Also checkout https://jsonresume.org/ not my project but also amazing work
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#12So in a sense, you've made a resume builder you can now put on your resume that you've built with the builder itself? Very meta.
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#13Nice work, Xitang. Curious to know if this supports the JSON Resume format.
Thanks for your kind words. When creating the resume state structure, I have considered making it a JSON Resume format so it is compatible with other JSON Resume as well as tools that built on top of JSON Resume. However, after looking more into JSON Resume's schema, I find it to be a bit more restrictive than I would like, e.g. it includes a startDate and endDate as date type for work experience, but I want to combine both into date so user can type anything they like `June 2022 - Present` or `06/2022 - Present`. Also, for skills, JSON Resume has a very fixed structured but I want to give users the freedom to type anything in any format. Overall, I think JSONResume works well on its own and defines each field very well. But when thinking in product level, these restrictions might pose too much restrictions, so I ultimately create my own custom resume state type.
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#14Just checked out the resume scanner and it’s very nice! I appreciate how it only took a few clicks to get from the home page to a real example with my own resume. It also works much faster than the resume parsers I’ve used before (most of which take on the order of 10 seconds just to get from the upload screen to a parsed output). One minor nit is that I think the resume scanner deserves its own button on the front p…
Thanks so much for your kind words. Great feedback on the resume parser being not as noticeable on the home page. I just created an issue to track this feedback: https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume/issues/3 . I initially think people might be more interested in using the resume builder so I haven't thought about making the resume parser more clear. Would you mind sharing more about your use case of the resume sca…
Yeah, I see what you mean. In my case it is because I use LaTeX to create my resume, and my main concern is just that in some ATS systems it doesn't parse correctly and it would be nice to know when I'm making the resume, rather than when I apply for the job. For people without an existing opinionated workflow (likely the bulk), the resume scanner would be a good way to help them understand the value proposition of a unified builder that works with most ATS systems by design, rather than as an afterthought (which seems to be the case with most resume builders online besides this one).
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#15Interesting. I put my LinkedIn generated resume into the parser, and it only parsed it about 1/2 right.
Which makes me wonder, who is doing the wrong thing here? Is LinkedIn generating a bad resume, or is the ATS parser not able to parse what I assume should be pretty standard, as I imagine a lot of people use that feature of LinkedIn.
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#16I'm only asking because you reference it specifically, but were you actually able to find a copy of ISO 32000??
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#17Also checkout https://jsonresume.org/ not my project but also amazing work
I vouch for this
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#18Awesome work! The builder is super comfy and intuitive. Just one request - would really like to mark in bold parts of a sentence.
Thanks so much for your support and kind words. I just created an issue to document this feedback: https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume/issues/4. Can you share more about your use case of mark in bold in parts of a sentence and what are the things you would like to mark in bold?
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#19IMO if you're targeting software developers you might want to consider including the github or similar link to their portfolio in the top section. It is one of the more important items to include, more so than linked-in for devs.
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#20So in a sense, you've made a resume builder you can now put on your resume that you've built with the builder itself? Very meta.
Yeah haha, and it is true. I actually personally use this resume template to apply for jobs during my last job search and was invited to interview with companies like Dropbox, Meta, Amazon. Now I translate the template to be creatable with the builder so I can edit it easier and other folks can use it too.