A resume template in TeX

I think there are way better resume templates in LaTeX around, like modernCV (<a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/moderncv" rel="nofollow">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/modernc...</a>), example here: <a href="http://www.jbkempf.com/documents/JBKempf-resume.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.jbkempf.com/documents/JBKempf-resume.pdf</a>; or CurrVita <a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/currvita" rel="nofollow">http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/currvit...</a>

I might as well take this opportunity to plug resume.rb (<a href="https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb</a>) which allows you to define your resume using a simple Ruby DSL and then render it to various outputs (currently supported are plain-text and PDF via LaTeX). Here's [0] an example ruby file which generates this [1] PDF.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/blob/master/example/my_resume.rb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/blob/master/example/my_r...</a> [1] <a href="https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/raw/master/example/my_resume.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mwylde/resume.rb/raw/master/example/my_re...</a>.

As the original creator of this resume template, I must say it looks rather nice! :-)<p>This is the .tex file I started with: <a href="http://matthewm.boedicker.org/doc/resume/resume.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://matthewm.boedicker.org/doc/resume/resume.pdf</a><p>then I took my Word resume (that had the shading, and some other things) and converted it into this: <a href="http://www.davidgrant.ca/latex_resume_template" rel="nofollow">http://www.davidgrant.ca/latex_resume_template</a><p>I made it because I loved my Word resume and I didn't like any of the LaTeX resumes out there on the Web. I also hated Word and loved using LaTeX.<p>It made it into CTAN as a .sty file thanks to the efforts of George Louthan: <a href="http://georgerloutha.nthefourth.com/projects/tucv" rel="nofollow">http://georgerloutha.nthefourth.com/projects/tucv</a> <a href="http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tucv" rel="nofollow">http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/tucv</a><p>Example using tucv package: <a href="http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/tucv/tucv_ex.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/tucv/tucv...</a><p>Personally, I hate using .sty or .cls for a resume. I think using a .tex file as it allows full customization/tweaking of the entire file, easily. A resume isn't something that can be easily generalized to a .sty or .cls IMO.

There's significantly better stuff out there (e.g., <a href="http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex" rel="nofollow">http://nitens.org/taraborelli/cvtex</a>). This one's neither clear nor consistent, and a tad ugly to boot.

Also, a clean HTML5 template: <a href="http://sampleresumetemplate.net/" rel="nofollow">http://sampleresumetemplate.net/</a><p>I just print to PDF from there, and attach the result.

For interesting templates and notes for CVs in LaTeX I can really recommend this site: <a href="http://www.cv-templates.info/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cv-templates.info/</a>

I really like this one:<p><a href="http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~paciorek/computingTips/Latex_template_creating_CV_.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~paciorek/computingTips/Latex...</a>

I used to keep my resume in TeX. I don't anymore. I just use a simple format in Word. PDF is fair, but most of the IT job market infrastructure is based around dealing with word docs &#38; electronic copies so frankly the appearance isn't that important (other than basic legibility). I found it much easier to get work once I bit the bullet and move my resume into a word doc.

This is substantially similar to my resume from circa 2005, and the template I was using was already old <i>then.</i><p>I think basically all latex users have been passing around variants of the same GPL resume template for ten or fifteen years now. :)

I used to spend hours working on my resume in LaTeX, under the belief that it would buy me geek cred from employers who could recognize the typesetting. Not one person ever noticed it and the hassle from recruiters that wanted a Word doc finally motivated me to switch to Word. Sad but that's the way it goes.

Two quick facts, as a hiring manager (your mileage may vary, but this is how I think):<p>1) I can usually tell that you wrote your resume in TeX<p>2) I then classify you immediately in the "advanced geeks" category, with a "probably hard to work with because is picky" flag...

We've switched over to LinkedIn's job application feature which just PDFs up your LinkedIn profile and sends it to us when they click on apply on our website. I don't believe there is even a place to attach a normal résumé anymore.

Props to you for using LaTeX! I too trod the road to CV perfection, from the early unwashed days of MS Word (bah!), to HTML (blah!), LaTeX (shucks!), XML (arrgh!) and finally to ReST (hooray!).<p>Sadly no one cared; recruiters wanted MS Word or RTF and employers valued beauty in phrasing over beauty of typesetting and so I hired a CV writer and stuck to Open Office / Google Docs.<p>Hope it works out for you though!

I think boxes are extra when all you need is elegant typography.

I currently use scribtex.com for all my LaTex needs because it <i>already has all the libraries loaded properly.</i> This was a gigantic pain in the ass for me.<p>Having software set up properly is IMO a good case for a web app; with scribtex, all you need is a text editor to produce good pdfs.<p>I highly recommend it.<p>(Please keep it in business.)

i've looked at most, if not all, of the CVs &#38; templates referred to on this page, but must say i like my TEX resume better. :)<p><a href="https://github.com/cies/resume" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/cies/resume</a><p>i like typesetting, so naturally did my best. it uses the pagella font that is often used for books (with 'low case numbers' -- i love those). except the h-lines and some bullets everything is made of text. uses hyper-refs where applicable, in dark blue so 'print safe'. everything is open source, how to compile this on ubuntu is in the header comment of the tex file.<p>it is originally based on a file found on toofishes' blog: <a href="http://www.toofishes.net/blog/tags/latex" rel="nofollow">http://www.toofishes.net/blog/tags/latex</a><p>please let me know what you think!

