The CV on My Website Has Been Reproduced as a PDF

For my degree at King’s College London, I’ll be taking the 3^rd year out of study to engage in a paid work placement. It’s a regular Bachelor of Science degree, except shove in a year of work in the computing industry between the 2^nd and 3^rd years. It’s a Computer Science BSc with a Year in Industry. It’s exactly what it says on the tin.

Of course, with every job application, you need a CV, a self-written document of your best bits, to send to potential employers and entrust in them that you’re suitable for the role they’re looking for you to fill. And, with the actual application(s) for the year in industry placement fast approaching (I have to start applying by September), I need to start getting serious about making myself job-ready.

If you’ve been to my website before, you’ll now that I have indeed made a CV, and I have refined it a bit since I first made the site public, but most, if not all, employers will ask for a hard copy of it, and a live web page might suffice, but don’t bet your life on it (I beg of you)! And God forbid a potential employer somehow can’t open your CV without an active or decent internet connection! They’ll need a way to view it offline too!

So I had to reproduce my CV as a PDF. So I did.

You can view the PDF here.

When I originally wrote my CV for this site, before it went public, I did find some resources on writing a student CV, particularly this examples page on studentjob.co.uk, where I took one of the examples (namely the Student Leavers CV since I’ve never had paid work (I did 2 weeks of work experience in high school but that’s it)) and modelled my CV more or less after it. There’s also a PDF version of that example, and they have a CV builder which would’ve no doubt helped me a lot, but I opted to create my own document by myself, with the text and formatting I already used for the CV page in my site, using Scribus, a FOSS equivalent to applications like Adobe InDesign and, for better or worse, Microsoft Publisher. It certianly looks like it’s my first ever file made with Scribus. And, indeed, it is. But I am nevertheless very proud of it, and I am glad to have attained some experience with Scribus. Maybe I might add that to my CV in the future?

Whether I do that or not, though, I hope you, erm, like or enjoy my CV PDF? Well, I hope you at least appreciate it.

And, now, lest a web page won’t suffice, I’ll finally have an offline file of my CV to provide when applying for my work placement. Obviously.

Also, this isn’t relevant to the meat of this blog post, but I also updated the page descriptions (lovingly described as excerpts in the Liquid templating language used by Jekyll) of the first 3 blog posts on this site. Previously, the links to those posts, on this site’s homepage, showed the first sentence or paragraph of the respective post, but separate descriptions/excerpts have now been retroactively added to those 3 offending articles. Nevermind the fact that they’re all pretty much out of date by now, I made sure the new descriptions reflected the time(s) their respective blog posts were written. So that’s that. Obviously.