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

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Post by xitang »

t3pfaff wrote: post #61

I have liked the outputs and organization of [Reactive Resume]( https://rxresu.me ) in the past but I have realized it gets parsed unintelligibly by most ATS and seems to rasterize some sections as well. Is there a way to directly import json into the builder on this?

I have looked into Reactive Resume. It is a great tool and an inspiration for this project. How well the resume is parsed depends largely on the format you choose. Two column resume designs look good but aren't ATS friendly. You should be able to get better results with a single column resume. Import from JSON Resume hasn't been supported, but an issue has been created to track it: https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume/issues/12

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

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Post by rckclmbr »

avip wrote: post #84
clnq wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I wrote my last cv in markdown and named it my_name.cv Disappointedly, lots of "resume uploaders" refused to accept my file, even as .txt. Had to retreat back to pdf. Hard times we live in.

I wrote mine in markdown and convert it to pdf (well, first html then pdf). It's worked well

   markdown resume.md > resume.tmp.html
   cat template/header.html resume.tmp.html template/footer.html > resume.html
   cp resume.html resume.tmp.html
   sed -i -e 's/"normal"/"pdf"/g' resume.tmp.html
   xvfb-run -a -s "-screen 0 640x480x16" wkhtmltopdf resume.tmp.html resume.pdf
   rm resume.tmp.html*

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

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Post by xitang »

hmmokidk wrote: post #85

Really amazing! When I tried to re-import what I created it had some issues though... Namely the descriptions got moved around.. and some other stuff. But otherwise this is amazing! I might use my resume I made here.

Thanks so much for your kind words and support! Apologize for the re-import issue, the resume parser is workable but might still have some bugs here and there. Can you elaborate more on how the descriptions got moved around so I can take a closer look?

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

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Post by JoeyBananas »

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…

The optimal approach is to rate yourself high in everything because you can. It is clearly in your best interest to do so.

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

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Post by xitang »

mewonderswhy wrote: post #103

Really impressive work, although I was wondering, could this be made as a static HTML "application"? No NextJS, no ReactJS, not even TypeScript. Pure HTML/JS/CSS hosted statically.

It is definitely possible to build all of these with vanilla HTML/JS/CSS, but it would be much more work to build everything from scratch instead of leveraging frameworks that can speed up development, e.g. react, tailwind.

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

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Post by xitang »

woodylondon wrote: post #86

Overall, I think the project looks great, and the fact that it's open-source is a big plus. However, there are a few issues that I noticed: - The web editor doesn't seem to display pages 2, 3, etc. - The biggest concern I have is how the platform handles the end of a page and page breaks. Specifically, the text seems to be too close to the bottom of the page, with no footer padding. If I were to add a new role to the…

Thanks so much for your kind words and feedback, and for creating the issues on Github: https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume/issues/9

Re-posting my comment from the github issue: Agree that the app is currently buggy for multi page layouts. Its initial target audience is for students and early-career professionals who can fit their experiences in one page, and multi page layouts haven't been well thought and implemented.

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

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Post by keyle »

jedberg wrote: post #15

Interesting. 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.

Not a bug, it's a feature, at least half of what's on linkedin is fabricated! ;)

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

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Post by thomasfromcdnjs »

agumonkey wrote: post #52
pratio wrote: post #11

Also checkout https://jsonresume.org/ not my project but also amazing work

it's cool, you host your json on a github gist and it's available online that said my resume is not working anymore, even though the gist is still there. I wonder if others have the same issue.

The creator here, can help you out. I moved it all to vercel functions running on node 18. Broke a bunch of themes in the process.
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