Stop doing your CV in Word or LaTeX

The purpose of a CV is to summarize someone’s career, qualifications and education. As an engineer or developer, I strongly believe that the future of CVs lies within GitHub.

In fact, GitHub has realized this and they now allow you to create your own “profile page” by creating a repository with the same name as your GitHub username. E.g. https://github.com/DidierRLopes

In my humble opinion, this isn’t being talked enough. Previously, you needed a CV document to talk about your background, education, previous jobs and could rely on your GitHub…