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

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

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Post by tamana »

sourc3 wrote: post #18

One thing that I really wanted to do for hiring is to be able to put resumes on top of each other in a tool and slice and dice over time periods to see how a person's career has evolved be it in terms of companies they worked for, skills they picked up etc. Does anyone else feel the same need? Storing the resumes in a queryable format is a good first step towards my dream :)

Why? For fun, or because it helps you make a good hiring decision?

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

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Post by TranquilMarmot »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #16

but...if I already have my CV in LaTeX why would I need it in this?

My resume is in LaTeX and I love it and its easy to edit and it looks beautiful... but some jobs (and I'm not kidding here) will only accept resumes in an MS Word .doc format. I can't tell you how much butchering I had to to do get my resume in Word to look close to how nice it looks as a PDF.

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

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Post by sourc3 »

tamana wrote: post #22
sourc3 wrote: post #18

One thing that I really wanted to do for hiring is to be able to put resumes on top of each other in a tool and slice and dice over time periods to see how a person's career has evolved be it in terms of companies they worked for, skills they picked up etc. Does anyone else feel the same need? Storing the resumes in a queryable format is a good first step towards my dream :)

Why? For fun, or because it helps you make a good hiring decision?

It would really save me time in understanding who to talk to first. Would it impact the final decision? No. But it would certainly help me prioritize candidates. It is really time consuming to go through 120 resumes to see who you want to talk to first (especially when you also have a day job of delivering software).

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

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Post by avn2109 »

peteretep wrote: post #12
belzebub wrote: post #10

I would love for there to be a formalized CV standard to avoid having to reenter the info on your resume into a job application.

There's more than one. If you can solve parsing CVs/resumes in to standardised formats reliably, you'll get bought by an ATS for a trazillion dollars.

I usually think of myself as someone with an above-average tolerance for unpleasant shlep work, but that sounds like incredibly boring work.

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

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Post by claytonjy »

blowski wrote: post #14

It seems to do a great job for what it claims to do, but I don't really understand the need for such a tool. How often do you update your CV that you need an automated tool to do it? And why would you need it in 10 different formats?

Ten might be overkill, but I really want to have an html version hosted online as well as a PDF version with the same content and LaTeX-quality typesetting (my current resume is written in LaTeX). There's some hacky tools out there for taking a resume in markdown and making html + pdf, but nothing really satisfactory, so I'm thinking this might be exactly what I've been looking for.

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

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Post by danellis »

TranquilMarmot wrote: post #24
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #16

but...if I already have my CV in LaTeX why would I need it in this?

My resume is in LaTeX and I love it and its easy to edit and it looks beautiful... but some jobs (and I'm not kidding here) will only accept resumes in an MS Word .doc format. I can't tell you how much butchering I had to to do get my resume in Word to look close to how nice it looks as a PDF.

That kind of inflexibility seems like a good signal that you might not want to work there anyway.
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