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Customizable template of Cover Letter and CV in LaTeX

Description

Customizable CV template, arthur-cv, allow you to choose color themes, display or not some personal information (age, address, pictures, etc.) with respect to English and French convention, define some sections on left bar (skills, etc.), and define some sections in the body (education, experience, etc.) of the CV.

Customizable cover letter template, arthur-cover-letter, is classical with the same header than the CV template. The template allow English conventions (address and date at right and recipient information at left) and French conventions (address and date at left, and recipient information at right).


Example preview

English version

With respect to English conventions (without age, address and picture).

English_CV

English_cover_letter


French version

With respect to French conventions (with picture, address and age).

French_CV

French_CV


Customized colors

The default theme color of CV and cover letter is different kind of blue, but you can freely custom themes color, see below some non-exhaustive examples:

Colored_Examples

Green

\usepackage{xcolor}   
\definecolor{leftcolorband}{HTML}{d0f0c0}   
\definecolor{boxcolor}{HTML}{59762f}   
\definecolor{maincolor}{HTML}{556b2f}   
\definecolor{secondcolor}{HTML}{85b145}   
\definecolor{thirdcolor}{HTML}{6b8e23}   

Red

\usepackage{xcolor}   
\definecolor{leftcolorband}{HTML}{e0e0e0}   
\definecolor{boxcolor}{HTML}{851919}   
\definecolor{maincolor}{HTML}{420c0c}   
\definecolor{secondcolor}{HTML}{861919}   
\definecolor{thirdcolor}{HTML}{591111}   

Grey

\usepackage{xcolor}   
\definecolor{leftcolorband}{HTML}{e0e0e0}   
\definecolor{boxcolor}{HTML}{606060}   
\definecolor{maincolor}{HTML}{484848}   
\definecolor{secondcolor}{HTML}{909090}   
\definecolor{thirdcolor}{HTML}{606060}   

Yellow

\usepackage{xcolor}   
\definecolor{leftcolorband}{HTML}{fef2bf}   
\definecolor{boxcolor}{HTML}{bfa100}    
\definecolor{maincolor}{HTML}{5f5000}   
\definecolor{secondcolor}{HTML}{e1b400}    
\definecolor{thirdcolor}{HTML}{7f6b00}    

CV environment style and commands

This template is divided in three parts:

  • The header where you can define some personal information;
  • The left bar to display some skills or other;
  • The body of your CV to display your experiences, educations, etc.

The left bar and body must be each one in a minipage environment with respectively 0.37\textwidth and 0.61\textwidth parameters.
You can look one of the following examples: example_cv.tex, Arthur_Bernard_CV_Fr.tex or Arthur_Bernard_CV_En.tex

Header

Set personal information (if you don't want to display one (or several) personal information let the command empty):

\profilepic{path/picture}   
\cvname{Your Name}   
\cvlinkedin{/in/your-linkedin}   
\cvgithub{YourGitHub}   
\cvmail{[email protected]}   
\cvnumberphone{your phone number}   
\cvaddress{Your address}   
\cvjobtitle{Title of your CV}   
\cvsite{www.your-website.com}   
\cvyearsold{your years old}   

Left bar

Set section in left bar:

\sectionleft{Title of this section}

Set items in left bar:

\subsectionleft{Item name}{Optional description}

Body

Set body section:

\section{Title of this section}

Set items in body:

\begin{rightenv}   
  \subsectionright{year}[1st optional argument]{title of item}[2nd optional argument][3rd optional argument]{Description of item}   
  \subsectionright{Date}[Level degree]{Title}[University][Location]{Description}   
  \subsectionright{Date}{Title job}[Firm][Location]{Description}   
\end{rightenv}   

Several pages

Use the following command to add a new page to your CV:

\newcvpage

See example in ./example/Two_Pages_CV.tex.


Cover letter environment style and commands

Header

Set personal information (if you don't want to display one (or several) personal information let the command empty):

\profilepic{path/picture}   
\cvname{Your Name}   
\cvlinkedin{/in/your-linkedin}   
\cvgithub{YourGitHub}   
\cvmail{[email protected]}   
\cvnumberphone{your phone number}   
\cvjobtitle{Title of your CV}   
\cvsite{www.your-website.com}   

Address and recipient

English convention

Address, date, and location are set at top right and the recipient is set at left.

\address{John \capit{DOE},\\123, somestreet\\Somecity}   
\recipient{Sir \capit{COMPANY},\\456, somestreet\\Somecity}   
\location{Somecity, \today}   

French convention

Address, date and location are set at top left and the recipient is set at right.

\addressfr{John \capit{DOE},\\123 rue des Avenue\\Ville}   
\recipientfr{Monsieur \capit{COMPANY},\\456 avenue des Rues\\Ville}   
\locationfr{Ville, \today}   

Body

\begin{coverletter}
  \subject{Application to job of my life}
  \opening{Dear Sir or Madam,}
  % write here the letter body
  \closing{Your sincerly,} % To adapt following recipient
  \signing{John \capit{DOE}}
\end{coverletter}

Requirements

  • Compile with LuaLaTeX (prefered) or XeLaTex.

  • LaTeX packages:

    • fontspec;
    • ClearSans;
    • fontawesome;
    • ragged2e;
    • parskip;
    • hyperref;
    • textpos;
    • titlesec;
    • tikz;
    • xcolor;
    • multirow;
    • xargs;
    • tcolorbox;
    • enumitem;
    • ifthen.

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019-2024 Arthur Bernard

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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