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

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Post by hobs »

kirillseva wrote: post #40

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…

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.

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

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Post by croshan »

jimmies wrote: post #11

Honestly, I'd rather have my resume turned into my LinkedIn. My reasoning is that when something comes to LinkedIn, it doesn't come out easily: it's proprietary and it's hostile. So it can't be where you trust to save your primary data.

Makes sense, though I don’t think it’ll happen soon, considering LinkedIn holds a lot more information than the average 1 page resume. I don’t keep all my work experience on my resume.

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

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Post by nkozyra »

dancek wrote: post #31

This looks really nice! Still, the geek in me is a bit unhappy. LinkedIn will change their HTML structure in the future, so this software will break. Fixing it is easy---if you have the source code and access to the server. I tend to pick systems that I think might work for a long time, so this is not optimal. Other than that, I personally wouldn't like to use LinkedIn as my priamry data repository. They're a company…

I suspect it's also brittle if LI does any A/B testing in that regard.

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

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Post by mitchas »

kirillseva wrote: post #40

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…

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.

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

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Post by ta3334445 »

chrisseldo wrote: post #20

> So you're saving and selling my information, then? > No. The information on your LinkedIn profile never leaves LinkedIn - except for your email address, which I am saving to use with some features in the future. I won't sell it, and I won't annoy you with pointless emails. I think it's important to state this on the front page, particularly by the "No strings attached" section. Many would consider collecting their…

I still don't understand why people would give their information/data to LinkedIn. Their tactics over the years have been extremely scummy (harvesting contacts and sending spam is the one that immediately springs to mind).

Its a solution looking for a problem.

A lot of these comments seem pretty dubious too.

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

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Post by palakchokshi »

Does LinkedIn have a different policy regarding scraping LinkedIn pages if you are an extension vs. a crawler? I read recently that LinkedIn is fighting tooth and nail to prevent crawlers from scraping their content.

Just curious.

EDIT: Found this on the user agreement

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement

k. Develop, support or use software, devices, scripts, robots, or any other means or processes (including crawlers, browser plugins and add-ons, or any other technology or manual work) to scrape the Services or otherwise copy profiles and other data from the Services;

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

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Post by icebraining »

ta3334445 wrote: post #46
chrisseldo wrote: post #20

> So you're saving and selling my information, then? > No. The information on your LinkedIn profile never leaves LinkedIn - except for your email address, which I am saving to use with some features in the future. I won't sell it, and I won't annoy you with pointless emails. I think it's important to state this on the front page, particularly by the "No strings attached" section. Many would consider collecting their…

I still don't understand why people would give their information/data to LinkedIn. Their tactics over the years have been extremely scummy (harvesting contacts and sending spam is the one that immediately springs to mind). Its a solution looking for a problem. A lot of these comments seem pretty dubious too.

All the info I (and, I suspect, most people) put into LI is explicitly supposed to be public, so why wouldn't I give it to them too?

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

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Post by r3bl »

titanix2 wrote: post #17
clumsysmurf wrote: post #3

It was a sad day when LinkedIn retired the official resume generator. It would be nice if they could at least export some XML for anyone to run with, but I guess its all about locking users into your walled off service.

I read somewhere about an EU regulations coming which would force platforms to provide a way for their users to get their data back. Reimplementing the XML export would be a good way to (partially) comply ahead of time.

That's "data portability" section of the GDPR, coming late May.

The idea behind it is that platforms should provide you with an option to export your data so that you could easily import it to a competing service if you have a desire to do so.

With that said, I signed into my LinkedIn account for the first time in about a year and saw the option to download my data already in my account settings: https://i.imgur.com/bOLqwoJ.png

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