Question:
By the way.. I have a friend here in University who has tried currvita. He
created his CV with it and went to the Career Services Centre to get some
feedback from professional people. They told him that the overall thing
(not the contents, but the layout etc) was not that good. Isn't Latex
supposed to create highly professional documents?
Answer:
-there are two possible answers to this:
1. that the careers people managed to detect that it wasn't produced
using word, and emitted their mindless reflex response to this fact.
2. that currvita isn't as good as its users make out.
on the whole, as a non-user of currvita, i would suggest that the
likely correct answer is 1.
but it's probably the case that currvita can be improved, for all
that; that's the way with free software.
-LaTeX doesn't guarentee that you create highly professional documents.
But my suspicion is that the Career Services people don't know what they
are talking about.
Also note that using currvita with nothing else might be a little bare.
The docs for currvita do say that the example is not the author's real CV
because for his real one he also makes use of other packages.
At a minimum you should make use of fancyhdr.
