A LaTeX Résumé Document Class

This document describes how my résumé document class is used.

To use it, download the above file and place it an an appropriate directory (usually the same one as the document itself will work). You will also need my strings.sty macro package (which provides several internal utility functions).

Features of the Document Class

This document class provides (in my opinion) all of the essential features needed for any standard résumé. It offers:

• Section headings
• Individual job entries, with optional date, location fields
• Bullet lists, single- or multi-column

It also allows fonts to be customized easily.

Document Header

The document header information produces your name and address. It should look like:

\documentclass[11pt]{resume}
\name{Your Name}
\address{Your Address \\ In Two Lines}
\phone{Your phone number}
\email{Your e-mail address}

With my text randomizing package you can obfuscate your e-mail address so that machine parsers can't read it:

\usepackage{randtext}
\email{\randomize{Your e-mail address}}

Then, begin your document:

\begin{document}
\maketitle

Body Text

To create a header:

\section{Section Title}

There are no subsections.

Normal text will be typeset in paragraphs as expected. Most text in the résumé is made up of entries, which contain a title, a date, an optional location, and text. The syntax is:

<Entry> := \entry <date> [_@_<location>] . _ <title> "|" <any text>

<date> := <any text>
| <one-date> [ - <one-date> ]

<one-date> := <any text>
| <numeric year>
[ / <any text> | ( <numeric month> [ / <day> ] ) ]

<location> := <any text> [ , _ <state> ]

(Underscores are spaces)

Here are a few examples:

Itemized Lists

Itemized lists are created just as in normal LaTeX, with the itemize environment. (Note that there is no enumerate environment.) However, the environment takes one optional argument, which is a number representing how many columns of items to produce. Thus it is possible to have a multi-column itemized list.

Note that the multiple columns are made with tables, so it is best to reserve multicolumn lists for short elements like programming languages.

Fonts and Styles

Most of the fonts and text styles can be changed by redefining the following commands.

A Sample Document

\documentclass[11pt]{resume}

\name{Charles Duan}
\address{123 My St \\ Los Angeles, CA 90210}
\phone{(310) 555--1212}
\email{charles@duan.com}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\section{First Section}
\entry 2002/12-2003/3 @ Los Angeles. My first job| working somewhere.
\begin{itemize}
\item Something I did.
\item Another thing I did.
\end{itemize}

\end{document}

This will produce a document something like:

Charles Duan

123 My St	charles@duan.com
Los Angeles, CA 90210	(310) 555–1212

First Section

Dec. 2002–Mar. 2003
Los Angeles

My first job working somewhere.

• Something I did.
• Another thing I did.