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Tips for Professional CV Writing with LaTeX

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CV Tip: Align Columns of Different LaTeX Tables with \settowidth

The problem with tables in a CV is that they are usually typeset as pairs of date => some job title, or piece of research.
For example, on the left, you can see three different sections:

A Work Experience section;
The Education section;
Another Section for Scholarships

So what happens when you are typesetting the columns of the document, especially [...]

CV Tip: Letterspacing your name with XeLaTeX + Fontspec

Typographic Principle:
LetterspacingĀ  may increase the readability of your text, whereby the principle applies to
a) text set in bold;
b) text set in small caps.
It does not apply to text set in lowercase. In other words, don’t letterspace text set in lowercase.
How does this apply to a Resume?
There are at least two cases in which we [...]