CV/Cover Letter LaTeX moderncv templates + build tools

This is my personal CV and my cover letter template. Content unsafe for web has been intentionally removed but the artifacts will still build correctly with dummy information. This repo is aimed to be used as a basis for your own CV/Cover Letters.

It is based on LaTeX moderncv template file.

Example output

My CV with my professional email and dummy phone number:

My cover letter template:

Installation

General instructions

Clone the project.

Then install dependencies:

• a LaTeX build system like texlive
• moderncv package
• fira font

Make sure the command pdflatex works and Bash is correctly installed. Beware that Bash is not shipped by default on Windows.

Per-OS instructions

On Fedora

git clone git@github.com:nicobao/cv-cover.git 
# OR
git clone https://github.com/nicobao/cv-cover.git
# then
sudo dnf install texlive texlive-moderncv.noarch texlive-moderncv-doc.noarch texlive-fira-doc.noarch texlive-fira.noarch 

Build

Output files will be stored in the output/ directory.

Prerequisites

The following commands assume you're currently in the repository root directory (cd cv-cover after your git clone).

Build all

Run ./build.sh.

Build CV

Run ./build-cv.sh.

Actual content of CV must be stored in private/shared.tex.

Build cover letters

Actual cover letter content must be stored in private/cover-letters/. They fill ./cover-letter.tex template file.

The name of the files in private/cover-letters/ will be reused when outputing the .pdf filenames.

Build all letters

Run ./build-cover-letters.sh to build them all.

Build specific letters

Run ./build-cover-letters.sh Company1 Company2 to build cover letters for Company1 and Company2.

For example, to apply to Acme Inc, create private/cover-letters/Acme.tex with your cover letter content, and then run ./build-cover-letters.sh Acme to build only this specific letter.

Examples

Private folder

An example of files that should be created in private folder is available in the example/private folder.

Template moderncv

The original official moderncv template file is directly available in example/template.tex. It contains helpful comments and can serve as documentation.

License

The following content:

• git repository including source code and accompanying documentation
• issues
• wiki

are all primarily distributed under the terms of the BSD-Patent License, with portions covered by various OSI-approved licenses.

See LICENSE, and COPYRIGHT for details.

Contributing

Disclaimer

By contributing to this repository, either by opening an issue, updating the wiki, or sending a commit/pull-request via git, you accept to license your work under the license used by the project.