Seems like an awesome idea you have here. However, I uploaded my partners resume as a PDF and it didn't parse out any of the relevant details. Meaning they would pretty much need to redo the entire resume in this tool.
This is a good suggestion. If I've already gone to the trouble to make a machine-readable resume, it would be nice to at least seed my CV with the data from that file.
I made this tool because I always feel the pain when having to update my resume as well as my friends ones.
Since I tend to keep my Github pretty updated my idea was having a way to generate a professional looking resume getting the information from my profile (personal data, website, tags, repos, etc...) the fastest possible, without having to tinker much with the design or anything.
I haven't had the opportunity to test it with many people yet, so any feedback is more than appreciated.
Do you have any plans to open source this? I love the function and have always wished something like this exists. I have my own dumb opinions on resumes like format and multiple pages, so I'd like to be able to tweak the design a bit.
This looks cool. I use LinkedIn as my most up to date resume. I could export to PDF and then upload it to you, but it would be great if I could just put in my LinkedIn URL.
What do you think about digital/interactive resumes?
I've been building out a tool to make resumes that let you zoom in to different topics, would love to get your thoughts on whether you'd like to see something like this: https://prototype.profiled.app
Looking forward to reading this in any case! I lost my contracting role due to Covid and I think it's great that you're giving away those extra copies to those in need.
I think this is a great idea. I love the idea of a universal data format for resumes.
However, I'm not at all convinced that JSON is the way to do it. I think the way to do it is with XML and XSLT, although I already can hear the cries of "But XML is yucky and XSLT is hard." But by using JSON, we lose some semantic markup and end up having to parse it to create some semantic markup.
Still, I hope this, or something like it, takes off. This just needs a web-based GUI tool to publish a resume so that non-geeks can make it happen.
I've been working on a LaTeX-based resume builder (link in profile) and I could see something like this being useful for allowing users to take their data with them and move it between services. Anything that reduces the time it takes for people to input information and see the resulting image/pdf is worth looking into, so I'll be checking this out.
This seems awesome. I keep a copy of my resume online, and I've been doing some applying lately. I inevitably am asked for a resume in a specific format (pdf/doc), once it even specified that it had to be < 200kb in size (which my pdfLaTeX middleware didn't handle). The formats also look clean and professional, and in fact one of them appears to be the one that I use. Definitely signing up for this later today
One thing that I really wanted to do for hiring is to be able to put resumes on top of each other in a tool and slice and dice over time periods to see how a person's career has evolved be it in terms of companies they worked for, skills they picked up etc. Does anyone else feel the same need? Storing the resumes in a queryable format is a good first step towards my dream :)
Nice tool. If possible add a collection of random data to generate a random resume so that people can see a real resume before filling out their actual personal data.
Sole developer: VisualCV has been around since 2007, we recently acquired it to tackle some of the major pain points we had with resumes. Resumes currently have terrible formatting and can't be parsed very accurately.
Most people don't know this but recruiters in large corps rarily read through any of the resumes that comes in. Almost all applications are first parsed by one of the four major resume extraction vendors (sovren, resume mirror, burning glass, daxtra) then dumped into an applicant tracking system. Usually a resume is looked at only when someone does a keyword search on their database. While the process does extract majority of the content it still garbles up a lot of sections that people have spent hours painstakingly editing.
The industry seems to be stuck in a crazy process where it takes structured data turn it into a generally unstructured format (pdf, docx) and use another set of service to try to parse it back again.
We have a unique opportunity to actually work with one of the major resume extraction vendors and start to embed hrXML meta data into a pdf resume so that it can perfectly extracted. We are giving all our pro designs away for free for the next week and we'd appreciate any feedback!
This is very helpful to know. Thanks for sharing this. I haven't tested the resume parser with the resume pdf generated from LinkedIn. I just create an issue and will test it next: https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume/issues/5. I will share more once I look more into it.
Looks like a reasonable idea (but what do I know!)
Couple of points
* "Accept applications and resumes autonomously" doesn't scan very well.
* You desperately need an 'example' section, so I can see how it would look on my site for applications, and so I can see what my UI experience would be as an employer
It would be really useful for the people making the resume also. Right now the current mainstream advice is to use Microsoft Word for creation and editing and then (typically) to submit as PDF. Both of those document standards are proprietary and opaque. If you two computers that don't have the same operating system, you're probably SOL for tweaking your resumes across computers as well.
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