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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…
Click "View example" and 1, 2, and 3 will go away.
And I'd also add the ability to have generic sections or entries. Something for lists especially. For instance languages or certifications, or certifications.
Andy, congratulations on shipping a product! It's a good idea and using .cv for CVs is a nice touch. That said, here's how your website looks on my 27" 2560x1440 display: https://i.imgur.com/5dsRIlN.png I'm sorry, but I have to be harsher than usual with my (granted, unsolicited) feedback now because you've been a designer for 11 years and I find your design - to be blunt - inconsiderate and inconsistent. I hope you…
Why are you being an asshole? Seems Inconsiderate. You can remove those "Seems Inconsiderate" and still give feedback.
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Would you be able to provide a link to the FRESH format you mention? What other structured resume formats are there in widespread use?
In Europe, EUROPASS is not uncommon: https://europa.eu/europass/en/create-europass-cv
It is well structured, people know what to expect, it's machine readable... Personally, I like it a lot, as opposed to some flashy website PDF that an applicant thinks it's amazing, but it takes me extra 30s to find a piece of data on it.
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,…
Cool but... no language skills? If this is tailored for the states, it kind of makes sense - but there are different realities (such as Switzerland), where being bilingual / trilingual is an huge asset to the skillset (:
For example currently there is a 'writing' section, but as a researcher you want 'publications' (which is pretty much the same, but names matters).
Andy, congratulations on shipping a product! It's a good idea and using .cv for CVs is a nice touch. That said, here's how your website looks on my 27" 2560x1440 display: https://i.imgur.com/5dsRIlN.png I'm sorry, but I have to be harsher than usual with my (granted, unsolicited) feedback now because you've been a designer for 11 years and I find your design - to be blunt - inconsiderate and inconsistent. I hope you…
Why are you being an asshole? Seems Inconsiderate. You can remove those "Seems Inconsiderate" and still give feedback.
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Not a linkedin fan and I like the idea of focusing on what people use / want and not on what they don't. That said, I suspect you underestimate the importance of pictures in terms of memory building and many other networking steps.
yet unless you were an actor resumes didn't have pictures attached for well forever.
If anything, a picture is a loss of historically available visual data on a hire.
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+ If there is a downloadable version of CV that will be helpful, maybe LaTeX pdf download?
+ Adapt the JSON Resume[1] schema
[1] - https://jsonresume.org/
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…
They're definitely overused in a lot of designs. They can be useful to portray some information at a glance in some data-heavy designs, but I don't find them helpful here -- I find them distracting. Comparison CV with/without faces: https://i.imgur.com/u6FVLqr.png
It's also useless to the vast majority of readers, but since it is useful to some, a better option would be to have "X connections" (or "X colleagues") note that expands into a list on click. Color it gray, right-align and you now have a secondary info for those who need it, but out of the way for those who don't.