Creating a LaTeX Resume
I’m in the process of looking for a job again now that I am wrapping up graduate school. I’m looking forward to working again.
The first part of any job search is, of course, the creation of the resume, and since I am never very happy with the output of Microsoft Word, I decided to look in to creating a resume in LaTeX. I’ve used LaTeX enough to know that its best to start out with a template of some sort. Thankfully, there are quite a few available:
I decided on David Grant’s template. The only problem I ran in to was with the shading.sty file. He uses some features that are specific to postscript so if you attempt to use pdflatex instead of the tex -> dvi -> pdf route then you will get errors. The simple fix to this problem if you are using TeXShop on OS X is to switch the render under Typeset to Tex and Ghostscript instead of pdflatex.
The only major change I made to the template was to remove the bullet points from the list of degrees and the list of work experience. I didn’t feel they were necessary and detracted from the otherwise pleasing look of the design. They are easily removed from a standard LaTeX itemize list with the following code:
\begin{itemize}
\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{ }
\item
...
Here is an example of the final output: Resume PDF.
Also, if you are looking for something more along the lines of a CV then you may want to check out this one (via John).
