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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

richeyryan wrote: post #22

For 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.

Another data point: your existing CV. Most people have one. Might not be good, but I'm sure some it's content could be used.

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

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Post by em-bee »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #167
em-bee wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it doesn't, but in germany that's a small minority of cases. and even germans who would want to preferably hire other germans would not worry about that case as long as one parent is german. you have to keep in mind that germany has a strong fear of history repeating itself and has strong laws to prevent that. so any hint of xenophobia in the hiring process could be a PR or legal nightmare for a company. if photos on…

Germany does outlaw requesting photos on a job application, so they clearly see some kind of problem with it. But attitudes today are not the ones to look at when trying to figure out why it became a common practice in the past.

yup, i noticed that. things are changing. however, i was arguing about the reason why the practice started. and i still strongly doubt that racism is the one. not that there aren't racist germans, but because with a few exceptions in germany a picture doesn't tell anything more about race that a name wouldn't already tell.

if i were to speculate for the real reason then it is whether the applicant looks presentable. german office culture is rather uptight. it is also likely that it started on the candidate side, and that people realized that including a picture would make them stand out more.

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

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Post by grogenaut »

You say "For one year" but you don't say what that means. I don't know if it's avilable for download for a year, that it keeps syncing for a year, or if you retain license to the design and I can use it without paying you for one year even if I say make a PDF of it and edit that going forward. So some terms and conditions, as annoying as they are, would be helpful, since I don't actually know what I'm buying here. I think you do know.

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

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Post by em-bee »

mfoy_ wrote: post #170
em-bee wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it doesn't, but in germany that's a small minority of cases. and even germans who would want to preferably hire other germans would not worry about that case as long as one parent is german. you have to keep in mind that germany has a strong fear of history repeating itself and has strong laws to prevent that. so any hint of xenophobia in the hiring process could be a PR or legal nightmare for a company. if photos on…

"If X was a problem it would already be outlawed" is so riddled with fallacies...

you are right. that was kind of a cheap shot. my apologies.
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