I genuinely have nothing to put on a CV besides (lack of) education.
No projects, no hobbies, no experience, no* nothing.
*"no nothing" sounds like negation of false
But I also guess it can’t really be that empty.

I found posting for a job I could perhaps do**, though unfortunately they want a CV.

**The posting mentions this

Don’t worry - we are not looking for experience, we are looking for a quality colleague who is eager to learn and grow - both at work and personally. What is important to us is that you have determination and responsibility. We will teach you everything you need - from the technical side to communication with customers.

Sounds good as I have no experience, but… CV.

Anyway, I am also questioning what to make it in. Originally I though of using LaTeX, but that needs more time. I only really tried to use it once, and that was pain. So many packages, what do they do, how do I use them. Like learning to swim by jumping into a lake.

LibreOffice Write/Draw is probably what I’ll have to go with. Draw lets me easily put whatever I want wherever I want. And of course, export that to PDF.

Lastly, I need sleep now. It is unfortunate, as I have most energy and will to do things at night. However, this also includes crazy thoughts and ideas, such as making a second, crazy version of my CV.
Although extremely unprofessional, outdated HTML 3.2, old non-standard elements like blink and marquee, animated bullet points, animated tiled background, and “under construction” GIF in the experience section would be truly memorable.
Of course, I couldn’t just send Tar-ed page source. But since it would be a single-page “document”, all the GIFs could be withing the HTML file encoded in base 64.
Not that I plan to do it, but I personally like the vision in my mind.

Thank you for your attention.

  • trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    12·
    20 hours ago

    Gotta love the dichotomy of “I have no skills” to “Anyways, I considered doing this in LaTeX or plain HTML”.
    Mate, even you just understanding what LaTeX and HTML do, that requires so many skills which are not at all par for the course.

    And I would actually take that quote from their posting at face value. I talked to the main recruiter at our company before and he told me that for entry level positions, the only thing they really care about is why the person believes this to be a good job for them. Have they done something similar as part of a hobby before and enjoyed it, for example?

    Because ultimately, you will need to be taught a ton of things, no matter what your grades looked like or how many overachiever prizes you can list. And if you’re likely to quit after a few months, because it’s not the right job for you, then the company invested a lot of time teaching you, which isn’t going to pay off.

    So, yeah, whatever made you consider this job posting, I would try to describe. Most of that will be in the cover letter, but if you’ve got specific skills or hobbies that you consider relevant, then throw those onto the CV.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      3·
      11 hours ago

      Mate, even you just understanding what LaTeX and HTML do

      With HTML, I only meant something like basic 90s/early 2000s websites. That doesn’t really need much. For example, toastytech.com. Using tables for layout is probably not done anymore.
      When it comes to LaTeX, we just had to use it for an assignment in school, so that’s where I came in contact with it.
      And even that’s something I struggled with. The entire page was supposed to be a colored table. I’ve used tabularx, but it kept being slightly off the page. For some reason, wrapping it between center fixed it, but I don’t know what I did wrong there.

      It would have probably been easier if I did it in Overleaf (online LaTeX editing platform).
      Instead, me being me, I was doing it last-minute. On a train. Full train, so I couldn’t even sit down to use a laptop, as such I had to use my phone. There are apparently some issues with texlive on Termux, so I didn’t run it locally.
      Instead I had to SSH to my mini PC over Tailscale, edit the document using Vim, compile with pdflatex, copy the PDF to my phone using scp, view it, delete, browse around StackExchange (where I found someone mention the center workaround), and repeat.

      On a phone, while standing in a moving train. Quite the user experience.

      • saimen@feddit.org
        4·
        12 hours ago

        You have to understand that probably 99% of people wouldn’t be able to do that or even understand what you are talking about while at the same time there are a lot of businesses needing people to do stuff like that. Formal education is good and important but most of the time what you end up doing in your job you learn while doing the job.