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You get a lot of weird stuff from overseas resumes: photos, religion, gender, marital status, father's name, etc...
Overseas being not America?
Well, I'm not American...
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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.
You get a lot of weird stuff from overseas resumes: photos, religion, gender, marital status, father's name, etc...
Asking for father's name is pretty much India's equivalent of Americans asking "what's your current salary", you use it to judge the person's situation.
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#63I 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.
I use one of these templates: https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/
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#64A 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 loo…
I see you did great on the first page and then ran out of time
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#65Just an FYI if you didn't know this- stackoverflow.com has something _similar_. They have the concept of a developer story with the option to link to two different web versions as well as generating a PDF for you (no frills). e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/cv/leetrout Looks like you've definitely put more effort in to the styles and the thumbnails look nice! I would love to see a small gallery of designs! I'm -1 on p…
I think in that way a picture helps - if someone is biased by only looking at a picture, that's a job you don't want.
This is not usually the case. Initial resume reviews are often done by HR, some algorithm, or at least somebody who is not who you will actually be working with on the day-to-day. It is incredibly difficult to root out all of the biases in the job application process and even automated attempts have failed[1]. It is best to avoid any opportunity for bias to even enter the system. To say that you're okay being rejected from a job due to your appearance because you wouldn't want that job anyway is defeatist and hurts the cause of those who are truly disadvantaged and would very much like to be employed.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I use one of these templates: https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/
Thanks. These look good.
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#67For me, integration with Linkedin would be much more powerful than integration with Github. My Github is full of my experiments and side projects with ReasonML, OCaml and Clojure. My day job is all about building React applications. Also, a better preview of the non-free themes would be nice but I could imagine you are concerned with people extracting the CV without paying.
LinkedIn used to have their Resume builder under LinkedIn Labs. They shut it now. It was pretty cool.
As of now, you can download your profile in PDF format with no choices of templates.
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#68Quick comment - I haven't gone thru the entire site, etc - so maybe you are already aware. I saw the free vs paid options - and the paid being "$30" and I was asking myself "$30 for...how long?" - so I went back (because I didn't want to make a fool of myself before I commented) and read it carefully...and..."oh - for one year of access" Ok - that's fair - but I want to suggest that you make that part a bit more prom…
Thank you cr0sh, that's great feedback.
Actually at first it was very evident $30/year, but I removed it in the last minute because it seemed like a suscription (which is not). Definetly going to make that thing stand out more.
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#69Just 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…
I agree. I'm not going to sign up without seeing a sample.
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#70Is there literally no ways to delete my user account and data ???