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Personally, I

  \documentclass[10pt,sans]{moderncv}

and then go from there. I’m leery of keeping my CV or details on it anywhere but a private git repo.

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LaTeX or TeX is a good way, especially if you're sending select people the PDFs directly, not putting it into some awful resume farm that tries to process it into some other form (and then someone possibly uses the badly-processed resumes as an excuse to cull, or resumes simply never show up in searches, or processed resumes look bad when someone sees it).

My current one, which I'm determined to keep to one page, starts like the below, in which I often have to tweak things like page margins and vertical gaps (until recently, it was 11pt, and I'd prefer 12pt). I also recently experimented with putting everything in a single chronology, including degrees, and dropping headings, with no separate skills section. I have no idea what's better, so I'm just reconciling the resume with personal style, which says one page, schools are a privilege rather than a bragging point, experience is more important than keyword spamming, and I don't want a keyword-searched job anyway.

  \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper]{article}
  \usepackage[letterpaper,margin=1in,top=0.5in,bottom=0.3in]{geometry}
  \usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  % \usepackage[none]{hyphenat}
  \pagestyle{empty}
  \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0em}

  \newcommand{\Section}[1]{%
    \vspace{12pt}
    \noindent{\large\textbf{\textsf{#1}}}}

  \newenvironment{HeaderDateDesc}[2]{%
    \vspace{6pt}
    \noindent\begin{tabular*}{\linewidth}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
      \textbf{\textsf{#1}} & \textsf{#2} \\
    \end{tabular*}
    {}}

  \newcommand{\DescBreak}[0]{%
    \vspace{4pt}\noindent}

  \newcommand{\Caps}[1]{%
    {\small #1}}

  % http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4302/prettiest-way-to-typeset-c-cplusplus
  \newcommand{\Cplusplus}{%
    C\nolinebreak\hspace{-.05em}\raisebox{.4ex}{\tiny\bf +}\nolinebreak\hspace{-.10em}\raisebox{.4ex}{\tiny\bf +}}

  \newcommand{\CandCplusplus}{C/\Cplusplus{}}

  \begin{document}

  \begin{center}
  {\textbf{\textsf{Jane Smith}}}\\
  {\small \textsf{Cambridge, Mass., \Caps{USA}}}\\
  \texttt{jsmith@example.com}
  \end{center}

  %\vspace{-16pt}
  %\Section{EXPERIENCE}

  \begin{HeaderDateDesc}{Principal Engineer, Example LLC}{2012--Present}
  ...

Could you post the rest of the tex file?

Just add these two lines to the end (and unindent the entire file 2 spaces that were added for HN markup), and it should work with LaTeX, and then you can just make more instances of the `HeaderDateDesc` begin-end part, for each experience/degree:

  \end{HeaderDateDesc}
  \end{document}

If your LaTeX install is missing some packages, you might need to Google for how to add them.

Mind if I ask why? Isn't it something that probably gets passed around once it's out?

It may contain personal information that could be used e.g. in social engineering.

Again, isn't this something that is publicly shared quite a bit?

should be privately shared, surely?

Your resume gets out there, a recruiter submits you somewhere, trying to get traction. You submit yourself there and now you're attached to a recruiter (and his expenses) that you shouldn't be.

My work life does not involve recruiters in any way.

Of course it does. You may not work with them, but the companies you apply to do. They will pick up your resume and share it. Anything on your resume should be considered public information.

If they do so without your consent they are breaking the law, I believe.

If you've ever put your resume up on a site like indeed, monster, etc. Then it's definitely been scooped up and put in a billion different job search engines.

But maybe you're fortunate enough to have avoided that mess.

If you publish something that isn't sharing it privately. If you provide your resume to a prospective employer or their agent (recruiters do NOT work for you) that is sharing it privately. If it becomes public as a result of you sharing it privately someone has been a jerk. IMHO beyond being a jerk their should be serious repercussions for publishing something without consent, inadvertently or deliberately. Something more than a minor business expense. Something like criminal charges against a person.

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