Category: Meetings

The Nepalese community mentored CS50 students in Nepal create their very first resume for securing internships!

Our Nepalese community writes…

LibreOffice is a powerful open source office suite for many users worldwide. One of the major components is the word processing software, LibreOffice Writer, which is a highly effective tool for all levels of users.

We in the Nepalese community recently conducted a CV writing session titled “LibreOffice Writer – Creating Reusable CVs”, delivered by our Liaison for the Nepalese community, Mr Suraj Bhattarai. This session was one of the guest sessions for the first and second year CS50 students at IOE Purwanchal Campus, who went through the CS50 AI course this time. The purpose of the session was to help them articulate their learning from the CS50x and CS50 AI timeline into a presentable resume, together with their other strengths, to get their very first internship into the tech industry.

Suraj shared key insights when writing resume/CVs; he mentioned that the fact that fancy CVs or Canva templates are not yet a trend among hiring managers who happen to be millennials. What sells for a peak career or a first internship is a standard resume template. Apart from online options that generate downloadable CVs after the user simply fills out major details, the offline space has no significant help rather than making one in friendly software like LibreOffice Writer.

Suraj additionally shared that professional CVs/resumes for the purpose of very first internships are always simple, includes no crazy pictures, do not summarise in two or more columns, and mainly focus on experience and education – that’s it! This is equally true at every other level of careers. And for the very specific Applicant Tracking System (ATS), friendly resumes are always the best choice to go with!

He concluded that LibreOffice Writer is a powerful word processing software program that ships with many offline resume/CV templates. Also, more variations and template options could be downloaded from the official extensions site or this third-party one – the best one that resembles your very CV/resume preference. With this powerful word processing program, you can even create your very own template and publish it for millions of other LibreOffice Writer users online or offline.

In the final minutes of the session, Suraj hosted a CV/resume building competition using LibreOffice Writer. The 10 minute-challenge was hands-on for the students to experience LibreOffice Writer and get comfortable with it. A total of 38 students showcased their resumes/CVs following tips from the session. Among them, based on the writing style, formatting, and tone of language, the top three were awarded LibreOffice T-shirts as a gesture.

FOSDEM is one of the largest meetups for free and open source software projects, and it takes place every year in Brussels at the ULB Solbosch campus. This year it’ll be on 1 and 2 February – and, of course, LibreOffice and The Document Foundation will be there! Our stand will be in in K level 1, so come by and have a chat, grab some merchandise (stickers, pens, flyers, beer/coffee mats), and support us with a donation if you like 😊

We also have the LibreOffice devroom on the first day, with 20 talks and presentations about the software, technology and community.

See you there!