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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

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Please don't color part of a word blue and part of a word black

[–] rustydrd 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The world must know of my skills.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Do you mean your 1337 2k1llz?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Exactly where my eyes went. Pro, Exp, ... Ski?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Professional Experience

Education

Networking information

Inerests

Skills

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This type of resume isn't for the tools, it's for the humans who glance at the resume before the interview.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Experience should be listed first. Education last.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You just don't appreciate how prestigious it is to get a degree from Example U.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Uh, my dad had to donate a gazebo to example u so I could get in, and I was a legacy candidate!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Idk if this common around the world but in Germany it's because you sort from present to past.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago

You forgot to include a link to the project:

https://github.com/DeveloperPaul123/modern-cv

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

"C++, Python, Java" truly is the Lorem Ipsum of coding languages

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

This looks good.

A few unsolicited nit-picky suggestions;

  • I'm not a big fan of mixing colors in a single word. 'Taky' might the be the right to describe why. I do like the color blue you used - if you're going to do it, make it the whole word. The name should also be consitent. Bold and either black or blue, not black and blue.
  • The light blue and light gray body text is difficult to read. Colors should be solid black, or navy blue. Bright and 'fun' colors are heard to read for some. Assume they're colorblind or will print it on a B&W printer with poor contrast.
  • I like to lead with the job title instead of the company. Where you worked is largely irrevelvant compared to what you've done at those places. It also makes it easy to combine company, city and years in one line.
  • start with previous jobs (unless education was most recent or more relevant to new job). Typically the order is job > skills > education.
  • Avoid italics they can be unnecessarily diffuclt to read

Engine Mechanic

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;

Bob's University, City, ST

B.S. Computer Science, minor electrical enginnering

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Thanks for all the feedback! I'll take each point into consideration as I work on the next version of the template :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can you please post the repo of your template for people who are interested?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I added it to the original post, sorry about that!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was using a template like this several months ago, (in typst) I think someone had already ported awesomecv beforehand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh really? I couldn't find a port of this before. Do you happen to have a link?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Several of the ones listed on awesome-typst are similar, notably:

Not to knock the work you have done though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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

    • Developer - June 2023 to August 2023
      • Description 1
      • Description 2
    • Analyst - March 2021 - May 2022
      • Description 1

I havent found any resume template that can handle this (nested experience) automatically

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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 protected]", 
      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)
]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@tarius @devpaul

What you can do is more important that who you have done it for. I prefer to see skills, experience, employment history, and education in that order.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I understand. But, consultants could work on so many various things based on the project. Its better to provide context of the role and what industry that project was instead of only showing one block of text.

As an example, If I worked at a company for 2 years, I could have used GitHub for 3 months in one project and used GitLab for 6 months in another project. If I write both of them in the same block, you would think I have 2 years of experience in both which is not accurate.

Obviously there are ways you can write that in the description. I was just wondering if there are options to have nested experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (8 children)

@tarius
The skills section is the place you can list years of use of each tool or technology. The experience section is a place to list accomplishments, independently of what tools were used.

My recommendation is based on science consulting, where a pretty clear division can be made between tools and accomplishments.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Where can I borrow the template?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I added the link in the post now. It's also available on typst universe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Awesome. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Education section first for very junior roles. Experience first for anyone with professional experience

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If you don't have an experience section at all, then sure that'd bump it up the list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This CV does not exist .com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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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