interview-toolkit

Script to generate resumes and cover letters

I use the templates resume.cls and cover.cls for the styling and structure of my resumes and cover letters. You are free to do so as well! The styling is inspired by the Semantic UI style which I used on my site.

I also created a script to automatically generate them from .yml files.

Table of Contents

• interview-toolkit
  • Table of Contents
  • Install
  • Usage
    • Generate a cover letter
    • Generate a resume
    • Arguments
  • Overview of Latex style files
    • Resume
      • Environments
        • cvheader
        • cvdetails
        • cvskills
      • Commands
        • \cvsite
        • \cvemail
        • \cvbirthdate
        • \cvaddress
        • \cvphone
        • \cvgithub
        • \cvitem
        • \cvskill
        • \cvproject
        • \cvcallaction
    • Cover letter
      • Environment
        • covdetails
      • Commands
        • \covemail
        • \covaddress
        • \covphone
  • Configuration files for the generators
    • Resume yml structure
    • Cover letter yml structure
  • Maintainers
  • Contributing
  • License

Install

git clone https://github.com/theodedeken/interview-toolkit
pip install .

Usage

It's required that the latexmk command is available.

Generate a cover letter

interview-toolkit cover <path_to_cover_yml_file>

Generate a resume

interview-toolkit resume <path_to_resume_yml_file>

Arguments

• --lang <lang>: specify language (currently only dutch and english are supported)
• --tex: only generate .tex file
• --clean: clean the build files

Overview of Latex style files

Resume

Environments

cvheader

The header of the resume, takes the path to your photo as argument.

cvdetails

The details section of the header.

cvskills

Environment to group and format the cvskill commands.

Commands

\cvsite

Used in the cvdetails environment to add a site to your details.

\cvemail

Used in the cvdetails environment to add an email to your details.

\cvbirthdate

Used in the cvdetails environment to add a birthdate to your details.

\cvaddress

Used in the cvdetails environment to add an address to your details.

\cvphone

Used in the cvdetails environment to add a phone number to your details.

\cvgithub

Used in the cvdetails environment to add a link to your Github profile to your details.

\cvitem

Experience to add to your resume.

\cvitem{title}{location}{date}{description}{leveraged_knowledge}

\cvskill

Skill to add to your resume.

\cvskill{name}{grade}{content}

\cvproject

Personal project to add to your resume

\cvproject{title}{link}{description}{leveraged_knowledge}

\cvcallaction

Add a call to action to your resume.

Cover letter

Environment

covdetails

Section in the cover letter to include your own details.

Commands

\covemail

Used in the covdetails environment to add an email address to your details.

\covaddress

Used in the covdetails environment to add an address to your details.

\covphone

Used in the covdetails environment to add a phone number to your details.

Configuration files for the generators

To optimize the process of making cover letters and resumes for potential jobs I wrote a script to generate then for me from a yml file. This way content is separated from styling and structure.

Resume yml structure

author: your name
title: your title
photo: path to your photo
details:
  birthdate: your birthdate
  address: your address
  phone: your phone
  site: your site
  email: your email
  github: your github username
education:
  - title: degree title
    place: institution
    date:  period of enrollment
    text: extra info
  ...
experience:
  - title: title of experience
    place: location of experience
    date: period of experience
    text: description of experience
    leveraged: leveraged knowledge
  ...
projects:
  - title: title of project
    link: link to project
    text: description of project
    leveraged: leveraged knowledge
skills:
  - title: skill name
    grade: skill grade
    body: skill body
  ...
action: call to action

Cover letter yml structure

author: your name
title: your title
details:
  address: your address
  phone: your phone
  email: your email
addressee: The recipient of your cover letter
signature: your signature
opening: your opening
closing: your closing
body: the cover letter itself

Maintainers

@theodedeken

Contributing

Small note: If editing the README, please conform to the standard-readme specification.

License

MIT © 2020 Theo Dedeken

This work is licensed under multiple licences:

• All original source code is licensed under MIT.
• All configuration files are licensed under CC0.
• My picture in the examples is licensed under CC-BY-NC-4.0.

All the files in this repo are licensed according to the REUSE specification.