Résumés with Markdown or Org-mode

Continuing with our theme of using Emacs for writing rather than coding, Mark Szepieniec and Christophe-Marie Duquesne have a couple of nice posts about writing your résumé in Markdown and then exporting it to the desired format with Pandoc.

There’s a lot to be said for this strategy. You can have a single master copy for your résumé and use it to generate whatever format is needed. The same master copy can generate a nice HTML for your Web site, a PDF for an employer that prefers a traditional format, or a Word document for employment agencies, which generally prefer that format. If you try to keep separate copies for each of these different formats, errors are sure to creep in and some formats will have the latest updates missing.

Both these posts discuss using Markdown for your master copy but exactly the same strategy works for Org-mode. You might not even need Pandoc with Org-mode because of Org’s powerful export engine. Either way, I think the Markdown/Org-mode method is the winning strategy. You have a single, portable source for your resume that can be exported to just about any desired format. One thing for sure, it’s a lot better than using Word or one of its demonic spawn. It’s also better, I submit, than writing it in TeX or LaTeX for many of the same reasons.

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