<story><title>Make a Resume in LaTeX</title><url>https://drshika.me/2022/04/15/latex-resumes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KMag</author><text>Back in school, I remember mentioning to a friend that &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t the Microsoft Research CS papers look a bit different?  Whenever I feel like a paper looks a bit off, I look up and see the authors have Microsoft email addresses.&amp;quot; and he pointed out to me that MS creates their papers in Word and pretty much all of the other papers I read were in LaTeX.&lt;p&gt;If your CV is generated from LaTeX -&amp;gt; PDF and all of the others are Word -&amp;gt; PDF, your CV will subtly stand out.  Depending on the reader, the subconscious&amp;#x2F;conscious connection with CS papers may be a plus or a minus.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to say if having my CV in LaTeX has actually helped me, but this is the reason I use LaTeX for my CV.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seanmcdirmid</author><text>I worked for MSR for ~7 years and all of the papers I worked on were in LaTeX, all the papers I saw from my colleagues were written in LaTeX as well. The only people who wrote papers in Word were from academic communities where that already happened often (e.g. lots of Word papers in HCI conferences; I was in the PL and OS communities where it was very rare to see papers written in Word).&lt;p&gt;But yes, a paper written in MS Word is glaring by how it handles kerning and hyphenation. You&amp;#x27;d be surprised how much products teams don&amp;#x27;t care about type setting (and Google Docs at Google where I work now is about the same).</text></comment>
<story><title>Make a Resume in LaTeX</title><url>https://drshika.me/2022/04/15/latex-resumes</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>KMag</author><text>Back in school, I remember mentioning to a friend that &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t the Microsoft Research CS papers look a bit different?  Whenever I feel like a paper looks a bit off, I look up and see the authors have Microsoft email addresses.&amp;quot; and he pointed out to me that MS creates their papers in Word and pretty much all of the other papers I read were in LaTeX.&lt;p&gt;If your CV is generated from LaTeX -&amp;gt; PDF and all of the others are Word -&amp;gt; PDF, your CV will subtly stand out.  Depending on the reader, the subconscious&amp;#x2F;conscious connection with CS papers may be a plus or a minus.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to say if having my CV in LaTeX has actually helped me, but this is the reason I use LaTeX for my CV.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SnooSux</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve handed my resume at career fairs and I twice they noticed and pointed out that it was LaTeX and it impressed them a little bit.&lt;p&gt;But I was a EE student so maybe it&amp;#x27;d be different in another field.</text></comment>