left out "Erotic Dancer" under "Employment."
I guess format depends what kind of job you are looking for. When I deal with recruiters for software engineering jobs they pretty much always want me to email them a Word document, or maybe plain text or a link to HTML. But most commonly Word. I've never seen TeX outside of an academic setting.
Also my time at Berkeley would have been 87-91, except that I dropped out for a while and didn't finish my degree till 97. So we were pretty close to being contemporary.
For industry jobs, don't be afraid to go to 2 pages. List languages and other technical skills, as mentioned above. List publications and/or conference presentations if you're trying for a fairly senior position (or an R&D oriented place like Mathworks); be sure to stress ability to work on team and ship product, for software firms. I don't think GPA will matter much if you have work experience, and if you have good references from industry folks.
Also, do make a Word version.
CM -- who cares. They're much more interested in the content than the fact that you used Tex and didn't change the default font.
I wasn't afraid to go to 2 pages; it took some padding to fill that one page. (Although if the second page is less than half full it's going to look kind of silly.) I thought about doing a list of languages and technologies that I've worked with, but I decided that a list of projects would have the same info with more context. But maybe it would still be good to summarize in one place. I mention my one non-thesis primary-author publication but I should probably list my other publications too.
I'm far less concerned with the formatting than I am the textual content.
First, put a summary at the top, summarizing who you are in 3-5 lines. Don't make the reader figure out how long you've been around, and what you're all about. See my blog entry here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5461
Second, unless your education is the most important thing about you for the jobs you're applying for, then don't make it the top thing on the page. I don't know what sort of job you're looking for, but in most cases the education is secondary to experience.
Are "Projects" different from "Employment"? If so, how? Perhaps "freelance projects" or "non-work projects" or "open source projects" or whatever's appropriate.
It's not clear really "who you are". A strong synopsis, like at http://petdance.com/resume/, will help that.
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If CM is your favorite thing in the world, then certainly go ahead and use it of course. I just don't like it.
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I would stick with a serif font like times or the serif form of CM. I wouldn't put my resume in a sans serif font like Helvetica, but that's just me. (Headings and titles are good for sans serif; but long passages of text are more readable in serifed fonts, because it provides a sort of invisible baseline for your eye to follow.)
Once in my resume I advertized that I knew latex by using the \LaTeX\ command, which formats the special logo. A professor (at NEU) told me to remove it and said "we all know tex, we all know you know it".
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"Member of the Purify development team, a memory corruption and leak detection tool ..." is malformed. Maybe something like "Member of (the) development team for Purify, a memory corruption ..."
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For formatting I would put the place names (e.g. Boston, MA) in italics. I would put my job titles and degree names (e.g. PhD Computer Science, Research Assistant) in Small Caps. (Or, put the years in italics if that looks better. It makes it easier to "parse" it with a glance.)
If you want an industry style resume, I would add an "Experience" section that details what PLs you know and for how many years, along with tools like ddd, cvs, subversion, et cetera. If you want a more academic CV, list publications in a section of its own (might be a good idea either way).
The "1 page" rule died in hi-tech years ago. Probably everyone else will read the PDF version themselves and or print it out on a double-sided printer. Thus, go to two pages if you feel crammed.
List your GPAs.
Try bullets for the big paragraphs instead.
Instead of "took over development" maybe you could say "productized and redesigned".
If you are doing this in LaTeX, try for some living links:
\usepackage[dvips, pdftitle={Your Title}, pdfauthor={You},
pdfpagelabels=true, linktocpage=true, pagebackref]{hyperref}
\renewcommand*{\backref}[1]{(Cited on page~#1.)}
\usepackage{url}
\newcommand{\mailto}[1]{\href{mailto:#1}{\url{#1}}}
(The hyperref package you don't need probably, but it would add some more PDF attributes to the generated document.)
If I were reading the resume, I might not visit the sites if I had to copy-paste (though, I might not read them all in the first place).
I like to say "Unit 1" instead of "Apt. 1" or "#1" because then it sounds like "hey, maybe this guy has a condo or something."
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Plus, I don't get why you left out "Erotic Dancer" under "Employment."
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Also my time at Berkeley would have been 87-91, except that I dropped out for a while and didn't finish my degree till 97. So we were pretty close to being contemporary.
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What was your major at Cal?
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I'm sure people will generally be okay with PDF though.
My major at Cal was Economics, and I also did the L&S Computer Science minor. Dropping out did me good, I was much more motivated when I went back.
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Also, do make a Word version.
CM -- who cares. They're much more interested in the content than the fact that you used Tex and didn't change the default font.
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First, put a summary at the top, summarizing who you are in 3-5 lines. Don't make the reader figure out how long you've been around, and what you're all about. See my blog entry here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5461
Second, unless your education is the most important thing about you for the jobs you're applying for, then don't make it the top thing on the page. I don't know what sort of job you're looking for, but in most cases the education is secondary to experience.
Are "Projects" different from "Employment"? If so, how? Perhaps "freelance projects" or "non-work projects" or "open source projects" or whatever's appropriate.
It's not clear really "who you are". A strong synopsis, like at http://petdance.com/resume/, will help that.