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Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by MaxBarraclough » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 2:28 AM UTC

gdsdfe wrote: post #161

vbtemp wrote: post #110

Definitely beautiful and would love for something simple and clean to eat LinkedIn's lunch. I don't have much to add in addition to everyone else except this: I am really disturbed by the common meme of faces-inside-circles. Why do we need faces? It just distracts from the content. I love the idea of being able to link former colleagues together - that's neat - but I'm very anti-face and there are any number of ways…

It's actually the norm in some parts of the world to have pictures on resumes

True, but I think there's a strong case to be made that it shouldn't be. It (further) opens the door to subtle biases on the grounds of ethnicity, age, and attractiveness, and has no obvious upside.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by hcurtiss » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 2:40 AM UTC

vbtemp wrote: post #110

Definitely beautiful and would love for something simple and clean to eat LinkedIn's lunch. I don't have much to add in addition to everyone else except this: I am really disturbed by the common meme of faces-inside-circles. Why do we need faces? It just distracts from the content. I love the idea of being able to link former colleagues together - that's neat - but I'm very anti-face and there are any number of ways…

All else being equal, isn't attractiveness also a marketable asset in most if not all industries?

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 2:44 AM UTC

Shoue wrote: post #172

vbtemp wrote: post #110

Definitely beautiful and would love for something simple and clean to eat LinkedIn's lunch. I don't have much to add in addition to everyone else except this: I am really disturbed by the common meme of faces-inside-circles. Why do we need faces? It just distracts from the content. I love the idea of being able to link former colleagues together - that's neat - but I'm very anti-face and there are any number of ways…

Around ten direct replies to your post and I still don't feel like the reason why pictures on CVs is a bad idea has been explained explicitly. I'm in the UK, where race, age, gender, religion, disability are among protected characteristics. As such, that information, should it be included, is often either stripped from the CV automatically or the CV discarded entirely to obviate the risk of being accused of discrimin…

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Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by ehwhyreally » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 2:51 AM UTC

vbtemp wrote: post #110

Definitely beautiful and would love for something simple and clean to eat LinkedIn's lunch. I don't have much to add in addition to everyone else except this: I am really disturbed by the common meme of faces-inside-circles. Why do we need faces? It just distracts from the content. I love the idea of being able to link former colleagues together - that's neat - but I'm very anti-face and there are any number of ways…

all the people standing up for faces are attractive, i myself like my face on a resume only because ive seen in the past how managers sort resumes, most of the time the face pics go to the top.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by dimgl » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 2:52 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #146

This is a good start, but I'm not a huge fan of this the way it is now. First, the font is tiny for my old eyes. Not all of us, especially hiring managers, are still in their 20s and can read these tiny fonts. I measured it with a ruler and the text is 1mm tall. Also, the font is gray on white, which is pretty but hard to read. In contrast, Linkedin is three times bigger and black on white, much easier to read. Secon…

These are fantastic criticisms. Almost exactly what I was thinking verbatim.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by robmay » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 2:56 AM UTC

Any thoughts about making this an open platform where people own their own data but apps are built on top of it? And users can design their own UIs too? I'd be an early paying customer of that API.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by mjgs » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 2:58 AM UTC

This looks nice, I like it.

One thing that worries me about CV social networks is the possibility of that site going away or loosing it’s relevance. Once you have lots of comments/recommendations etc, loosing that could really cause issues to your employability.

I don’t know what the solution is, maybe some type of distributed crypto bitcoin setup?

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by umeshunni » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:05 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #146

This is a good start, but I'm not a huge fan of this the way it is now. First, the font is tiny for my old eyes. Not all of us, especially hiring managers, are still in their 20s and can read these tiny fonts. I measured it with a ruler and the text is 1mm tall. Also, the font is gray on white, which is pretty but hard to read. In contrast, Linkedin is three times bigger and black on white, much easier to read. Secon…

In addition to being tiny, the font color used for the text is a light gray that just hurts my 40 year old eyes. As a hiring manager, I'd pass this and just read a PDF or LinkedIn.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by austhrow743 » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:06 AM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #146

This is a good start, but I'm not a huge fan of this the way it is now. First, the font is tiny for my old eyes. Not all of us, especially hiring managers, are still in their 20s and can read these tiny fonts. I measured it with a ruler and the text is 1mm tall. Also, the font is gray on white, which is pretty but hard to read. In contrast, Linkedin is three times bigger and black on white, much easier to read. Secon…

I think the font thing might be a failure in displaying properly rather than an intentional choice. It's no smaller than the font here on HN or anywhere else for me.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by gilli » Tue, Jan 05, 2021, 3:13 AM UTC

_andychung wrote: post #2

I started read.cv when transitioning from full time to freelance design in July. I wanted an easy to update 'about me' page to link from my website and bio – something simpler than LinkedIn and more dynamic than a PDF. Design wise I focused on legibility and tried to give projects/side projects equal weight to things like education and work experience. A few unique features: tagging collaborators in your experiences,…

> Design wise I focused on legibility and tried to give projects/side projects equal weight to things like education and work experience. A few unique features: tagging collaborators in your experiences, status updates, and print optimized profiles.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I think your definition of legibility is maybe a bit off, the font is too small to be considered legible by any accessibility standard. I have 20/20 vision but I struggle to read some of it. The color contrast is also failing in some cases, and since the font is so small and thin, the contrast needs to be increased above what color contrast would suggest.

Also, when I wanted to check the size of the font (which is set at 14px but that seems equivalent to 11-12px for the common fonts like Arial) I realized I can't actually select any of the text, which I think might be important a website like this. You are creating some mask with a different div that might be blocking the clicks. You can create a mask like that with simpler html and css that won't have a problem with clicks.

Otherwise it's a nice project and it looks like you got a good traction already. I hope this helps.