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Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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Post by xitang »

goncalomb wrote: post #67
xitang wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I apologize for the confusion the statement has caused and comes off as lying. The statement is accurate and is in fact tested & likened by students and employees listed in the logo cloud. I appreciate the feedback that given it is only a handful of us, this statement can give the wrong impressions that it is more widely used than people perceive. I want to keep the project honest, clear and transparent as much as po…

I guess you could just be totally open about it, and change the wording to something like "the open-resume design already helped some people land positions at", then show the logos. That way you are being honest, and doesn't look like a direct endorsement from those companies. You get your logos for "marketing", and you are safe from misinterpretation. IANAL.

Love this suggestion!

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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Post by drekipus »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #60
rosmax_1337 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I have to admit that the claim is more for marketing purpose to make it look impressive. If you are going to be honest about lying by admitting to us that you lied, just state that it was a lie, don't euphemize it as marketing. Otherwise the "honesty" just comes of as manipulation.

It's not a lie if people from those companies are endorsing the product Now, I know from experience, you probably want to hear from their legal team (or have a contract which make it explicit) before putting a company's logo on your website as an endorsement - but I doubt they'll sue you

Just remember, it's not a lie, if you believe it.

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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Post by hansoolo »

Good one! I just tried it out because I need a resume and my old one was done really weirdly in InDesign ages ago.

One thing I noticed was the really weird (I am on Firefox) : When I tried to enter text in the additional box and bullet points were activated it would create a bullet point after every space I pressed....

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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Post by xitang »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #64
xitang wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 combi…

This sounds reasonable. If exporting a JSON resume is not possible, maybe you could support importing one?

Great point. Top of my head, it seems possible and easier to support import from JSON resume instead of export. Just created an issue to keep track of it: https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume/issues/12

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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Post by xitang »

kalverra wrote: post #53

This is great! I enjoyed the breakdown of the ATS logic you use. Did you look at how others like Lever use ATS and replicate that? Or was this a green field build?

Thanks for your support and kind words. I tested the resume design with ATS platforms like greenhouse and lever to ensure they are parsed correctly, but their algorithm remains a black box and I am not aware of how it actually works. The resume parser I created is my attempt to create a simple version of the parser. I would think their approach might be something similar but definitely more sophisticated and better tested, but I hope this simple resume parser can help give some ideas on how your resume perform and what is going on behind the scene, e.g. having explained how it works in the article, it might be more clear why some fancier resume designs, such as two columns resume, are not ATS friendly, since it would require more complicated parsing logics and most platforms might not offer it.

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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Post by xitang »

razemio wrote: post #30

Just as a thought. For me, AsciiDoc was perfectly fine. No modifications needed, and it is compatible with GitHub's build in preview. That's what it could look like: https://github.com/razem-io/resume Also, by no means is this a good resume. It just works for me as a developer. Using it since 7 years to apply for jobs. Did not disappoint yet ;).

Thanks for sharing another great tool! Agree that there are many great tools out there.

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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Post by fbdab103 »

clnq wrote: post #80
linusha wrote: post #65

A general question: What do you all think about this Skill representation as points out of 5 (or 7 or 10 for that matter)? These arbitrary scales always hit me as kind of...useless? There is no frame of reference what a specific amount of points mean. Of course, with this kind of skill-self-description there will always be difficulties, i.e., one does not always know what one does not know etc. But it seems to me tha…

The skill bars or skill meters are completely useless because one person's 10/10 is another person's 2/10. Moreover, the more junior the engineer, the higher they score themselves in their discipline. I am an older engineer and I would rank myself 6-7/10 in most aspects of my work, even if I have architected and built some trend-setting systems in my corner of tech. I have never seen a junior score themselves so low…

It also sickens me when I see a posting stating something like, "Must be an expert in these 6 disparate technologies". Like, I already hesitate to call myself an expert in my bread-and-butter, day-to-day tech stack. Now I have to over-analyze, "Do they mean expert? Is that flexible? Or am I really just that unqualified? Did the hiring manager just spend four seconds putting this together and will take whatever?"
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