A Google Doc Spreadsheet template for a dynamic resume or CV

The printable view of my resume.

Here is the situation:
You have begun the tedious job search process. You are trying to spice up your resume or CV. The problem is, your past job experience is quite varied, as are the jobs you are applying for. What might be a great resume for one job will be highly out of place for another job.

So what do you do now? You can do what most people do, just copy your resume and tweak it until it works for the different job. You keep on doing this until you have so many different resumes that it starts getting difficult to keep track of.

A few years ago, I came up with a much better way of creating and maintaining a single master resume template in Google Docs that can be catered to any job and exported as a PDF file in a matter of seconds.

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