LaTeX CV Template

45 Replies

Creating a CV or resume in LaTeX can be time-consuming, especially if you’re relatively new to it or only know the basic math commands (like 9 out of 10 mathematicians). Thus, I present to you the LaTeX CV template that I use, which is based on the template found on David Grant’s website. The template makes use of the framed, tocloft, and xcolor packages, which come pretty standard with most LaTeX distributions. I have also made a few (in my mind) improvements and fixes to the original template:

  • Added dot separators to the “Awards” list to make it easier to read.
  • Fixed a shading glitch when using tex2pdf.
  • Pretty-ified heading borders a bit.

Download:

45 thoughts on “LaTeX CV Template”

  1. Barb

    Hi Nathaniel

    I am a graduate student at Carleton University. I was Googling Latex CV templates and stumbled upon yours. Thanks for making it available.

    Barb

    Reply ↓
  3. Crahels

    Like Barb I googled for template and stumbled upon yours. Really nice.
    Excuse me to not put the license on my CV but I think it wouldn’t be a good idee ;).

    Thanks a lot,

    Crahels

    Reply ↓
  5. Daniel Hopwood

    iv just tried playing around with some of the parameters and changing the “\setlength{\outerbordwidth}{3pt}” value doesn’t seem to have an effect?

    Reply ↓
  6. Nathaniel

    @Daniel Hopwood – Ah! You’re quite right. I’ve updated the files so that they work correctly now, but here’s what the problem was:

    Line 45 looked like one of the following two things (depending on whether you downloaded the .tex of the template or of my CV):

    \parbox{\textwidth}{\setlength{\FrameSep}{\fboxsep}
    – OR –
    \parbox{\textwidth}{\setlength{\fboxsep}{\outerbordwidth}

    It should have looked like this:

    \parbox{\textwidth}{\setlength{\FrameSep}{\outerbordwidth}

    Sorry about that, and thanks for letting me know!

    Reply ↓
  13. Elizabeth

    Thanks for sharing this wonderful and useful template!

    I have one question: how can I justify the lines at both sides?? I am writing a couple of lines in one single item and LaTeX is not doing a good job.

    Reply ↓
  14. Guillaume

    Thanks a lot for this very useful template!

    One question: I have been trying to insert a photo ID at the top right of the CV. To do so, I slightly rearranged the info so that everything relevant on the top right (namely phone number and email) appeared on the top left instead. Now, I would like to insert a picture. To do so, I used the wrapfigure environment. So the beginning of my document is:

    \begin{document}
    \begin{wrapfigure}{r}{3cm}
    \includegraphics[scale=0.05]{Mypicture.png}
    \end{wrapfigure}
    \begin{tabular*}{7in}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}
    \textbf{\Large My Name}\\
    Research Analyst\\
    My Town, Ontario, Canada\\
    Myemail\\
    Myphonenumber\\
    \end{tabular*}
    \\

    This is the only change I made; the rest is as in your template.

    So my issue is that my picture is too low (i.e. it does not appear at the same level than “My Name”), and it messes up the categories below – thus, the subsections of “Education,” such as “Why Electrons Spins Rule,” are now completely on the left of the document instead of slightly on the right of the “My University” section. How could I insert my picture wihtout it messing up the whole thing?

    Thanks a lot!

    Reply ↓
  15. Rachel

    Thank you so much for this template! It really impressed me as compared to other LaTeX CV templates I’ve seen online.

    Reply ↓
  22. Boudewijn

    Hey Nathaniel,

    Thanx for the great template! But I just want to fine tune it a bit by editing this line:
    \setlength{\outerbordwidth}{3pt} % Width of border outside of title bars

    I want a thinner shadow line. But if i change the 3 in to 0.5 or in a bigger value (just for testing) nothing happens.

    Can you please point me in the wright direction?

    Cheers,

    Bo

    Reply ↓
  24. Gideon

    I write Curriculum Vitaes for a living and this template is absolutly terrible…. want a GOOD curriculum vitae then e-mail me

    Reply ↓
  31. soraya arzhan

    Thank you so much for this template!
    A nice and usefull template. all the best….
    regards
    soraya arzhan

    Reply ↓

  33. Pingback: CV | Nadine Amersi

  36. Samiur

    Thank you so much. I needed to make a CV on the fly and your template was the thing I was looking for you. Good luck with all your future endeavors.

    Reply ↓
  38. Mathew

    Hi,

    Thank you very much for the template.

    Could you please let me know how I can justify the publication section. Apparently it seems in your cv the publication lists are not justified.
    thx.

    Reply ↓

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *