Ask HN: What LaTeX resumé template do you use?

8 pointsZarathu4 comments

I'm looking to update my resumé, but I want it to look a little nicer.

I was thinking about compiling a PDF in Photoshop instead of writing it in LaTeX. What do you suggest?

Rails dev, here.

I write my resumé in LaTeX. I did not use any template. What I did was:

a) I collected a few sexy-looking resumés from various illustrious academics.

b) I selected the features I liked the most from each of those sample resumés.

c) I created my own LaTeX document from scratch, including the features I liked the most from the collection of samples. It takes some work, but you get exactly what you're looking for.

Is the LaTeX source posted somewhere ? Or at least the final output, so I can check out these sexy features ?

Any academic (professor, post-doc, grad student) has a CV or resumé in PDF or PS format in his / her webpage. Sources of inspiration galore.

Googling for LaTeX source code would work too. I use TeXnicCenter to write LaTeX files, and it probably comes with a resumé template already.

I personally prefer LaTeX to any other typesetting or word processing software and I use the Modern CV template to be found at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/modernc...

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