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

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Post by lmartel »

matte_black wrote: post #54
ta3334445 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm also inexplicably giving money to LinkedIn. I signed up for their premium plan so long ago, back when it was 200 something a year. They recently shot the price straight through the roof nearly doubling it while removing some features and restricting them to even higher paying tiers. I however, have been grandfathered in to the original price and keep all the original feature set. However, if I quit or cancel my s…

That's not the purpose of grandfathered pricing, they just want to raise prices without upsetting active users.

If you cancel you're not an active user anymore :)

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

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

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.

That was the only thing I still liked about LinkedIn after they retired the network visualization map tool.

https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/01/linkedin-is-quietly-retiri...

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

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Post by kapauldo »

Can this be done without the extension? In other words, could the code run as a js file in web page where the user grabs their own data and then sends that data to the 3rd party server? If so you've got a great workaround to LinkedIns one sided restrictions on stopping scrapers.

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

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Post by user5994461 »

croisillon wrote: post #57

The European Union also has a CV Format, already translated in the 25 (?) European Languages. You first have to enter your resume once (I mainly copy the information I already update on LinkedIn) https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/editors/de/cv/compose and then you get a PDF+XML document which you can send to companies or re-upload to the EU website in order to update it. It's very handy and would be surely easy to a…

Noone in Europe ever used that thing. Don't advise.

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

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Post by wpietri »

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.

I don't understand how you can't understand this. Yes, I have a lot of issues with them. But they are definitely not a solution looking for a problem.

They supposedly have 128 m accounts in the US, and there are circa 150 m total people employed here. Even assuming account inflation, I'm sure the majority of professionals have accounts. Certainly when I'm screening resumes, it's very rare for a person not to be on LinkedIn. They've been going since 2002 and are a profitable business that sold for $26 bn. This should be a sign to you that even if it's not your thing, somebody's getting value.

Paper resumes were a giant pain in the ass. LinkedIn is a pretty obvious solution to the problems with paper resumes, including that they are hard to write, a pain to update, hard to format, impossible to search, and impossible to use in aggregate. This is obviously great for people hiring, but also great for those seeking employment. During a job search, LinkedIn lets you ask questions like, "Who do I know who works at company X? Who do I know who can introduce me to somebody at company X? Who used to work at Company X so I can get the unvarnished truth about what it's like to work there?" Try that with paper resumes.

TL;DR: People use it because it makes finding jobs and/or employees easier than what went before it. Lots of people.

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

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Post by wpietri »

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.

Wait, does the "Save to PDF" option from one's profile no longer work? I see it in the menu, but I'm getting an error.

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

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Post by mitchas »

rhubarbcustard wrote: post #60

Love the look of the landing page, is that a purchased theme you used or created from scratch?

Thanks! I created everything from scratch.

I actually decided to get away from all frameworks for the landing page. It's just simple HTML, Javascript/jQuery, and CSS/LESS.

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

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Post by mitchas »

croshan wrote: post #42
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.

Exactly. That was the hardest part of making this extension... trying to decide what to strip off of peoples' profiles to get it to fit on a single page.

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

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Post by ecesena »

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…

+1 for latex, I use moderncv.

Having the export in latex would be great, my cv is a subset of my linkedin profile, it would be fast to comment out unnecessary sections and re-render the pdf.

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

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Post by mitchas »

ertand wrote: post #58
mitchas wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is it about third-party extensions you don't like? I know many extensions have full access to any site you visit, but I specified LinkedIn for mine, so when you install it, you are warned that it can access all your data on LinkedIn, but no other sites.

Yup, as solotronics said. On Chrome extensions, minor bugs (or minor bugs in the libraries you depend on) might end up having far worse consequences. Read/write access to only linkedin.com can still leak a decent amount of unwanted information in case there's an exploit.

Hmm. I'll have to read into that more.

I don't use any external libraries, I wrote all of the code in the extension, and the only external requests made outside of the extension are to Google Fonts, so I wonder if it'd be possible to infect this extension.

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