Is this better than the "save to pdf" feature on your profile in LinkedIn?
Yes, we explicitly aim to enhance what is provided in that PDF; providing the same structure of detail.
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#12Does anyone still enjoy writing, rewriting and designing their own CV by hand, for example using Latex? Shouldn't it be a signature, a testament to your sense of individualism and craftsmanship?
Something something json resume :)
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#13Does anyone still enjoy writing, rewriting and designing their own CV by hand, for example using Latex? Shouldn't it be a signature, a testament to your sense of individualism and craftsmanship?
I did. I had a nice TeX or LaTeX hand-tuned one-pager. Yes, "C++" was a macro, to subdue those ridiculous huge '+' characters, there was no Computer Modern Roman, and I made countless other tweaks.
But turned out that shitty ATS software was throwing away my resume, even though it rendered and text-extracted fine, and with normal PDF fonts (not rasterized, like some DVI convertors would do).
Though, one time that the resume got me to an interview battery at a startup, it was a good conversation-starter with their designer, who could tell it was hand-crafted.
Now, I just have a relatively phoned-in two-pager, with lots of search keywords, that I do in LibreOffice. To hopefully get me found by the right serendipitous sourcer/recruiter/manager/founder, and hopefully not have the resume discarded if they pop it into some shitty corporate hiring pipeline system. Nor mangled too badly, if they parse it, and have some people in the process looking only at their shitty parser's output in a Web page.
I'd prefer making the most of one page, but sometimes idealism has to be flexible to the reality on the ground.
Re: Show HN: Convert your LinkedIn profile to a resume
#14Neat, but how does it differ from other tools out there? e.g. https://www.kickresume.com/en/linkedin-resume-builder/
1. Our's is a free extension with no login required.
2. It's not clear how these tools grab this data without some direct integration with LinkedIn or Violation of their terms
3. We use AI to craft resume language, Kick Resume is a copy/Paste
4. We provide a word doc you can download and edit yourself.
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#15Is this better than the "save to pdf" feature on your profile in LinkedIn?
Yes, it scrapes your data and retains it an undefined amount of time and also feeds it into an OpenAI LLM: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/57845026/full-legal
I have no idea why one wouldn't instantly go ahead and install this extension /s
Re: Show HN: Convert your LinkedIn profile to a resume
#16Is this better than the "save to pdf" feature on your profile in LinkedIn?
Yes, it scrapes your data and retains it an undefined amount of time and also feeds it into an OpenAI LLM: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/57845026/full-legal I have no idea why one wouldn't instantly go ahead and install this extension /s
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Re: Show HN: Convert your LinkedIn profile to a resume
#17Is this better than the "save to pdf" feature on your profile in LinkedIn?
Yes, it scrapes your data and retains it an undefined amount of time and also feeds it into an OpenAI LLM: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/57845026/full-legal I have no idea why one wouldn't instantly go ahead and install this extension /s
We are very clear about you sharing your data, requiring you to select a checkbox. And we are compliant with both LinkedIn's and Chrome Web Stores terms about user data.
Also, we do not scrape any data explicitly. At no point in time do we read data from the linkedin api nor html.
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#18It froze for me. Stuck on this screen: https://imgur.com/a/CH30zoK
hmm weird, do you mind sharing your profile? Or try refreshing that page it could be a cloudflare issue... we have to protect against the endpoint to avoid financial ddos.
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#19Does anyone still enjoy writing, rewriting and designing their own CV by hand, for example using Latex? Shouldn't it be a signature, a testament to your sense of individualism and craftsmanship?
I stopped caring about that when companies started using Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to evaluate resumes based on keywords and other silly criteria without ever having a person actually review it.
Fair. But when you land the face to face interview with the hiring manager and peers, I think it's still good to have a nicely designed CV. And with nicely designed I don't mean lots of graphics and colors, but something that was thought out to read well.
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#20Does anyone still enjoy writing, rewriting and designing their own CV by hand, for example using Latex? Shouldn't it be a signature, a testament to your sense of individualism and craftsmanship?
This is one of the things I enjoy the most these days, but I also had quite a lot of fun with it back in the day... I just looks for designs online and then I reproduce as much as I can using other tooling... I enjoy doing this for anything print, like magazines and corporate image documents too...
Every now and then, I get an itch from the old days of desktop publishing. A while back there was release of a "lost" Bram Stoker short that got transcribed to text (several players using different methods posting their results on github). I fired up InDesign which I had never used, and did a book layout of it. All because I was bored and wanted to think about something other than ; {} [] for a bit. At least I didn't have to fire up the Quadra to run Quark!