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

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Post by jfim »

sethammons wrote: post #159
smt88 wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LinkedIn is unusable without faces. It's often the only way to know that you found the person you were searching for. Perhaps this site doesn't need that functionality though.

maybe you see portraits of connections, but something else for those who've yet to connect. Or maybe portraits if it appears that you likely know the person? Similarly, maybe you can search by name or know the names of those you are connected to, but, by default, you don't get a pic or a name. Hmmmm.

The picture still helps to disambiguate which of the three John Smiths that went to University of Foobar was the one that you met at the mixer yesterday.

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

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Post by jacob_rezi »

iwangulenko wrote: post #241

Tech recruiter here. Pros: + Very beautifully designed project + Super readability Big, easy to fix negative: Force people to add months to the years! You only asks the year when someone started in "Work Experience". If I read "2012-2013" I can't tell if someone has been at a place ~12 months or ~1 month. This information is very important. Also, please calculate the durations to allow readers to grasp tenure faster.…

hey there - you might be interested in our product - https://rezi.io

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

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Post by GoToRO »

iwangulenko wrote: post #241

Tech recruiter here. Pros: + Very beautifully designed project + Super readability Big, easy to fix negative: Force people to add months to the years! You only asks the year when someone started in "Work Experience". If I read "2012-2013" I can't tell if someone has been at a place ~12 months or ~1 month. This information is very important. Also, please calculate the durations to allow readers to grasp tenure faster.…

"This information is very important."

Years != Experience

...but thanks for confirming the shallowness of the recruiting processes we've all experienced.

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

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Post by ThomPete »

GoToRO wrote: post #263
iwangulenko wrote: post #241

Tech recruiter here. Pros: + Very beautifully designed project + Super readability Big, easy to fix negative: Force people to add months to the years! You only asks the year when someone started in "Work Experience". If I read "2012-2013" I can't tell if someone has been at a place ~12 months or ~1 month. This information is very important. Also, please calculate the durations to allow readers to grasp tenure faster.…

"This information is very important." Years != Experience ...but thanks for confirming the shallowness of the recruiting processes we've all experienced.

thats not how i read the OP

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

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Post by iwangulenko »

GoToRO wrote: post #263
iwangulenko wrote: post #241

Tech recruiter here. Pros: + Very beautifully designed project + Super readability Big, easy to fix negative: Force people to add months to the years! You only asks the year when someone started in "Work Experience". If I read "2012-2013" I can't tell if someone has been at a place ~12 months or ~1 month. This information is very important. Also, please calculate the durations to allow readers to grasp tenure faster.…

"This information is very important." Years != Experience ...but thanks for confirming the shallowness of the recruiting processes we've all experienced.

With "Work experience" I was referring to the field in the Show HN app

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

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Post by milesward »

bmallerd wrote: post #100

Hello from Vancouver! Great work. One piece of feedback - would be great if there was an "import from Linkedin" feature. It seems like a lot of the information has already been populated, and it's annoying to c/p it over. Hit me up if you need some help.

yup needs it, otherwise quite nice!

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

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Post by jhatemyjob »

GoToRO wrote: post #263
iwangulenko wrote: post #241

Tech recruiter here. Pros: + Very beautifully designed project + Super readability Big, easy to fix negative: Force people to add months to the years! You only asks the year when someone started in "Work Experience". If I read "2012-2013" I can't tell if someone has been at a place ~12 months or ~1 month. This information is very important. Also, please calculate the durations to allow readers to grasp tenure faster.…

"This information is very important." Years != Experience ...but thanks for confirming the shallowness of the recruiting processes we've all experienced.

It's a pretty strong signal.

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

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Post by vikin9 »

Looks very nice to get the first impression over a person. There is usually a lot of hints and information in the Internet about how to build such first-impression CV. However, EU companies (maybe elsewhere too?) often ask about second-impression CV with more technical details.

I search for a tool helping you to build your coding experience matrix. Imagine a chart looking similar to Github activity tiles or a spreadsheet, where on the x-axis you present time, and on the y-axis you place the coding languages or technologies that you have used in that time.

Such thing would help telling the interviewer, that you have 3 years of C++ experience, but your last project on this was in 2013. Anyone seen something like this?

edit: grammar & typos

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

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Post by kelnos »

GoToRO wrote: post #263
iwangulenko wrote: post #241

Tech recruiter here. Pros: + Very beautifully designed project + Super readability Big, easy to fix negative: Force people to add months to the years! You only asks the year when someone started in "Work Experience". If I read "2012-2013" I can't tell if someone has been at a place ~12 months or ~1 month. This information is very important. Also, please calculate the durations to allow readers to grasp tenure faster.…

"This information is very important." Years != Experience ...but thanks for confirming the shallowness of the recruiting processes we've all experienced.

So you seriously don't believe that the difference between spending ~1 month or ~12 months or ~24 months at a company (all are possibilities, when a date range reads "2012-2013") isn't important information for a recruiter?

This isn't strictly about experience; it's also about whether someone a company is going to invest time in is going to stick around for a while, or is going to hop around a lot.

But regardless, years worked, when coupled with title/promotion history, is actually a decent proxy for experience. It's not perfect, but neither is the resume itself. No one is going to make a hiring decision solely on it, but it's a signal that can be useful.

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

iwangulenko wrote: post #241

Tech recruiter here. Pros: + Very beautifully designed project + Super readability Big, easy to fix negative: Force people to add months to the years! You only asks the year when someone started in "Work Experience". If I read "2012-2013" I can't tell if someone has been at a place ~12 months or ~1 month. This information is very important. Also, please calculate the durations to allow readers to grasp tenure faster.…

> + Super readability

I disagree; it uses a fraction of the available screen size (optimized for mobile?), the font is small, and worse, it's grey-on-white; the contrast is too low.

I also did a bamboozle; turns out the profile on the linked page here is not actually the demo, but just an image / screenshot on a landing page. Didn't really clock that it was a landing page; maybe link directly to the example and update the landing page to not start with a product screenshot, but with the marketing blurb instead (Disclaimer: I'm not a designer, but I've seen other product landing pages that use large screenshots to highlight segments of the product along with short descriptions of the feature)

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