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#Simple & Elegant, Lightweight Responsive Resume (HTML+CSS)

Introduction

Not everyone is a front end developer/designer and even among us, few of us really enjoy laying out our resumés. Portfolios are exciting, and flashy. Resumés are not, nor should they be. Nor should they be PDF only.

While mobile phones and tablets can view PDFs, PDFs aren't accommodating of screen resolution. During my job hunt, I was tired of attaching PDFs to e-mails and annoyed with some job application systems that asked for an optional Resumés, only to allow .doc format. I do not own MS office and wonderfully formatted Resumés in Pages lose their luster after conversion. It was time to address this problem.

I developed a simple HTML/CSS resumé, with a simple grid system, with a few minor CSS3 effects. I can only testify that this is the resumé that landed me my current job. I have also been on the opposite end, reviewing résumés and while I am not a hiring manager but when asked to help sort through a stack of résumés while normal job duties, one quickly appreciates the clear and elegant résumés. These are tailored to be straight and to the point, suitable for developers,

Project Goals:

• Create a simple, ultra lightweight atheistically pleasing resumé template.
• Printable layout
• Pracitcal and Tasteful
• Keep the Markup roughly 200 lines of HTML
• Keep CSS lightweight and media queries minimal
• Stay Javascript free (The demo uses JQuery for demostration purposes)
• Provide several layouts (Currently this features two layouts based on experience)

Ideally this resumé will only require basic knowledge of HTML. Job hunting is time consuming / stressful enough as it is writing and proofing cover letters, searching for jobs, interviewing. This template shouldn't make this process worse.

A simple responsive designed resumé designed to work well on phones, tablets and desktops

What this isn't

This project will not be a Portfolio. There are alternatives on GitHub.

Demo

See a Live Demo