Quick extraction, nice resume formatting and free which is cool. I know LinkedIn depreciated their free resume builder.
Show HN: Convert your LinkedIn profile to a resume
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#22Does 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 mine by hand using plain HTML+CSS (using A4.css, then rendered to a 2-page PDF) and my employer remarked that it was a sign of attention to detail and care that many other candidates won't even bother with.
I'd argue I spent more time trying to fit everything in two neat pages than actually writing down the resume.
At least it shows I know flexbox, or something. It's mostly a backend position anyway.
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#23Is this better than the "save to pdf" feature on your profile in LinkedIn?
Yea you get an ATS friendly template that isn’t a colored doubled column resume
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#24Does 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?
Unfortunately, I've found a negative correlation between CV creativity and candidate quality.
I've got various theories as to why, but in my experience most people with non-standard resumes have turned out to be weaker candidates than people who just type their stuff into a standard template with something approaching the STAR format.
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#25Does 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?
Nope. It's a list of shit that I've done, organized in the most effective way to get someone to hire me.
(I hope that) I'm a far more interesting person than my resume would suggest. Unfortunately, no one hiring engineers would put that at the top of the list.
I've interviewed enough people to know what matters, so I highlight that. The fact that I once fell asleep underwater will have to come up at another time.
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#26Is 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
I'm not sure how one would get "AI-Enhanced Professional Writing" without feeding it into an LLM. This isn't underhanded, it's literally the product being offered.
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#27Looks interesting and could not have come at a more convenient time for me (.. unfortunetaly). I’ll give it a try. Thanks
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#28Looks interesting and could not have come at a more convenient time for me (.. unfortunetaly). I’ll give it a try. Thanks
Hopefully it at least provides a nice place to start from! And saves you time...
If it comes out any decent, lmk and we'll give you some credits for the paid service. The UX around tailoring resumes isnt as intuitive.
You can do some free tailoring on the home page as well, this ux is straight forward: cvgist.com
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm not sure anyone more than glanced at my resume for the past few decades. My interviews were basically through people I had worked with in some fashion.
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#30Does 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?
Unfortunately, I've found a negative correlation between CV creativity and candidate quality. I've got various theories as to why, but in my experience most people with non-standard resumes have turned out to be weaker candidates than people who just type their stuff into a standard template with something approaching the STAR format.
Real pros are busy solving real problems in my experience, taking days or weeks to craft a resume doesn't even occur to people at the top typically. I've gotten high level jobs without submitting a resume, application or almost anything else because the exec recruiters did all of the leg work for me. I think a lot of high performers are familiar with that too.