I’m in the process of looking for a job again now that I am wrapping up graduate school. I’m looking forward to working again.
The first part of any job search is, of course, the creation of the resume, and since I am never very happy with the output of Microsoft Word, I decided to look in to creating a resume in LaTeX. I’ve used LaTeX enough to know that its best to start out with a template of some sort. Thankfully, there are quite a few available:
I decided on David Grant’s template. The only problem I ran in to was with the shading.sty file. He uses some features that are specific to postscript so if you attempt to use pdflatex instead of the tex -> dvi -> pdf route then you will get errors. The simple fix to this problem if you are using TeXShop on OS X is to switch the render under Typeset to Tex and Ghostscript instead of pdflatex.
The only major change I made to the template was to remove the bullet points from the list of degrees and the list of work experience. I didn’t feel they were necessary and detracted from the otherwise pleasing look of the design. They are easily removed from a standard LaTeX itemize list with the following code:
\begin{itemize}
\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{ }
\item
...
Here is an example of the final output: Resume PDF.
Also, if you are looking for something more along the lines of a CV then you may want to check out this one (via John).
I was looking for a way to add syntax highlighting to this site and came across SyntaxHighlighter. It supports just about every language I will ever want and looks nice as well.
Here is an example:
def hello_world(self):
print("Hello World!")
if __name__ == "__main__":
hello_world( )
I’ve been wanting to set up a website again for awhile, but I have been putting it off since I wanted to set it up under my anthonymcclosky.com domain with a custom theme, etc. I’ve started the project several times and never finished, but I will eventually. In the mean time, I want to start generating some content that will ultimately be migrated to my domain site.
Hopefully, with that goal in mind, I can actually move some of the content that has been floating around in my head for the last couple of years, on to the internet so I can actually get some feedback on things.
UPDATE: I moved this post over from my wordpress.com site to a site hosted on the anthonymcclosky.com domain. It is currently run on tumblr only because I have other things I want to work on right now other than build yet another blog template or engine. We will see how this goes.