Your Resume Is Code

E. Dunham

2016-11-11

About Me

I DevOps Engineer at Mozilla ResearchI First ”real job”

I Open source nerd

I Oregonian (currently PDX)

About You

I Student?

I Professional in your field of choice?

I Other?

This Talk

I Stand-alone slides

I talks.edunham.net/seagl2016/resume

Your resume...

IS

I 1-2 pages

I 1st impression

I SEO tool

is NOT

I Everything you’ve done

I Personal details (USA)

I better than networking

A job hunt...

I NetworkI Where would you want to work?I Where would you not work again?I Why?

A job hunt...

I Share your goals and preferencesI Phrase complaints positively

I Understand referral bonusesI Solicit recruiters

I Interview practice makes perfect!

I Have resume ready

Your Resume’s Audiences

I You

I Robots

I HR

I Interviewers

Build a resume like code

I Identify users’ needs

I Interfaces to other systems

I Continuous delivery

Resume users’ needs

I YouI ”Where was I in 2010?”I ”What are all the technologies I used

there?”

Resume users’ needs

I RobotsI ”Does this document contain that

buzzword?”

Resume users’ needs

I HRI ”Is this person educated?”I ”Do they have the skills the job req

says?”I ”How can I get in contact with them?”

Resume users’ needs

I InterviewerI ”What has this person built?”I ”What kind of questions should I ask

them?”I ”What technical interests or experiences

do we have in common?”

Resume’s Interfaces

I Use buzzwords from job postings

I Reuse content in professional profiles

I Accept feedback

Contiuous Delivery

I Resume is living snapshot of career

I Resume is finished when career is

I Ship it!

Tools you use on code

I Backups!

I Version controlI Compile/render source into final product

that’s...I Aesthetically pleasingI Single fileI Looks right across platforms

I Peer review

Version Control

I Backups + searchable history + easilyswitch between versions

I Git, Hg, etcI GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, whatever

I Version Control ♥ text files

Text File → PDF

I LibreOffice document?I Hard to version

I HTML page?I Hard to render nice PDF consistently

I Write your own typesetting toolI Good experienceI Giant rabbit holeI Might never finish your resume

Text File → PDF

I Use LATEXI Useful skillI ProgrammingI It has ALL THE FEATURES1

1which you find by Googling a lot

History lesson

I 1969, Donald Knuth writes TAOCP

I 1976, 2nd edition, phototypesetting

I 1978, Knuth publishes TEX

I 1985, Leslie Lamport, LATEX

I currently LATEX 2ε

TEX& LATEX

I Turing-complete languageI Expand macros then execute tokens

I LATEX== ”TEX-based language”I http://www.tug.org/levels.html

Learning Most Languages

1. Write some code

2. Try to run it

3. Watch it crash

4. Google a lot

5. Make it ugly but working

6. Refine and refactor

LaTeX Gotchas

I Space separates tokens

I dollar sign enters/exits TEX math mode

I escaped parens for LATEX math mode

I Commands start with backslash

I Match your curly braces!

Principles of Resume

I Consistency

I Empathy for users’ needs

Let’s code!

Thanks!

I talks.edunham.net/seagl2016/resume

I github.com/edunham/resume

I edunham@edunham.net

I @qedunham

I edunham@mozilla.com