LaTeX resume: combine your resume and cover letter
Send one PDF with your cover letter first and resume after. This works on the PDF LaTeX exported. Small fixes to bullets, dates and links can be made in the PDF with kerning kept. Large rewrites are cleaner in the source.
How to do it
- 1.Open Merge PDF.
- 2.Add the cover letter and the resume, in that order.
- 3.Download the combined PDF.
How LaTeX writes resume PDFs
- • pdfTeX embeds Type1 fonts such as Computer Modern or Latin Modern.
- • Kerning and ligatures are written into each line.
- • Resume classes draw rules and align dates with precise spacing.
What happens to the rest of your resume
- • Every page is kept exactly as it was.
- • Links in both files keep working.
Questions people ask
+Should they be one file?
Only if the application asks for a single upload.
+Is it better to edit in LaTeX?
If you still have the LaTeX version and a lot to change, yes. For a quick fix to the PDF you already sent, editing the PDF is faster.
Other edits to a LaTeX resume
- Fix a typo on your resume
- Update your job title
- Add a bullet point to your resume
- Edit a bullet point on your resume
- Delete a bullet point from your resume
- Change employment dates on your resume
- Update the phone number on your resume
- Update the email address on your resume
- Add a LinkedIn link to your resume
- Add a portfolio link to your resume
- Update the skills on your resume
- Rewrite your resume summary
- Update the education section
- Add a certification to your resume
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