Naw fuck that. LaTeX is the shit for resumes. Doesnt take very long at all especially if you start from a template. Its actually easier then word because word is super unintuitive when it comes to formatting spacially.
I used to have a flow where I wrote my experience in a master yaml file, then when I applied for a job I'd copy the yaml, delete everything non-relevant, and then feed it into pandoc. It worked great and I could just paste everything into those terrible "enter it twice" web forms. I even had a git repo with my job experience and I'd make a commit after major projects.
Last time I was job hunting it occurred to me I could just dump all that info into a Pages document and do the same process with instant WYSIWYG feedback, which I now do.
It's definitely a case of, me and probably 1% of hiring managers are super opinionated and will be massively biased towards it, and the other 99% who aren't nerds will just think I used a nice template
agreed that I don't think it makes you stand out particularly just by virtue of using latex, but it does look nice, typically much nicer than most word templates. And it is also much easier to get looking consistent and well organized imo.
