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Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by eyelidlessness on Monday January 04, 2021 @02:59PM (#25637008)
This is visually very attractive. Have you considered supporting uploading structured resume formats like FRESH?

Edit: also I want to emphasize the fact that this looks great on mobile, which isn’t something I always expect in this space. That said I’d consider bumping up the text size a bit (or allowing users to do so for their own profile).

Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by mxuribe on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:00PM (#25637921)
> ...structured resume formats like FRESH...

I've never heard of this (FRESH), and am intrigued and interested. Would you kindly share some more info on this?

Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by indymike on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:23PM (#25638278)
There's also HR Open Standards Candidate as well.
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by olegp on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:19PM (#25637284)
Would you be able to provide a link to the FRESH format you mention? What other structured resume formats are there in widespread use?
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by photonios on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:37PM (#25637525)
In Europe, EUROPASS is not uncommon: https://europa.eu/europass/en/create-europass-cv
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by BossingAround on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @02:29AM (#25643076)
In Europe, you'll never impress anyone with Europass, but you're highly unlikely not screw anything up.

It is well structured, people know what to expect, it's machine readable... Personally, I like it a lot, as opposed to some flashy website PDF that an applicant thinks it's amazing, but it takes me extra 30s to find a piece of data on it.

Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by olegp on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @01:30AM (#25642779)
It took me more than a couple of Google searches for me to find it in the end, so here's a link to FRESH, in case someone else is interested: https://github.com/fresh-standard/fresh-resume-schema
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by DavidAdams on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:33PM (#25637470)
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.
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by _andychung on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:13PM (#25638141)
I haven't heard of FRESH before, but I'll certainly look into it. Filling out a CV is a chore and anything I can do to make it easier for people would be great.
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by eyelidlessness on Monday January 04, 2021 @05:47PM (#25639352)
It might also help you refine your data model to use other structured standards as a reference. It’s helped me think about building my own personal site presentation.
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by vaillant on Monday January 04, 2021 @04:19PM (#25638223)
I was wondering about the existence of structured resume formats, so thank you for this random piece of knowledge in a place I did not expect to find it.
Re:Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional ... by myself248 on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:32PM (#25639759)
For real. I've been wishing for such a format for years. Now if I find myself applying for jobs, I can sneer derisively at places that don't support any of these, and then grudgingly apply for them manually anyway.