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Re: Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

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Post by avaika »

vilvadot wrote: post #24
user_50123890 wrote: post #20

the problems with resume generators are * privacy: if it's not client-side only, how do I know you're not saving all my data and selling it to advertisers recruiters spammers etc? * popularity: a random recruiter pulls up two applications and they both have the exactly same template. this is probably a bad thing. best case scenario you become less unique and more forgettable, worst case scenario they think you're a l…

Completely see your point in the privacy aspect, but it is really difficult to offer a good user experience with a project like this without storing data. I don't even consider selling data as part of a business model for my projects but I understand that is opaque to the user and not everyone is like this. On the second argument, I assume recruiters are seeing tons of resumes presented in the same package daily. I d…

Moreover, as a person who participated in hiring a lot, a unique design for every CV isn't something I'd be happy with. The more it unified, the easier to scan the paper for the things I'm looking for.

Re: Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

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Post by vilvadot »

ItsOfficial wrote: post #31

This is really cool; I love the slick interface! Some of your templates look vaguely familiar though. https://realporthub.herokuapp.com *Edited for positivity. This is legit cool.

Thanks for the love!

I designed the templates taking inspiration on what friends showed me, what found online as well as my previous resumes.

To be completely honest its the first time I see that website! But I can see how the black sidebar one looks similar, but they all use pretty common heavily used design patterns.

Re: Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

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Post by vilvadot »

brianpgordon wrote: post #39

Just a suggestion: I think it would be a good idea to showcase the variety of your available designs up-front, without requiring a signup. I imagine that a big reservation people will have is that they won't want their resume to be recognizable as "one of the three templates offered by that resume generator." You don't have to show a full PDF sample, but just a gallery showing that there is a large crowd of designs o…

Thanks for the tip, some people seem to think the same, so that definetly goes into the TO-DO list.

Re: Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

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Post by djsumdog »

A friend of mine had a graphical resume she made in Illustrator and it inspired me to learn Illustrator myself and make this:

https://penguindreams.org/files/2018-SumitKhanna-Resume.pdf

I like it, and it's got me some good roles (probably also kept me from some roles as I'm sure some threw it in the trash thinking it smelled of marketing rubbish; but I still like it so whateves), but it's also a pain to update.

I looked at adapting HackMyResume (listed in the comments) and got somethings into the standard JSON format, but I wanted to keep my timeline and getting it to work programmatically was way more difficult than I thought. Someone provided this answer on StackExchange for Laytex, but I never got things to lineup correctly and sorta gave up:

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/183046/how-do-i-deve...

Every time I think about doing it programmatically, I start down a path, get frustrated and realize I need something now, and end up just updating the old one in Illustrator. I hesitate to use a tool like this since mine looks unique and don't want anyone to recognize it comes from a standard template. It's still pretty neat though and I like the idea of allowing a preview with a watermark as a means to attempt to monetize it.

Re: Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

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Post by aurbano »

I use LaTeX for my resume and it has been the best experience so far. My content is super simple, and technically I could change the format whenever (although I'd have to learn LaTeX to modify the template, but I'm sure it's not too difficult).

Nowadays I use Overleaf's online tex editor, so I don't even need tex installed to update it.

Re: Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

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Post by ItsOfficial »

vilvadot wrote: post #42
ItsOfficial wrote: post #31

This is really cool; I love the slick interface! Some of your templates look vaguely familiar though. https://realporthub.herokuapp.com *Edited for positivity. This is legit cool.

Thanks for the love! I designed the templates taking inspiration on what friends showed me, what found online as well as my previous resumes. To be completely honest its the first time I see that website! But I can see how the black sidebar one looks similar, but they all use pretty common heavily used design patterns.

Definitely! There's only so much room to maneuver on resume layouts as it is.

One of the, if no THE, most important things I found was the machine readability of a resume. We could build generators that spit beautiful resumes all day but they wouldn't ever get in front of a human to care.

Re: Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

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Post by robohoe »

djsumdog wrote: post #38
rileyt wrote: post #29

Photos should not be included on resumes sent to most American companies. They are a huge source of bias in the the hiring process and will either be rejected or have the photo removed immediately.

But there are markets where they are expected. In Germany, your resume has a good chance of being discarded if it doesn't display a photo. That has to be kept in mind when making tools like this. They seem to have templates both with and without photos.

Is there a reason why a photo should be included?

Re: Show HN: I made a resume generator for developers

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Post by sezna »

aurbano wrote: post #45

I use LaTeX for my resume and it has been the best experience so far. My content is super simple, and technically I could change the format whenever (although I'd have to learn LaTeX to modify the template, but I'm sure it's not too difficult). Nowadays I use Overleaf's online tex editor, so I don't even need tex installed to update it.

Would you be interested in sharing your template? I used to use TeX, but the available templates never interested me, and I didn't have the time to DiY a good one.
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