Seems too cumbersome. Plus, mixing the resume information with the formatting looks like a maintenance nightmare.<p>That's why I store my resume as XML (model) and transform it into HTML (view) using XSLT (controller). The XML file includes my <i>complete</i> resume, and I use XSLT to generate different resumes that each display a subset of that information. It's as simple as <i>myname.com/resume/dev</i> or <i>myname.com/resume/dba</i>. The resulting HTML also copy and pastes well into Notepad or textarea form fields. I can also take this same XML data and convert it to PDF using a server-side PDF library.<p>If I ever get around to updating the code behind it, I'll convert it to HTML5/canvas.

I like mine a little better: <a href="https://github.com/jimktrains/Resume/raw/master/Jim_Keener_resume.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jimktrains/Resume/raw/master/Jim_Keener_r...</a>

My resume has been in HTML since the late 90s. Nobody seems to be asking for .doc anymore, and I've never seen anyone ask for another format unless they were asking for plain text.

I've been happy using Miklos Csurus resume class from <a href="http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~csuros/latex.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~csuros/latex.html</a><p>You can see a sample TeX file at <a href="http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.tex" rel="nofollow">http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.tex</a> and the PDF output at <a href="http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://polibyte.com/files/resume-20110908.pdf</a>

I might as well throw mine in the ring as well: <a href="https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume</a> (Example: <a href="https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume/blob/master/Chris_Metcalf_Resume.pdf?raw=true" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/chrismetcalf/resume/blob/master/Chris_Met...</a>).<p>I like the modernCV format a lot, I'll likely try to crib some features from there.

Sneaky way to get your resume on HN. :)

This is mine (<a href="http://aarvay.in/resume.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://aarvay.in/resume.pdf</a>) and I love it. You can fork the same if you like it from (<a href="https://github.com/aarvay/resume/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/aarvay/resume/</a>)

Thought this might be a good place to get some feedback on my own template: <a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13800588/Anonymous.August.2011.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13800588/Anonymous.August.2011.pdf</a><p>Will share the .tex if people want it.

i did something similar[1] as an excuse to try out nanoc[2].<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/sxtxixtxcxh/resume" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sxtxixtxcxh/resume</a> [2] <a href="http://nanoc.stoneship.org/" rel="nofollow">http://nanoc.stoneship.org/</a>

Do you know a way to generate CVs in europass[1] format?<p>[1] <a href="http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/vernav/Europass+Documents/Europass+CV.csp" rel="nofollow">http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/europass/home/vernav/Europ...</a>

I can upload an HTML template that I created, if anyone is interested. You can post it on a webpage, or you can use your browser to print to PDF and send it that way.

I made a LaTex resume a while back too: <a href="https://github.com/treyhunner/resume" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/treyhunner/resume</a>

Perhaps it's just the font, but this and most other Latex resumes scream "I was made with Latex!" For some jobs, that might buy some geek cred, but I wanted to make mine less Latexy. What do you think? (Disclaimer: content is crappy and outdated)<p><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/712576/thomas_shaddox_resume.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/712576/thomas_shaddox_resume.pdf</a>

Just use indeed for resumes.<p><a href="http://www.indeed.com/resumes" rel="nofollow">http://www.indeed.com/resumes</a>

It should be <i>TeX</i>nically feasible to do something of this caliber: <a href="http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/creative-resume-designs/" rel="nofollow">http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/creative-resume-de...</a><p>And yet, all the TeX resume/CV examples I ever see are fairly boring.

I made some search to find TeX resumes in Github 4 months ago, to renew my resume.<p>Here you can download my archive: <a href="http://uploading.com/files/3c95c534/resumes.tar.gz" rel="nofollow">http://uploading.com/files/3c95c534/resumes.tar.gz</a><p>It contains pdf and tex versions of the resumes of following people; elizabrock, mikepark, pavpanchekha, rlipman, rpetti, stuhood<p>I hope that this archive may help you guys.

once done with your resume/cv, do us a favor and try it with our resume analyzer - it'll tell you a lot of things about the quality/content of your resume (and other things you might have missed). it's free, and automated.<p><a href="http://www.twentypeople.com/public/u/resumeanalyzer" rel="nofollow">http://www.twentypeople.com/public/u/resumeanalyzer</a>

This is awesome! We run a resume grading website (<a href="http://rezscore.com" rel="nofollow">http://rezscore.com</a> ) and would love to implement this, could you help us? Email jen /AT/ rezscore \DOT\ com