A LaTeX German CV and US Resume class and template.
When I was preparing my resume for internship applications to positions in the United States while simultaneously creating CVs for internship applications for positions in Germany, I became quite frustrated at how much work it took to update each resume and/or CV and the issues associated with combining appropriately-formatted cover letters with those documents. I was also disappointed with templates that were easily found online.
This project represents what I came up with to solve my own resume/CV requirements, and I hope others can take advantage of it for the same purpose.
The German cover letter adheres to the DIN 5008 guidelines.
As this project is still in beta, there is no intention to make future release backwards compatible.
For simplicity's sake, instructions on how to use this repository are included in the project's wiki.
Plainly stated: Anyone is free to use and modify this project to create their own resume, CV, and/or cover letter. Any other use or modification of this project is permissable as long as that use falls within this project's current license.
This project is created under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) version 1.3c. Under that license, this project may be free used and modified as long as all derivative works adhere to the same or an update LPPL license. Details of the licence can be found in the license file.
Files not explicitely listed in the manifest file are not considered part of the project and are not free to be shared unless that permission is derived elsewhere, such as an image being a part of the public domain.
The following updates are currently planned for the project:
- Support for a two-column resume style.
- Lower-level TeX class definitions.
- Additional language support.
- Simplified LaTeX-based syntax for document creation, including
- Use of
\section{}for CV/resume sections. - Eliminating the need for a
\cvpara{}environment. - Use of an environment for making cover letters.
- Use of
If you have feature requests or project recommendations, please feel free to reach out and ask. Also feel free to reach out if you would like to contribute.
This project borrowed ideas from and was inspired by the following CV classes/templates, however this project was written from scratch.