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What's the best free CV template site? (reddthat.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/askuk@feddit.uk
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The important word here being "free".

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If you don't mind messing with LaTeX, something like ModernCV on overleaf.com looks really nice

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Nice one! What is LaTeX?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    It's an open source document preparation system. Essentially a typesetting language that produces good looking pdfs. It's the de facto standard for e.g. scientific publications.

    It's not as simple as a "what you see is what you get" editor like Word, but a lot more powerful. It can be relatively simple to get started with by messing with a template on Overleaf.com, but it has quite a learning curve if you want to typeset documents from scratch.

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    • [–] -2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Why do you even need a template?

    We used to get given a fair few CV's across the various bars I've worked at, any CV that was created with a template went straight in the bin.

    If that person was too lazy to create a fairly basic document, then what sort of worker would they be?

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  • [+] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    It was based on layout, pastel colours, font etc, basically any CV template found in Word.

    Another example would be that one of the places made us throw out all the CV's dropped off by lasses straight in the bin because the supervisor didn't want any "competition". She was a bit of a cunt.

    Another place automatically threw out any CVs that had pictures of the applicant on.

    So that's an idea of what sort of management we had at these places.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I'm neurodiverse. It's really not easy for me

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