Einstein CV Template

TL;DR

This template requires LaTeX¹.

With very little pain, it should let you...

• pick the colors of your liking
• remove/change the icons
• resize the header/contact band/page columns as you see fit
• move sections around
• write your content on multiple pages²

Important warning

The layout was optimized for screenview only, i.e. it comes with no page margins. If printed, the absence of margins will mess everything. You have been warned.

Example

Take a look at the samples placed in examples/ and decide whether this template is a good starting point for you or not.

How to customize the CV to your taste

Colors

You'll most certainly want to chose different colors for the header, contact band and left column. To do so, open cv_einstein.cls.

Tools such as HSB Color Picker will help you find a suitable hue, saturation and brightness. The only caveat is that the template takes hue values between [0;1] while most online color pickers display hues in [0; 255] or [0; 360] ranges. You'll have to do some maths.

Icons

All icons come from Font Awesome for LaTeX, whose documentation is available at doc/fontawesome.pdf.

Layout

Rearranging the layout and the visual elements should also be pretty straightforward, as the template doesn't use any fancy package beyond paracol and tikz.

You'll see some negative \hspace{} and \vspace{} here and there to keep things aligned, but resizing and moving things around shouldn't give you headaches.

Having said that...

Request

This template can be improved in many ways, from code quality to visual design. If you make a fork with your own ideas, please be kind and share your version back on Overleaf, where I drew most of my inspiration from, as a way to thank the community.

Last words

The template was made colorful and "visual" on purpose. If you are looking for less exotic designs, Alta CV templates may be good options.

Whatever your choice, I wish you a successful job search!

ML

Footnotes

1. If you don't know what LaTeX is, then you should probably not invest your time learning it now in the middle of your job search. However, if want to give it a try, I recommend using Overleaf which offers a very decent user experience even with their free plan. Actually, this CV template is available in Overleaf's public gallery among many other templates I drew inspiration from. ↩

2. You would be surprised how many popular templates break as soon as you need your CV to be 2 pages or more. ↩