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From: mac@tesla.UUCP (Michael Mc Namara)
Newsgroups: net.cse,net.jobs
Subject: An automatic resume formatter -- front end to nroff
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Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 01:47:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 29 01:47:52 1985
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Organization: Cornell University, Electrical Engineering Dept.
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       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
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