Comments on: It’s resume time again

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:28:04 +0000

Oh, good catch. Thanks, David.

By: David Mackintosh

David Mackintosh — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 02:10:05 +0000

I’d double-check your dates at Gandalf, unless like the wizard himself your employment went backwards (which is a pretty subtle joke if you intended it so).

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:50:53 +0000

Tina, go right ahead, since I stole it from somebody else. I’d advise doing a “save link as” to get the raw XML and then grabbing the xsl stylesheet. If you save the page in your browser you’ll get the html version, and that’s much harder to edit.

By: Tina Marie

Tina Marie — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 03:55:49 +0000

That looks great! Mind if I borrow the format when my time comes?

By: Jed Davis

Jed Davis — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:13:15 +0000

For bonus points, write alternative stylesheets to target other formats, like TeX, or *roff, or RTF.

By: Beable

Beable — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:25:18 +0000

Well that makes more sense. I mean, that’s more of a hobby really. Not to mention you would need a new font to accomodate the acronym.

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:11:16 +0000

I also didn’t list the Cabal To Deprive Turmel Of His Right To Spam People With His Insane LETS Plans (CTDTOHRTSPWHILP).

By: Beable

Beable — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:06:02 +0000

But it doesn’t list ONAG! How can it be complete without the great Ottawa news conspiracy?

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:58:36 +0000

It prints well if you turn on the option to print background colors and images. But you’re right, I should probably stick to PDF when sending it to recruiters.

By: Stephen Harris

Stephen Harris — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:56:16 +0000

How well does the new resume print? “Print preview” in Mozilla on Linux didn’t do a good job. What looks good on a screen may not translate too well to paper, and that’s (unfortunately) what a number of recruiters want.