Love the app and approach to privacy.
Thank you so much :)
Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
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Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
While we're on Germany, why is it common practice in the German press to specify the age of any person in a print article? Even when it is irrelevant to the content of the article?
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#63This is literally the best thing ever. I love the fact that you have everything I could ever want - colors, refresh the screen right away, and different designs too. Bonus points for keeping everything offline because if I use this I would be afraid you would be keeping track of my keystrokes as I type in all of my personal information into the form. < - Please don't ever do this, anyone who may read this comment.
Hey there! Thank you so much :) That was exactly what I was going for, complete privacy and complete customization possibilities. Plus, a lot of my friends keep saying that I have good resume design skills as I've made mine, and I used to release templates as PSD or Figma documents previously, but not everyone could edit them, so that's why I made this :) I would never ever make it monetized or put ads or collect per…
> and that's just to see how many people are using the site (to fuel my ego :D)
Depending on whether you have access to your server logs, consider using something like GoAccess [1] instead.
Kudos for your project :)
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#64Not 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)
Yeah I really like this better. JSON is terrible to write manually.
Still I respect their effort to try. Machines are already parsing resumes for keywords anyway.
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
While we're on Germany, why is it common practice in the German press to specify the age of any person in a print article? Even when it is irrelevant to the content of the article?
No idea actually.
I also always found it strange.
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#66This is amazing, thanks for making this for free.
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#67Ah, I did something similar at some point when looking for a job. Only has a single template though. But my main concern was being able to export to both word and pdf, because recruiters always want word documents. https://resumedrone.com/ I really like the way the templates look on yours :) May have to try and implement live preview myself.
That's actually a pretty great attempt. I have a lot to learn from your application as well. There are quite a lot of sections that I have omitted, which might be helpful for others. What did you use to build the app with? If React, maybe you can consider contributing to this project and making it as good as yours? :)
Yeah, it’s all React, well, mostly React, the Word and PDF rendering happens on an express backend.
I doubt I’m going to have any time to contribute, but I’ll have a look.
Did you base your schema on jsonresume? I did that with a few extensions.
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#68Ah, I did something similar at some point when looking for a job. Only has a single template though. But my main concern was being able to export to both word and pdf, because recruiters always want word documents. https://resumedrone.com/ I really like the way the templates look on yours :) May have to try and implement live preview myself.
On MSWord format vs PDF: Whilst interviewing people, if I know their resume came via a recruiter, I tend to ask for their real one. The reason is not to cut the recruiter out of the process. Rather, it is to make sure the resume (and the questions about its content) are based on an unaltered version. Sadly, some recruiters will modify a resume to fit the position description, and the process, make claims on behalf of…
Oh, I agree as a hiring manager, but as an applicant I just cannot be bothered to keep replying that I don’t have a word version.
I used to say they can get it in either PDF or JSON ;)
Re: Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I remember a lot of this from when I lived in Germany.
I also seem to remember -- can you either correct me, or confirm this -- in these same companies that expect the photo resume, don't they expect your full salary history as well?
There is a saying, "He who talks money first loses." In the US, I'm certain that I've never seen a resume with salary figures.