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Although there is a bitbucket icon in FontAwesome there is current no support for listing a bitbucket username in the header.

It has bothered me for some time that as I decide to add new socials I always have to add so much boilerplate code into the class file. What would be better is some way to incrementally build the socials based on the order they are defined in then insert this saved text upon the already used \makecvheader[C]

Initial macro definitions:

\edef\testheader{ }
\newcommand{\testheaderAdd}[1]{\protected@edef\testheader{\testheader{}#1 }}
\newcommand{\testheaderAddWicon}[2]{\protected@edef\testheader{\testheader{} #1\acvHeaderIconSep#2 }}
\newcommand{\testheaderAddSocial}[3]{\protected@edef\testheader{\testheader{} \href{#2/#3}{#1\acvHeaderIconSep#3}}}
...
\newcommand{\testheaderTwitter}[1]{\testheaderAddSocial{\faTwitter}{https://twitter.com/}{#1}}

Usage:

\testheaderAdd{Testing}
\testheaderAddWicon{\aiOverleaf}{\href{https://overleaf.com}{Overleaf}}
\testheaderTwitter{RAHagenson}
\testheader

Note, this currently does not add any social separator character (i.e., |), but a simple check if \testheader is not empty then prepending the social separator character (and space) would suffice to fix this to match the current style.

Currently the order of fields in a \cventry prints out in a different order than expected (the first fields is printed below the second field).

Suggested options:

1. Provide an \orderedEntry that prints in order (first two entries in order on the left, second two entries in order on the right, fifth entry below)

\newcommand*{\orderedEntry}[5]{%
    \cventry{#2}{#1}{#3}{#4}{#5}%
}

2. Change the defined order of \cventry switching all #1 <-> #2

Original:

\newcommand*{\cventry}[5]{%
  \vspace{-2.0mm}
  \setlength\tabcolsep{0pt}
  \setlength{\extrarowheight}{0pt}
  \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} L{\textwidth - 4.5cm} R{4.5cm}}
    \ifempty{#2#3}
      {\entrypositionstyle{#1} & \entrydatestyle{#4} \\}
      {\entrytitlestyle{#2} & \entrylocationstyle{#3} \\
      \entrypositionstyle{#1} & \entrydatestyle{#4} \\}
    \multicolumn{2}{L{\textwidth}}{\descriptionstyle{#5}}
  \end{tabular*}%
}

Change:

\newcommand*{\cventry}[5]{%
  \vspace{-2.0mm}
  \setlength\tabcolsep{0pt}
  \setlength{\extrarowheight}{0pt}
  \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{@{\extracolsep{\fill}} L{\textwidth - 4.5cm} R{4.5cm}}
    \ifempty{#1#3}
      {\entrypositionstyle{#2} & \entrydatestyle{#4} \\}
      {\entrytitlestyle{#1} & \entrylocationstyle{#3} \\
      \entrypositionstyle{#2} & \entrydatestyle{#4} \\}
    \multicolumn{2}{L{\textwidth}}{\descriptionstyle{#5}}
  \end{tabular*}%
}

I much prefer the cvskill as used in AltaCV

\usepackage{xcolor}
\newcommand{\cvskill}[2]{%
\textcolor{emphasis}{\textbf{#1}}\hfill
\foreach \x in {1,...,5}{%
  \space{\ifnumgreater{\x}{#2}{\color{body!30}}{\color{accent}}\ratingmarker}}\par%
}
\colorlet{accent}{awesome}
\colorlet{heading}{black}
\colorlet{emphasis}{black}
\colorlet{body}{black!80!white}
\newcommand{\itemmarker}{{\small\textbullet}}
\newcommand{\ratingmarker}{\faCircle}

Usage:

\cvskill{English}{2}

Prints as a bold English followed by as much whitspace as possible (\hfill then 2 circles with same color as awesome (same color used throughout the CV), then 3 gray circles. Allows rating a skill on a Likert scale with 5 levels.

Font Awesome has added ORCID as a supported icon. As well, there is a LaTeX package of academic icons (https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/academicons)

Given I have made some formatting changes to ensure a section header is on the same page as at least some of its content, the examples do not match how the page would actually be rendered currently.

To appear better to my eyes and fit longer data ranges change to:

L{3.0cm} L{\textwidth - 5.0cm} R{2.0cm}

from

C{1.5cm} L{\textwidth - 4.0cm} R{2.5cm}

As can be seen above, the word "spectroscoper" has been allowed to go outside the bounds of the margin. My initial thought on how best to solve this is to place the skills inside a minipage which is slightly smaller than the text width -- this would force wrapping earlier and also enable the content appearing more centered on the page.