Curricula Vitae / Résumés ⇒ Twenty Seconds Resume / CV: remove personal photo and "About Me" from side bar?

[kkwinner]

Hi -- I was just wondering if there was a way to remove the personal photo and "About Me" sections in the sidebar. I love the c.v. format, but the more personal picture and summary are somewhat unusual in the U.S.

You can't comment out the lines for \profilepic{} or \aboutme{} -- doing so gives an error. Empty content for the commands, as suggested, still leaves the heading "About Me," and gives an error for the image. Putting an empty image in for \profilepic{} leaves an empty white circle where the photo was....

Original template and image:
http://www.latextemplates.com/template/ ... s-resumecv

Any help would be greatly appreciated -- thanks so much!

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%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%	PACKAGES AND OTHER DOCUMENT CONFIGURATIONS
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\documentclass[letterpaper]{twentysecondcv} % a4paper for A4
\usepackage{todonotes}


%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%	 PERSONAL INFORMATION
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

% If you don't need one or more of the below, just remove the content leaving the command, e.g. \cvnumberphone{}

\profilepic{empty.eps} % Profile picture

\cvname{NAME} % Your name
\cvjobtitle{POSITION} % Job title/career

\cvdate{DATE} % Date of birth
\cvaddress{ADDRESS} % Short address/location, use \newline if more than 1 line is required
\cvnumberphone{PHONE[codebox=text file=Untitled.txt][/codebox]} % Phone number
\cvsite{WEB} % Personal website
\cvmail{EMAIL} % Email address

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\begin{document}

%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%	 ABOUT ME
%----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\aboutme{}

[Johannes_B]

I am a bit confused, the only features tha template provides are the sidebar with the photo and some colors. If you don't want those features, why are you using that template?

Others are available, that don't have a photo.

[Vel]

Hey,

The easiest way to get rid of the image and about me sections is to go into twentysecondcv.cls and remove these lines:

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\begin{center}
	\begin{tikzpicture}[x=\imagescale,y=-\imagescale]
		\clip (600/2, 567/2) circle (567/2);
		\node[anchor=north west, inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt] at (0,0) {\includegraphics[width=\imagewidth]{\profilepic}};
	\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}

and

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\profilesection{About me}{2.6cm}
			
\begin{flushleft}
	\aboutme
\end{flushleft}

As Johannes said though, the template doesn't look quite right without the image on the top left so in the very least have a think about what you'd like to fill out that sidebar with.

I'll make a note to edit the template so that if no \profilepic is set that block isn't output, and same for the \aboutme command. Don't hold your breath though, it will take a while

Cheers,
Vel

[kkwinner]

Thank you!!! That worked perfectly. I added a vspace above the name section -- trying to decide whether to vertically center the content, or just to have a nice space above it at the top.

Thanks so much for your quick replies! The answer to "why this template" is that I love the visual Skills ratings in the sidebar. It's a really slick way to summarize skills at a glance, especially for programming -- you don't have to say, 6 years using this, but I haven't used it in three, etc. etc. Maybe there's a better choice for a template that does that... but also, I really like the colors, and the way the sections are delineated in alternating colors leads the eye very well. I do want employers to be able to just scan through in about 20 seconds (or more like maybe 60, since it will be a full CV). So overall I love the template, but a photo might (or might not?) be looked at askance. Maybe I'm pushing the template to try to do more than it should, but, I really like it -- thanks for creating it!

Since you were talking about adding changes, in the future it might be nice, for multi-page CVs, to be able to have only the contact info in the sidebar after the first page, with no Skills....

Thanks again!

[Vel]

No problem, glad you like the template! Although I should point out it was made by someone else, my job is to make them easy to use It's tough anticipating everything someone might want in a template but I'll keep your suggestion in mind about the skills on subsequent pages.

[kkwinner]

Yeah... I didn't want to make my reply any more complicated than it already was, but your attribution to the original templates is really nice on your website. I looked at the original and I like the changes in your version! And thanks for considering my suggestions.