Recently I found myself needing to update my resume with a new project. No big deal, right? It’s a little harder when your resume template as of the last 9 years has been in Microsoft Word and you’re now primarily running linux. What to do? Surely I don’t want to have to reboot into Windows every time and it was overdue for a redesign anyway. Enter recommendations for Overleaf. 🙂 Overleaf is an online editor with tons of templates for LaTeX. Even after picking out some templates to try though, it wasn’t working quite how I wanted. LaTeX was new to me and working in some pretty finicky templates was set aside for later.
Last week a friend of mine asked us to look over her resume and we decided it was great content but it lacked style. I recreated it with a template we liked that’d nicely handle having 3 degrees. Of course I couldn’t stop then and had to do mine next. By the time I was done, I had enough of a grasp on latex to be able to alter the template code to fit my needs…and design ideas. ? I finally have something I really love and am not just tolerating until I figure out something better.
Go ahead, try it out yourself. 😀 Try different templates until you find one that fits!