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dougo ([personal profile] dougo) wrote2004-09-03 04:26 am

My resumé

I finally got around to whipping up a resumé, for the first time in 12 years. Comments welcome.

[identity profile] jtemperance.livejournal.com 2004-09-04 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] dougo.livejournal.com 2004-09-04 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
There's absolutely no way I would work somewhere that preferred Word to PDF.

What was your major at Cal?

[identity profile] jtemperance.livejournal.com 2004-09-04 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Word is the most common format in industry among recruiters and HR people.
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.