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Ask HN: It's 2016, what software/tools do you use to write your resume?
5 points by edge17 on April 17, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
Just wondering if anything's changed in the last 10-15 years in terms of software used specifically for the purpose of writing a resume? Or is MS Word still the de facto standard tool?


Why pay for MS Office when you can get LibreOffice for free? (It can even produce Word-readable files.)

I'm not sure why I'd need specialized software for editing a resume. It's a short and simple document that any word processor can easily handle.


Agreed, LibreOffice is free and it handles some of the MS-Office documents formats as well in case your potential employer needs a Word document or something.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/

Even has torrents to download it via BitTorrent. I hope other FOSS apps use Torrents to download them, it is a better way to download and not have Internet timeout errors cancel your download.


JSON Resume: https://jsonresume.org/

The project isn't as active as it used to be though.


Latex with moderncv


latex -> pdf




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