Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

Re:Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser by avip on Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:58PM (#36472525)

I wrote my last cv in markdown and named it my_name.cv

Disappointedly, lots of "resume uploaders" refused to accept my file, even as .txt.

Had to retreat back to pdf. Hard times we live in.

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Re:Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser by zyberzero on Sunday June 25, 2023 @05:25PM (#36472738)

I do something like that, but use pandoc to get whatever format they ask for. It's not always nice looking, but it's seldom me who is initiating the contact (ie they already have an interest in me, and they need a resume "for the process").

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Re:Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser by rckclmbr on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:20PM (#36473683)

I wrote mine in markdown and convert it to pdf (well, first html then pdf). It's worked well

   markdown resume.md > resume.tmp.html
   cat template/header.html resume.tmp.html template/footer.html > resume.html
   cp resume.html resume.tmp.html
   sed -i -e 's/"normal"/"pdf"/g' resume.tmp.html
   xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x16" wkhtmltopdf resume.tmp.html resume.pdf
   rm resume.tmp.html*

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Re:Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser by jskherman on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:24PM (#36474600)

Similar, I wrote mine[0] with Typst (alternative to LaTeX) and YAML. It's source is still plain text but I get a nice PDF with the beautiful typesetting reminiscent of LaTeX and an easier scripting language.

[0]: https://github.com/jskherman/cv.typ

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