Introduction
I have recently ended my master thesis at the university and needed to have a nice looking CV to show future employers. I have been using LaTeX for all my work at the university and saw no reason to start using anything else to create my CV.
Unfortunately there is no official CV template for latex but a a friend of mine, Stine Kildegaard directed me in the direction of resume.cls file at http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/?p=54. This class is again based on the work found in http://www.biostat.harvard.edu/~paciorek/computingTips/computingTips.html. I have personally hacked this template a bit my self to get wide margins and better fit for a A4 paper.
Using the template
First download the file resume.cls. Once again this almost identical to the resume.cls from http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/?p=54 but with my page margin and A4 paper hacks.
The downloaded resume.cls should be placed in the same folder as the cv.tex file. Once this is done the only thing left is to include in the in main tex file:
\documentclass[margin,line,a4paper]{resume} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[english,danish]{babel} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{graphicx,wrapfig} \usepackage{url} \usepackage[colorlinks=true, a4paper=true, pdfstartview=FitV, linkcolor=blue, citecolor=blue, urlcolor=blue]{hyperref} \pdfcompresslevel=9 \begin{document} {\sc \Large Curriculum Vitae -- Thomas R. N. Jansson} \begin{resume} \vspace{0.5cm} \begin{wrapfigure}{R}{0.6\textwidth} \vspace{-1cm} \begin{center} \includegraphics[width=0.6\textwidth]{me} \end{center} \vspace{-1cm} \end{wrapfigure}
The class supports some special sections styles which are easy to use
\section{\mysidestyle Extracurricular activities}\vspace{1mm} \begin{description} \item[2008 July 21 $\rightarrow$ 1 August ] Attended the ESA sponsored summer school in Alpbach, Austria. The subject was "Sample Return from Moon, Asteroids and Comets". \item[2007 December $\rightarrow$ ] Editor at Kvant. Kvant is the members magazine for ``Dansk Fysisk Selskab'', ``Astronomisk Selskab'', ``Selskabet for Naturlærens Udbredelse'' and ``Dansk Geofysisk Forening''. 3000 copies four times a year. \end{description}
Eksample
Using the resume.cls described earlier I create my own CV and I am really happy with the result. For those interested in inspecting the full pdf: cv.pdf (1 mb)
Hi Thomas,
Nice post on the resume.cls. I’m definitely going to try that! I have tried the CurVe.cls (http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier/research/verna.06.practex.pdf), but I’m not sure which produces the best result.
Yours is by far the nicest looking CV template I have found. Thanks! If you’re interested, my resume now looks like this:
http://www.martinmagnusson.com/publications/magnusson-cv.pdf
I’m glad to hear!
hey. your cv looks awesome but i can’t get it to work! the image won’t stay aligned to the right. is there any chance you can post the source for main.tex?
I can give you this snippet containing the picture if that helps. I need to clean the whole tex file before I publish it, so for now, this will be it.
wow ok well, putting in your personal information section made it work. i think it’s cause the \begin{description} … \end{description} section was pushing the image down, maybe…. anyway. thanks thomas, you rock!
by the way, did you manage to get a job using this cv??
Glad to hear that you could use it.
I actually only had the opportunity to use the CV once since I was hired as a geophysicist for Schlumberger after I wrote this which is great.
What about the Latex’s moderncv package. Thats an awesome package and style.e
I haven’t tried it so I wouldn’t know. But maybe I will try it out – thanks for the input.
That’s a really good post! I wish more people could see this! keep up the good work! i’ll tweet this asap. thanks, Daniel
The best one I have found so far. I’m going to use it for my CV. Thanks
Hi, helped me a lot, though the “indent” seems to vary from section to section (at least in my output)…
Anywho:
Ubuntu rules!!!
Hay Thomas
When i use your little nice guide i have a problem. The text does not wrap around the image. Do you have any idea why this is happening? The wrapfig.sty i loaded..
Jonas: I do not have a answer from the top of my head, but maybe try another package instead of wrapfig, such as floatflt:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/floatflt.html
Isn’t there any error or warning messages in the latex shell?
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