Org-CV an Org export backend for CV
I’m again in this time of my life where I’m looking for a new long term
project to work on. Because optimization is my favorite way of
procrastination, instead of just making a Curriculum Vitae (CV) for job
applications, I decided that I need to implement an org-mode export
backend. This backend will let me keep my CV in org-mode
and then export
it to \(\LaTeX\) or markdown for my website. This exporter now lives in
gitlab as org-cv
and the documentation is here
.
I work with org-mode, because it is amazing, because it already provides exporters and its syntax allows to store information beyond the plain prose. That is by the way the key, an item inside a CV includes information beyond what I have done, but where? when? and with whom? Such information can be encoded in a property drawer , and the exporter’s job is to understand them so that they can be displayed later on in a pertinent location. With this in mind I’ll describe a job entry like this:
1* Employement
2** One job
3:PROPERTIES:
4:CV_ENV: cventry
5:FROM: <2014-09-01>
6:TO: <2017-12-07>
7:LOCATION: a city, a country
8:EMPLOYER: The employer
9:END:
10- I think about awesome stuff to do.
11- I do the awesome stuff I think of.
12- I write about awesome stuff I do.
I use org-mode's
tree hierarchy: a heading about Employement
and then
the subtrees are the job positions taken. The :CV_ENV: cventry
is the
key-value
pair that makes this the special CV item, the other ones are
self explanatory and provide the context information of the
entry/job. Finally, I can use org-mode to write about the work done.
In a CV, its header includes a bunch of contact information, thus many new keywords are recognized by the exported to this purpose. The example below shows their availability and use.
1#+TITLE: My dream job
2#+AUTHOR: John Doe
3
4#+ADDRESS: My Awesome palace
5#+ADDRESS: Fantastic city -- Planet Earth
6#+MOBILE: (+9) 87654321
7#+HOMEPAGE: example.com
8#+GITHUB: John-D
9#+GITLAB: John-D
10#+LINKEDIN: John-Doe
11#+PHOTO: smile.png
After you have written your information you can rely on my package org-cv
to generate the \(\LaTeX\) file for your pdf. I currently support
moderncv
and altacv
templates. I also wrote an extension for ox-hugo
so that I can prepare a markdown file, which HUGO will understand to
generate my Online CV which.
Dr. Óscar Nájera
Software archeologist – Recovering Physicist – Dancer
As scientist I studied the physics of the very small quantum world. As a computer hacker I distill code. Software is eating the world, and less code means less errors, less problems. Millions of lines of legacy code demand attention and have to be understood and simplified for future reliable operation.