Not that I use it, but do really like this initiative to make resumes machine readable:
Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
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Photographs on a Resume, I've heard is a standard in the EU. That's what I was told when I was applying to Jobs in Germany. And it's pretty common here in India as well. But I completely understand where you are coming from. Photos can cause bias in the hiring process and it's certainly debatable. That's why I've provided the option to either add an image or not have one, and designed the templates especially to fit…
Not at all, yes it is a requirement in traditional German companies, but not in most EU countries nor in German companies that are now fully digital in their hiring process. In Portugal and Spain for example, it is long not welcomed that people send resumes with pictures.
It's a requirement to have your picture on your resume? That seems rather antiquated and bias producing...
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
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In the US a resume with a photo will be discarded immediately by most companies. I suspect companies have written policies that say no photo resumes allowed. The simple reason is that a photo just opens up a ton of bias accusations. There is literally 0 information a photo can provide that can be legally used to make hiring decisions, but on the other hand, there are a whole host of biases it can introduce.
Then you shouldn,t be allowed to put your name on your application either.
This is why some people choose to use their initials.
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#54Very nice other than the picture. I suppose one could upload their family crest or something.
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#55This is a very nice resume builder. I like the aesthetics and will port my current LaTeX CV over to this next time I am on job search. Would be awesome if you could add "export as HTML" functionality so it can be hosted on webpages too.
I've been getting that feature request a lot, and if you are aware of any libraries that would print out minified HTML+CSS of a certain div/section, please do let me know. That's what I'm struggling with here since the whole thing is in React + Tailwind CSS, very connected to the build process.
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#56Not that I use it, but do really like this initiative to make resumes machine readable: https://jsonresume.org/
I did check out JSON resume, a bit later after I made this, but the schema that I'm using it's too far fetched from what JSON Resume uses, and with a few tweaks, like adding an ID field, or adding heading tags (so that resume sections headings can be in any language of the user's choice). The JSON I've made is a bit more flexible that way, specific to the application. Maybe this could be the new standard? (hehe)
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#57Do you support a feature like importing data from jsonresume.org.
One nice thing about jsonresume is the json data is hosted in gist and once I append it to jsonresume.org/registry[github handle], I can view my resume directly in browser.
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#58Love the app and approach to privacy.
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not at all, yes it is a requirement in traditional German companies, but not in most EU countries nor in German companies that are now fully digital in their hiring process. In Portugal and Spain for example, it is long not welcomed that people send resumes with pictures.
It's a requirement to have your picture on your resume? That seems rather antiquated and bias producing...
For very traditional companies, yes.
You even have photography shops specialized in doing CV photos.
https://www.studioline.de/fotoshootings-und-preise/bewerbung...
For certain of them you will also get points, if the CV is delivered in a nice portfolio folder, and there are whole sites dedicate to how you should organise the contents of it.
https://www.die-bewerbungsschreiber.de/bewerbungsmappe
Thankfully due to the uniformization of employment rules across UE and the fight against discrimination, that is slowly going away, specially in digital industry where you just get to send a PDF or fill out a form, instead of that bureaucratic process.
But if you are applying to a company where work colleges still talk to each other with formal "Sie" after working together for decades alongside each other, then expect that process to still be the way how everything rolls.
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#60Do you support a feature like importing data from jsonresume.org. One nice thing about jsonresume is the json data is hosted in gist and once I append it to jsonresume.org/registry[github handle], I can view my resume directly in browser.
The structure of JSON I've designed is a bit better than JSON Resume as it has options to customize headings for the sections, this allows for multilingual resumes with no development effort necessary.
But I will definitely look into the option in which uploading a Gist or something would generate the resume as well, it shouldn't be that difficult.