Hi all,
I made this typst template originally to port my personal resume to typst from Latex. It tries to be a faithful port of the Awesome-CV latex template that I was previously using. Hope you find it useful.
https://github.com/DeveloperPaul123/modern-cv
Edit: added missing link
Please don't color part of a word blue and part of a word black
The world must know of my skills.
Do you mean your 1337 2k1llz?
Exactly where my eyes went. Pro, Exp, ... Ski?
Professional Experience
Education
Networking information
Inerests
Skills
This is interesting as I simply copied the same styling as the previous template I was using. Would it be better to highlight the entire first word instead of the first n letters?
All of those headings are single words.
Taste is subjective, but mine says either color the whole heading or don't color it at all.
Black only. Either bold or italics if you feel the need to add emphasis.
Most resumes are parsed by tools and you'll never see fancy formatting anyways.
This type of resume isn't for the tools, it's for the humans who glance at the resume before the interview.
I've used the template this is based on before. I just set the default color to black and modified the word to be all bold.
I appreciate that OP did a perfect port though.
Experience should be listed first. Education last.
You just don't appreciate how prestigious it is to get a degree from Example U.
Uh, my dad had to donate a gazebo to example u so I could get in, and I was a legacy candidate!
Thanks for the feedback! I think this makes sense for those who do have work experience. Do you think this should still be the case for new graduates?
Also I should note you can easily change the order of things in your own CV.
Yes. Your education is a 5 second skim through, I would not put it at the center page. If you believe you have zero relevant experience, then omit that panel and let’s make the main focus your projects.
Idk if this common around the world but in Germany it's because you sort from present to past.
"C++, Python, Java" truly is the Lorem Ipsum of coding languages
This looks good.
A few unsolicited nit-picky suggestions;
Bob's Auto | City, ST | 2017-2021
Education does not need so many details (if relevant to job, include specific courses and projects). Grad date can be omitted to help obfuscate you're age (a grad from 2024 is probably inexpirenced, while a 1967 grad is going to be retiring soon).
Two lines is all you need;
B.S. Computer Science, minor electrical enginnering
Thanks for all the feedback! I'll take each point into consideration as I work on the next version of the template :)
I'm working on some of the changes your suggested. Here are screenshots of the adjustments. I'm curious to hear your thoughts. Thanks!
Here is a monochrome version without colored headers. I also adjusted the default accent color, but this is user configurable as well.
It looks a lot cleaner now.
The body text seems too light still, but that might be my phone screen. It should be solid black.
~~Only~~ One change from here I would strongly recommend making is the blue "city" text black.
Treat blue and bold text as your 'highlighter', there to help someone quickly navigate to the important sections of the page. City is not important. Your use of varriying font sizes and bullet lists is great for page navigation.
If I was going to use color, I'd highlight the jobs before the city name/git link.
The rest is personal taste.
Personally, I think the blue headers is enough. It might get to too blue if you color job titles as well. You don't need a separate monochrome version, the dark blue will show as black if it happens to be printed in B&W. You should also test print your resume in B&W. I find easier to spot errors on paper.
Edits as I spot more little things.
(Also there's an extra space in the second skill name - Event Bus)
(You also have space to make programming languages one line. At first glace I though you had a blank section for "languages". Could probably just say "programming", but I'm not in that field so maybe that's frowned upon?)
(In education, you have an example line underneath the university name, what is that line for? I would put the degree in that space, not off to the side. That's technicaly more important that the university it self, but it's probably "improper form" to list that above the uni name. (or whatever some one snoby would say).
(One last thing, you don't really need your full street address. Its unlikely anyone will mail you a response, and its just as likely you'll have to enter it into the application form anyways. City will suffice.)
(One last last thing, if you're going to give yourself titles at the top, you better show them in your expirence section. (I know this is just an example template and I am being incredibly picky) but I don't see architect anyware in the actual resume. That communicates to me you're just calling yourself related titles hoping one sticks)
Can you please post the repo of your template for people who are interested?
I added it to the original post, sorry about that!
This is great! How would you describe your experience creating this template? I've been wondering about porting the modern-cv template from LaTeX myself.
Overall it was pretty nice honestly. Especially coming from Latex. Creating a template in Latex was very difficult but in typst it's way more intuitive (at least to me) and it's easy to control every aspect of the text and its layout.
I was using a template like this several months ago, (in typst) I think someone had already ported awesomecv beforehand.
Oh really? I couldn't find a port of this before. Do you happen to have a link?
Several of the ones listed on awesome-typst are similar, notably:
Not to knock the work you have done though
Ahh yes, I tend to forget about these "awesome" lists. Thanks for the links.
It seems that Brilliant CV is a direct port of the same latex template I used to use as well. The developer references it as well in the README. I do think my template is a bit easier to use and is more up to date with the latest typst version but there are some really nice templates on there.
That's awesome, I spent a day fighting with Latex to edit awesomecv without causing errors or breaking the template. Really hope Typst takes off.
I can only see the image though, not the link to your project
Someone already post that. Typst it's already a lot easier to use, with meaningful errors and markup near markdown and don't need 200x hard disk space, nor dependencies to work.
Thanks!
I added the link now and yes, I really hope typst takes off as well. I've been using it pretty extensively where I can at work and my personal life and it's so much easier than Latex. I haven't done anything too complicated yet so we'll see how it goes.
Also I added the missing link 😅
Somewhat unrelated question:
How do you list experience based on projects under single employer with timeline?
Right now I have it like this:
Consultant
Employer - 2020 - 2023
I havent found any resume template that can handle this (nested experience) automatically
I put this together in a few minutes using my template. Does this address what you meant?
Here's the typst code:
#import "@preview/modern-cv:0.1.0": *
#show: resume.with(
author: (
firstname: "Person",
lastname: "Lastname",
email: "email@email.com",
phone: "111-111-1111",
github: "DeveloperPaul123",
linkedin: "LinkedIn Name",
address: "111 Road Dr. City, Place 111111",
positions: (
"Software Engineer",
"Software Architect"
)
),
date: datetime.today().display()
)
= Experience
#resume-entry(
title: "Company, Inc.",
location: "Place, Earth",
date: "2022 - 2023"
)
#secondary-justified-header(
"Developer",
"June 2023 to August 2023"
)
#resume-item[
- #lorem(10)
- #lorem(11)
]
#secondary-justified-header(
"Analyst",
"March 2021 - May 2022"
)
#resume-item[
- #lorem(10)
- #lorem(11)
]
I am also in the single pager, latex CV club. I ended up splitting into two columns though like -
NAME
contact deets
-----------------------------------------
bio | current workplace
skills | old workplace (senior)
education | old workplace (midlevel)
projects | first workplace
Where can I borrow the template?
Sorry, I added the link in the post now. It's also available on typst universe.
Awesome. Thank you.
This CV does not exist .com
As a manager who sometimes hires, I can't say that I would ever particularly care about the education section for the types of roles I hire for, let alone put it first and foremost.
Also, personally, my own CV combines my role's duties and its achievements/projects together for each of the jobs I've had, with a primary focus on the recent.
Education section first for very junior roles. Experience first for anyone with professional experience
If you don't have an experience section at all, then sure that'd bump it up the list.
I haven't had a single page resume in over a decade, I think you usually want to have more for SEO purposes. A lot of places filter by keywords.
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