Agreed wholeheartedly on LaTeX. It also is a great entry point for a warm-up conversation at an interview if you format it professionally. I've been asked a number of times "how'd you do this?" and I'm not doing anything fancier than a two-column layout.

I think we hackers tend to underestimate the influence presentation has on perception. A LaTeX-formatted résumé adds a nice touch of professional style and a little boost of geek cred to academic résumé readers.

Or so I'd like to think…