LaTeX Resume

A (hopefully) simple and easy-to-use resume builder using the LaTeX compiler engine; built without the use of a complex .cls file.

'Install'

In terms of operating systems, this won't work on Windows. Sorry. Works on macOS and Linux just fine, though, so if you're on Windows, I would recommend getting WSL installed so that you can compile with ease.

(Unless you want to go the hard route; you do you bud.)

If you don't have LaTeX installed, you should probably install it; otherwise, I don't think you're going to get much use out of this. In terms of a TeX engine, TinyTeX has a pretty good balance of minimalism and everything you need to get started. See the project here.

In other TeX requirements, you'll need the following packages:

• fontawesome5
• standalone
• import
• enumitem
• svn-prov

With regards to other utilities, pdftk is required in order to concatenate the resulting generated pdf files together. make is used to help execute the compiling commands. You can likely grab these from your package manager. (On macOS, if you have Homebrew installed, grab the pdftk-java version.)

This works as a base LaTeX project to help you get started. Just clone the repository and edit what you need. Just make sure that the default text is removed before you submit anything for real.

How it's structured

Headers

Each page should have your name across the top; the first page of the cover letter and resume should also have your contact info. These are provided with the name.tex and contact.tex files located in the sections folder. You can edit those to your needs.

Sections

Things such as previous jobs, projects you've worked on, etc. are typically divided into sections. There are a few pre-defined pages that you can use (located in the sections directory), such as projects, cover_letter, education, etc. that seem to be pretty common amongst typical resumes. If you need more than that, however, activities.tex is blank, so you can copy that to your heart's content.

How do I make the PDF?

Just call make. It auto generates three PDF files: a resume, a cover letter, and a combined file. (All three are generated to PDF files since that seems to be the most popular document format.)

Shoud you need to just make one or the other, you can call make resume or make cover for just one of those documents. The combined document should update as well.

Make a mistake? Call make clean to erase all compiled documents and start from scratch.

Just need to finalize the PDF files? Call make finish and it should just generate the finalized PDF files without too much headache.

How do I use LaTeX?

There's lots of great resouces that you can use to get you started. Overleaf is a pretty good resource for just the basics of getting started. Honestly, though, I think you can just start overwriting some of the files and seeing what the result is. Just make sure to compile the document with make when you're finished.