Hello !
I am desperately trying to write down a cv with Lyx ...
I have found a class cv.cls and a layout cv.layout (the one written by Jean Marc Lasgoutte) but I just can't configure Lyx to make them work !
I am using lyx 1.6 with windows XP...
Could you please, plesae help me (famous music) ?
Thank you !
Nolgan
LyX ⇒ curriculum vitae
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Re: curriculum vitae
Hi there,
Writing a resume is very personal. There are as many different ways of writing a resume as their are people on the planet.
Why don't you decide what yours whould look like, and then just go on with something like article class.
Cheers
Writing a resume is very personal. There are as many different ways of writing a resume as their are people on the planet.
Why don't you decide what yours whould look like, and then just go on with something like article class.
Cheers
Re: curriculum vitae
Hey !
Thanks' for answering !
Actualy, this is also an occasion for me to understand how to use those .cls files with Lyx
But I keep your relevant advice conserning my resume !
Thanks' for answering !
Actualy, this is also an occasion for me to understand how to use those .cls files with Lyx
But I keep your relevant advice conserning my resume !
Re: curriculum vitae
Hi there,
My advice, since I just found a job recently, is to keep your CV very very simple. It should be complete, but not longer than one page, forth and back.
Some people will tell you to adapt your CV for the job you are applying. I would say that if they are all similar (like in different banks or so), you don't really need to do so.
My advice is to have the following information:
Personal Information
Education
Prfessional Experience
Computer Knowledge (where you add with pleasure the LaTeX typesetting)
Miscellanous (Optional - I did not add this one to mine)
To create this document, I used the article document class. Every information section was made into a \section*. Otherwise, I used tabular environment, without borders, to give information in each section. By the way, not every tabular environment was the same.
The nice thing about LaTeX for this type of document is the end result layout. It does make a s**t load of a difference to other software. It really looks very neat, clean, and professional. Without having to much fancy stuff around it.
Lastly, keep the information relevant and pertinent. For example, which was given to my by a job coach, is to avoid stuff like a hotmail/gmail/yahoo e-mail address. It does not look terribly professional, eventhough your e-mail address is something like professional-job-blow@hotmail.com does not cut it. Another thing, try to imagine that the people reading your documents will spend more or less a minute for your CV and your cover letter. Therefore, to much info might discourage them right away. Get to the point and fast, without forgetting anything.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
My advice, since I just found a job recently, is to keep your CV very very simple. It should be complete, but not longer than one page, forth and back.
Some people will tell you to adapt your CV for the job you are applying. I would say that if they are all similar (like in different banks or so), you don't really need to do so.
My advice is to have the following information:
Personal Information
Education
Prfessional Experience
Computer Knowledge (where you add with pleasure the LaTeX typesetting)
Miscellanous (Optional - I did not add this one to mine)
To create this document, I used the article document class. Every information section was made into a \section*. Otherwise, I used tabular environment, without borders, to give information in each section. By the way, not every tabular environment was the same.
The nice thing about LaTeX for this type of document is the end result layout. It does make a s**t load of a difference to other software. It really looks very neat, clean, and professional. Without having to much fancy stuff around it.
Lastly, keep the information relevant and pertinent. For example, which was given to my by a job coach, is to avoid stuff like a hotmail/gmail/yahoo e-mail address. It does not look terribly professional, eventhough your e-mail address is something like professional-job-blow@hotmail.com does not cut it. Another thing, try to imagine that the people reading your documents will spend more or less a minute for your CV and your cover letter. Therefore, to much info might discourage them right away. Get to the point and fast, without forgetting anything.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
curriculum vitae
I don't know nothing about LyX but here:
http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex
you will find some examples of 'academic' CV made with (xe)latex.
Ignasi
http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex
you will find some examples of 'academic' CV made with (xe)latex.
Ignasi