HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

Re:HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army kni... by blowski on Thursday December 24, 2015 @02:01PM (#10789230)

Problem is, your CV should be optimised for the format in which you are looking at it. A Word and PDF version should be no more than 2 sides of A4, with the page break at a logical place. HTML should be interactive, with widgets that show relevant content.

Web design is fundamentally different to print design, and your CV should show that you understand that. So you should be able to make a Word version save that to PDF, then re-write and redesign the content for the web page.

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Re:HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army kni... by claytonjy on Thursday December 24, 2015 @02:23PM (#10789300)

In an optimal sense, I agree with you, but I don't have the skill/time/desire to make a really awesome web version as you describe, and would be quite happy with one that roughly mirrors the printable version. There's always LinkedIn too, which gives some of that interactivity.

Further, this (really the underlying JSON resume schema) could be a great starting point for a fancier web-resume generator working from the same content.

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Re:HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army kni... by snoman on Thursday December 24, 2015 @02:19PM (#10789288)

That's an opinion that not everyone holds, and doesn't necessarily hold for all sorts of people/positions. If you do design-heavy types of work, then it makes a lot of sense to heavily optimize for the format. If not, then that's just window dressing on a format that is used to convey information.

I highly interactive web-based resume for a lawyer or accountant might seem silly in that community (and some of my lawyer/account friends agree).

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