mac@tesla.UUCP (Michael Mc Namara) (04/29/85)
Recently, at the request of Cornell's chapter of the IEEE, I wrote an automatic resume formatting program. They produce a book once a year con- taining the resumes of all the soon-to-be graduating Electrical Engineering students. Needless to say, companies eagerly await each edition of this document. Anyway, they needed a simple way to get the 200 or so students to come up with a resume in a format they could easily incorporate into their book. This year's book has resumes in about 150 different styles, on as many different typewriters. So I wrote a program that assume the user knows nothing about unix or [tn]roff, but simply has access to this program. They are prompted for name, address, education, work experience, and some optional fields like citizenship, social security number, activities, et cetera. Then the program takes their input, and wraps around it some [nt]roff macros I wrote that allow typical resume constructs, and sends the resume off to either our laser printer, or a spinwriter. It is a particularly painless way to format that leap to a new job, or to the world of employment in general. I just gave them the program to test, and after they're happy with it, I'd be glad to mail it to anyone interested. If I get a lot of requests, I'll send it to net.sources. (maybe even net.sources.games :-) ) mac@tesla ...!cornell!tesla!mac Michael Mc Namara ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want to go where the climate suits my clothes | My employer has no opinions -----------------------------------------------------------------------------