README.md

My own LaTeX Résumé template

A LaTeX Résumé template designed for my own use, and released under the BSD-3-Clause license for everyone to enjoy.

Preview

Here is an example of how the final résumé looks.

(Configuration for this example can be found here)

How to use

These instructions assume that you are using a Unix based system (OSx, Linux, BSD, et cetera) and that you have a full TeX distribution set up (if you don't have one, I recommend TeX Live).

1. Open a terminal emulator.
2. Clone this repo (e.g. git clone https://github.com/kip93/resume.git my_cv).
3. Enter the new directory (e.g. cd my_cv).
4. Create a copy of example.tex (e.g. cp example.tex my_cv.tex).
5. Change the contents of the copied file to your hearts desire, using your text editor of choice.
6. Compile the résumé (e.g. pdflatex my_cv.tex).
7. Done, your résumé is now ready (e.g. my_cv.pdf).
8. You can always go back to step #5 to change anything you need (e.g. new academic studies).

How to customise

You might want to change stuff like colours or positioning of elements. In that case, you will need to edit the resume.cls file. Note that depending on what you want to change this will end up being much more advanced task than simply editing the .tex file described in the previous section.

I've tried to add documentation and comment the file wherever possible, but you'll need to have at least a good grasp on the LaTeX basics to be able to make any significant edits.

Dependencies

These are the dependencies for this project, as well as which versions they were used. Older versions might still work, but are untested.

• TeX Live >= 2021 (or other TeX distribution, with the packages defined beneath)
  • etoolbox >= 2.5k
  • pdfcomment >= 2.4a
  • ragged2e >= 3.0
  • textpos >= 1.10
  • TikZ >= 3.1.9a
  • xcolor >= 2.12
  • xstring >= 1.84
• Poppler utils >= 21.08 (only needed to create the example screenshot)
• GNU Make >= 4.3 (only to be able to use the Makefile to build the example)

Attributions

These are external resources used for creating this template.

• The placeholder profile picture is taken from here and is freely available through the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
• Many parts of this template were stolen from inspired by other great LaTeX templates, all of which are worth checking out:
  • posquit0's Awesome CV (CC BY-SA 4.0 license).
  • spagnuolocarmine's Twenty Seconds Curriculum Vitae (MIT license).
  • GiantMolecularCloud's Resume (CC BY-SA 4.0 license).