Hey there. In our little how-to I'll explain something that was very useful to me, this great tutorial by Didier Verna, on using the Latex curve class to build Cvs (pretty nice and standardized ones). That will be a superb reading for a more detailed tutorial. If you want to take a peek before reading on, here is my CV sample(a little past upgrade time :P), using a modified version of the sample used on the aforementioned tutorial, plus the source files here.

Anyway, I'll use the Ubuntu 7.10 distro, and all the wonderful free tool that are at our disposal in there. First, lets download the, IMO, best latex docs editor, kile. Then let's proceed to fetch the LaTeX packages so our Kile can compile smoothly our docs.

$ sudo apt-get install kile tetex-extra

Now bake a cake and go play soccer (looong download). Then download the Curve (or take the compiled one with my source files) class and place it on the docs root tree. So, now build a new project, add all the necessary files on that, including the curve class. If click on the pdflatex button (the big gear with a little pdf symbol) it should generate the cv.pdf nicely (don't forget to only use PDF, JPG, JBIG2, and PNG graphics formats, kile use pdflatex on this command, do yourself a favor and read the manual).

On some future post I'll go step by step on my modifications and the meanings of the commands. But if you just change the text and go hacking stuff you'll eventually find out what things mean. Oh, and please write on open office or something else that has a grammar correction, a CV with grammar mistakes don't look so good :)