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How to Write a Software Engineer Resume

Cole Turner on August 06, 2020

Your resume is the key to the door for your next job. If you're looking to land that next role, here are the awesome tips you need to know to make ...
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Lorna Watson

Great post, interesting read! As far as CV templates go I’d absolutely recommend VisualCV

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Cole Turner

Would you be open to sharing more? I've never heard of VisualCV before.

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Lorna Watson

Of course! visualcv.com/ is a CV template builder, really simple to use and has both free and paid for plans. I spent a lot of time a while ago looking for the best template builder and found this to be the best, for me anyway. There are 2 editors - basic and visual, able to change template, download as PDF etc. Should check it out! 😀
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Cole Turner • Edited

That does look very clean and crisp. Have you run the output through an ATS validator to see how it affects the parsing? I'm curious to see if it passes the robots.

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Lorna Watson

Ah good point! I haven't. Would be interesting to see!

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Glen Bradley

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Nikolay Nikolov

You should never use .doc format !!!!!!

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Cole Turner

What are some of your concerns about .doc format?

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Nikolay Nikolov

The formatting could be broken via different viewers. Not everybody is using MS Office and the doc could look super ugly and unreadable. Despite that the doc could be easy modified even by mistake. For this reasons PDF is created.

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Cole Turner

It depends. It doesn’t hurt to have both a word doc and a PDF, and transmit them both over email.

However based on the evidence, using. .doc is preferred for transmitting a resume through online forms.

When I switched from a PDF to a doc, I got more interviews because the ATS robots could understand it better, and that is the point that is made in the article.

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Nikolay Nikolov

Maybe it depends on the ATS.