When applying for graduate/doctoral studies, if we are doing an internship or working full-time in industry, we usually need a letter of recommendation from our supervisor. In my experience, companies rarely provide formal letter templates for study abroad applications, and applicants or recommenders usually make them themselves.
Therefore, I open-sourced the project ByteDance-Letter-Template which is suitable for most companies, taking ByteDance as an example. In addition, you can adapt it into a recommendation letter template for other companies, such as Tencent, Alibaba, Pinduoduo, Meituan, etc.
- You DO NOT NEED to know too much Latex syntax to use it.
- Support online compilation using Overleaf, without the need to install the TexLive environment locally.
- A simple template that can be further customized or extended.
- Separate the letter's main content from the template frame.
- Support adding hyperlinks in generated PDF, such as email or url.
- Support for footnote markers.
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├── LICENSE \\ repo license
├── README.md \\ readme in English
├── README_zh.md \\ readme in Chinese
├── letterContent.tex \\ main content of the letter, isolates from the template frame
├── main.pdf \\ letter pdf generated after latex compilation
├── main.tex \\ template frame
├── pic \\ folder where pictures are stored
│ ├── Alibaba_Logo.png
│ ├── ByteDance_Logo.png
│ ├── ByteDance_Logo_Bg.png
│ ├── Meituan_Logo.png
│ ├── Pinduoduo_Logo.png
│ ├── Tencent_Logo.png
│ └── signature.png
└── sample \\ sample
├── ByteDance.png
├── Meituan.png
└── Tencent.png
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Change the address of the letter
\hphantom{AA}Block B, Building T2 \\ % Change your address \hphantom{AA}School of Information Science and Technology \\ \hphantom{AA}Shenzhen Bay Innovation Technology Center \\ \hphantom{AA}3156 Keyuan South Road, Nanshan District \\ \hphantom{AA}Shenzhen, P. R. China, 518054 \\
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Change the signature of the letter
Sincerely yours, \includegraphics[width=2in]{pic/signature.png} % Please sign your name xxx, Tech Lead Manager \\ % Change your personal information Department of Product RD and Infrastructure \\ ByteDance \\ Phone: (86) 10-xxxx-xxx \\ Email: \href{mailto:xxx@bytedance.com}{xxx@bytedance.com} \\ Website: \url{https://www.bytedance.com/en} \\
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Change the logo of the letter
pic/ByteDance_Logo_Bg.png % you may need to adjust the transparency of your picture. pic/ByteDance_Logo.png
Main content of the letter.
- Edit your content.
- Note the use of
\\
for line breaks.
- Open Overleaf link
Open as Template
- Edit your content
- Compile
- Download PDF
- Install the Tex local environment: https://www.latex-project.org/get
- Download this repo:
git clone https://github.com/leungll/ByteDance-Letter-Template.git
- Run:
pdflatex main
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