Lists in Tabular Environment

Question

So I'm writing up a CV and I would like to use the nifty itemize environment to list some things within a tabular environment. Unfortunately, things end up looking a bit , which isn't at all what I want. Specifically, I want to the itemize environment to hug closely to "BIG COMPANY NAME" so that it appears as "Software Development Intern" does, and likewise at the bottom. My current code looks a bit like so:

\textsc{May 2010 to Aug 2010}
    & Software Development Intern  \\
    & \textsc{BIG COMPANY NAME} \\
    & \begin{itemize}
        \setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
        \setlength{\parskip}{0pt}
        \setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
        \setlength{\partopsep}{0pt}
        \setlength{\topsep}{0pt}
        \item item1
        \item item2
    \end{itemize} \\
    & \small{Cool Details}\\

Buuut it's not doing the job at all. Any suggestions, Latex gurus?

Answer 1

You can use the package paralist which defines among others the compactitem environment (which is a compact itemize). It also redefines itemize that way, but there are options to leave it, like olditem.
In your case I would just load

\usepackage[olditem,oldenum]{paralist}

and use \begin{compactitem} ... \end{compactitem} inside tables.