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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.
I respect the hustle, but why do I have to create an account and login with GitHub to see anything? I recently had to rewrite my resume and found it surprisingly difficult to find any decent templates, so I created my own in Google Docs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LoPO2A_mZXJTpn90K27FPKU3... . Anyone reading this is welcome to use it.
I made mine as an SPA with Vuejs and some CSS libraries, then converted it to PDF with the print option. It felt appropriate. Material.io style resume, bam! I used it for the first time last week, and I am on to the second round of interviews. [ When all else fails, use your dev skills ]
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I agree. I'm not going to sign up without seeing a sample.
there is a sample on the landing page!
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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.
I don't see how. Last name is same usually for both father/son, and you can't figure anything out from first name. It's almost useless information I think, except maybe differentiate between two people with same name, which is useful only for government applications I think.
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... I don't get it. I mean, I get the joke, but not how it supports your argument.
I'm sorry... I mean, really? I thought you were just trolling originally, playing up the "I don't see race" trope. Well, I'll spell it out very plainly for you then: A profile picture facilitates hiring discrimination on the basis of age, sex, race, beauty, and possibly other factors as well. You'd get into trouble if you wrote "I am a young, white, normal-looking man" on the top of your resume... but maybe if you ju…
I agree with you. That's why I said I don't see why anyone other than an actor should put their photo on a resume, because it makes it easier for the reviewer to discriminate based on illegitimate reasons.
Perhaps there's a misunderstanding? This discussion thread has been about why anyone should include a photo, not why they shouldn't. Unless they want to attempt to benefit from such discrimination by having a favored appearance, which we want to discourage.
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As someone who has read a lot of resumes, I really like this! It gets to the core points quickly. My only suggestion would be to put the names of the companies in italic or differentiate it in some way. When I read a resume, the very first thing I do is scan the name of the companies you've worked at to see if I recognize any of them as either a place known for great hires or somewhere I've actually worked. I had to…
> When I read a resume, the very first thing I do is scan the name of the companies you've worked at to see if I recognize any of them as either a place known for great hires or somewhere I've actually worked. Ughh, as someone who went to a state school and spent most of his career toiling away at non-name brand companies, please allow me a moment to shake my fist angrily at you over the Internet! You’ve probably alr…
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Little tip.... You should ensure your HN username doesnt show up with a background check on a google search because when I do that and I see comments like this you dont get a job.
How often are you hiring for that to matter to the average HR user? If you have time to research hr usernames how many resumes are you really getting through in a week?
I interview for the company on a weekly basis
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.
Without having checked it: 1) Does it use templates? If so, resumes will probably look similar to each other, and not stand out from their competition. Is this assumption incorrect? 2) In my opinion, a developer using a resume generator sounds kind of unprofessional or even lazy ("highest quality developer resume in less than 5 minutes"), in contrast to say, using LaTeX (without templates).
I would not think less of an engineer who used standard components.
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I don't see how. Last name is same usually for both father/son, and you can't figure anything out from first name. It's almost useless information I think, except maybe differentiate between two people with same name, which is useful only for government applications I think.
In some parts of India, first names can be very lengthy, and contain lots of information, like: where you're from, your father's name, your grandfather's name, etc.