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

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Post by duiker101 »

user5994461 wrote: post #64
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.

Not only, it's also a awful format generally.

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

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Post by Jhsto »

For some reason, it won't show my first job. Console reports this error:

    clean.js:53 No Volunteering
    clean.js:65 No Languages
    clean.js:111 Removing last job.
    9q4fcy0u894wfpt4om65ddw5d:1332 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'contains' of null
        at s.onWindowClick (ecqz9oxm6n7j7lgxh46b6hgxw:2735)
        at p.run (37faxrlgmrjbfus14qcvdqns0:3786)
        at p.join (37faxrlgmrjbfus14qcvdqns0:3788)
        at Function.u.join (37faxrlgmrjbfus14qcvdqns0:6776)
        at 37faxrlgmrjbfus14qcvdqns0:6779
Also, if you continue development do please consider a nice way to parse projects! As a programmer, I have plenty of those with outbound URLs.

All in all, good work, will definitely use this once I apply for a job!

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

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Post by mitchas »

Jhsto wrote: post #72

For some reason, it won't show my first job. Console reports this error: clean.js:53 No Volunteering clean.js:65 No Languages clean.js:111 Removing last job. 9q4fcy0u894wfpt4om65ddw5d:1332 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'contains' of null at s.onWindowClick (ecqz9oxm6n7j7lgxh46b6hgxw:2735) at p.run (37faxrlgmrjbfus14qcvdqns0:3786) at p.join (37faxrlgmrjbfus14qcvdqns0:3788) at Function.u.join (37faxrlgmrjbfu…

Hmm. Strange error. That Uncaught TypeError is unrelated. That happens when you click any element on the page because I removed a ton of the LinkedIn code and haven't been able to figure out where that's coming from yet, but it shouldn't affect how it works.

How many jobs do you have on your profile? Is it only not showing the first (newest/current) job? Or is it not showing your first job as in first on your profile (oldest)?

When it loads, it places everything onto the resume, then checks the height to make sure it'll fit on a single page, and if it doesn't fit, it removes items until it does fit.

So it looks to me like it removed your oldest job on your profile to get it to fit. I'm planning on making it more customizable - let people choose which items to remove to make it fit.

But also yes! I too have a bunch of projects I usually include on my resume, so I will definitely work on grabbing projects and getting them onto the resume.

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

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Post by jedberg »

This is really cool and would have been handy for me in the past.

But these days, if someone needs my resume, I send them to my LinkedIn page. If they say they need something else, I do File->Print to PDF on my LinkedIn page. It that's not good enough, I probably don't want to do business with them or work with them.

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

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Post by mitchas »

palakchokshi wrote: post #55
mitchas wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point :) I changed the wording on the home page now. When I initially put the home page up, I wasn't collecting anything.

What wording did you change? I don't see any mention that you will be storing my email address?

I want to be open about collecting emails. Honestly I have no plan for them... maybe an update newsletter... on my last resume site I made, I think I sent 1 email in the 3 years I had the list of active users.

But I also don't want to just slap something on the home page saying that I collect emails - there's not really any place for it to fit in the design.

I do have it clearly on the TOS and FAQ pages though. I changed the wording on the homepage so people wouldn't think I'm not collecting anything.

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

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Post by kazmo_vilmar »

Funny I stumbled upon this discussion because I just used this pretty cool service called HipRez to revamp my plain resume into a resume website. Has definitely been great for getting my foot in the door with job interviews and responses to job applications.

Check them out here: www.hiprez.com

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

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Post by eksemplar »

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…

Which is a little odd, I mean, if you put it on LinkedIn you already gave it away to corporate data banks. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice feature and all, but I honestly wouldn’t care if it stole any of the info I already decided to make freely available on the internet.

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

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Post by t0mbstone »

Very cool! I've been wanting something like this ever since LinkedIn removed their export functionality.

Only one problem... It only seems to be able to grab my most recent 2 job experience items?

I would very much like the ability to configure it so that I could tell it what parts of my LinkedIn profile I wanted it to include instead of just automatically cherry-picking parts of it.

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