Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume

Re:Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume by kirillseva on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:10PM (#16328027)

I highly recommend that you build out more boring themes. Software engineers need resumes too, and interesting looking ones are treated as an expression of creativity. But target demographic for chrome extensions is not on HN, where people care about their privacy, know of a 1000 different ways to abuse trust online, and are capable of creating a custom LaTeX resume if they have to.

People in, say, finance would love to have an easy tool that generates a resume that looks like a banking resume. Your fancy templates are worthless to them - they do not conform to industry standard. I'm sure a lot of other professions have the same culture and you should do some research in this direction.

Otherwise, great product! Wish you best of luck.

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Re:Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume by mitchas on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:22PM (#16328129)

That's #1 on my to-do list right now.

I just started sharing this around publicly today. I haven't been working on it for long, and just finished working out some major bugs on it last night. I wanted to know if this was something people liked and would use before spending a ton of time making themes.

The themes I have now are basically just general themes with no specific profession/purpose in mind. But yeah, I'll definitely be adding more themes in the coming days, some of which will be tailored to different professions.

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Re:Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume by ecesena on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @06:55PM (#16329043)

+1 for latex, I use moderncv.

Having the export in latex would be great, my cv is a subset of my linkedin profile, it would be fast to comment out unnecessary sections and re-render the pdf.

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Re:Show HN: An extension to turn your LinkedIn into a resume by hobs on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @04:11PM (#16328040)

Also those resumes are often just fed right back into applicant tracking systems, so I have a creative human friendly and a system friendly copy.

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