[ale] Resume

[Fulton Green]

Alright, now for the serious answer. :)

When I was laid off for the third time within a year's timespan back in
January, I went at first with two re'sume' file formats: HTML (actually
XHTML Basic) and ASCII text (generated from Lynx's rendering of my HTML
version). The semantic content of my re'sume', which you can currently see
from my website, is the result of a formatting technique I've been using
ever since a guidance counselor gave it a makeover back in 1990. The current
HTML look-and-feel was largely the result of an initial cut I performed with
Microsoft FrontPage Express, which I last used back in '96 (and I've been
hand-editing it with the aforementioned Vim text editor ever since).

In the past, I've generally been able to get away with simply sending over
my XHTML file, and recruiters would generally be happy to convert it
themselves into whatever format they required (i.e., M$ Word). 
Unfortunately, with the way the job market's been lately, I felt like I
wouldn't have that luxury. This was confirmed when I spent nearly an entire
day trying to work with an Aquent recruiter that was having "issues" with
both my XHTML format and some of the re'sume' content. After that
experience, I punted and simply imported the XHTML version into AbiWord,
made several changes to the formatting, and saved out as what AbiWord called
the "DOC" format. This actually turned out to be an RTF-formatted file with
an extra codepage spec, and it's fully readable my the M$ Word client.
Because of all the headaches I incurred with importing the XHTML file into
AbiWord, I quit maintaining my XHTML file.

If I ever wind up in this situation again (which will hopefully be far in
the future), I'd either look at the XML Re'sume' project
( http://XMLResume.SourceForge.net/ ), which is just basically a set of
XML/XSLT docs that assume you already have XML processing tools, or the
Apache Cocoon project ( http://XML.Apache.org/cougar/ ), which is a Java-
based dynamic publishing framework and can render out to HTML, PDF and even
RTF.

Hope this helps you all out.

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 01:39:20PM -0400, tom hawks wrote:
>  Does anyone know of a good resume kit for Linux?

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