Junior’s developer dream CV. Pdf generation with Spring and Apache FOP. Episode 1.

You are a Junior Developer and you want to find your first job. How to draw the attention of others to your candidacy. You can find an idea to attract attention here.

Imagine that you are sending your CV to a job advertisement. It’s just a plain document with your experience, education and other boring stuff. So you don’t have that much experience, you have some education, your CV looks like 1000 other documents submitted for this position.

What if you include in your CV a link to the GitHub repository code, where that CV was generated?

One of my responsibilities as Team Leader of the Java team is recruitment interviews. I’m sure a link like this on your CV would catch my attention.

In this publication, we will go step by step through generating pdfs in java, then we will generate a ready-to-use CV template. You will be able to use existing code and use it for your own purposes.

Story plan:

1. Understanding phase

2. Planing phase

3. Coding phase