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

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Post by jefc1111 »

pratio wrote: post #11

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

Oh I love this project. It made maintaining my CV tolerable. Here's mine, in case anyone wants to see what a finished article looks like: http://geoff-clayton-cv.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ (not currently looking for work though).

I used `sed` in the build pipeline to change the page title on the html version (see line 16 here: https://github.com/jefc1111/cv/blob/master/.github/workflows...). I expect there is a better way though.

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

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

tiborsaas wrote: post #174
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #28

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It suited me quite fine for many years. If an intellectual worker can't take a text editor and produce a coherent text about his skills and job experience, it is unlikely he'll be good at any job that requires thinking.

A good looking and easy to read resume take more than coherent text. It requires good typography, font choice, spacing etc. These generators with template designs take care of this problem so I can focus on the content not on designing my CV.

Actually, back in the day we specifically wrote in the job description to put CV text in the email body, not in an attached Word document. So, template design and typography were absolutely irrelevant.

Also, many people failed to notice this and attached files with their CVs anyway. I had a special tag 'dyslexic' for those in my email client.

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

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Post by john-radio »

ChymeraXYZ wrote: post #157
AHOHA wrote: post #89

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As I mentioned in the comment below, this is the first excuse for such discrimination, as most of the times they do properly communicate and can effectively communicate the idea, but it’s the covert way of discriminating them. One of the examples I witnessed, someone was from Singapore -and in Singapore just like a lot of other countries, English IS native, i.e. taught early in life- but they do have a thick accents,…

> That’s a poor analogy, you do have the tools to properly and easily compensate such linguistic disability, as easy as having someone double checking their writing or having one of these new AI spell check tools, etc. If the hypothetical person in question had such tools, then we would not see their "handicap" right? So the discrimination would not have occurred...

If only there were a word for a level of language proficiency where the person's speech is perfectly intelligible, but where there are still audible clues about the person's linguistic background that could be used to discriminate against them, and if only this weren't a "hypothetical person" but OP said they were talking about strong engineers with mild accents in their very first post? To act like the candidates' english is too poor for them to be employable is being willfully obtuse at best and outright racist at worst. There's nothing particularly difficult about working with someone who has a bit of a lilt or a twang or what have you; in fact it is more fun than working at a workplace where everyone sounds the same.

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

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Post by dustincoates »

tornato7 wrote: post #36
goncalomb wrote: post #26

Looks good, definitely an impressive "weekend project". I'll probably use it in the future. I don't mean to sound rude. But, can you explain what you mean by "trusted by students and employees from top universities and companies worldwide" while showing some university/company logos? How can such a new project make those claims? Was it released elsewhere privately? Looking at the git history, I see it was created 2 d…

He could have just sent it to a few friends at those universities/companies. Nobody should take those sorts of 'trusted by' sections seriously anyway.

I once came across a landing page for a well known (to the HN crowd, at least) that claimed us as a customer, even though we weren't using the products they were advertising us on. It took a month or so for them to remove it, and since then I've been a lot more cynical about what I see there.

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

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Post by wnolens »

JoshuaEN wrote: post #91
wnolens wrote: post #39

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Are you hiring for a writing gig? If not, the bias could hurt. It's like a leet code interview - artificial bar from highly biased interviewers which kinda sorta works but is buggy and a bit discriminatory.

Most of my job as a software developer is communicating with other people (stakeholders, peers, management), including written (pr comments, emails to various people, Teams chats, design documents) and vocal. Even writing code is ultimately a form of communication (code structure, variable names, comments, etc...). Even new developers who are primarily going to be mentored greatly benefit from being able to effective…

I agree. I'd assess a technical writing sample though. I'm actually shocked this doesn't occur. Some months I spend 75% of my time thinking, writing about designs, diagramming, then meeting, communicating, reviewing and iterating on the doc. Coding is the easy part.

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

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Post by x3874 »

dotandgtfo wrote: post #77
rosmax_1337 wrote: post #70

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They claimed companies like Google and some universities trusted their software. If you read it word by word, it was only a claim that people who worked at the companies and who studied at the universities trusted their software, but the usage of company and university logos also made clear claim that the companies and universities themselves had endorsed it. They admitted it was for marketing purposes, and I added t…

I don't really attribute this maliciously. Yeah, it may be overstepping it a bit but the wording can make sense (but they should definitively change it). Developers generally aren't great marketers and these guys aren't native in english.

It's false advertising. This can get expensive quickly.

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

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

sunderw wrote: post #176
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #100

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> it is YOUR job as an employer to provide the proper tool I love it when people from internet forums are telling me what my job is. You know, your way of thinking will eventually lead to understanding that interviewing is inherently discriminatory against everyone but the best candidate, and thus must be abolished. This will lead to a creation of some kind of government agency that you'll ask for a worker and it'll…

> You know, your way of thinking will eventually lead to understanding that interviewing is inherently discriminatory against everyone but the best candidate That's not discrimination. The problem is when you assume someone isn't the best candidate because of (pick (religion, origin, language, disability, ...)) but you don't know that. A lot of people have used your way of thinking to justify discrimination. "Obvious…

> The problem is when you assume someone isn't the best candidate because of (pick (religion, origin, language, disability, ...)) but you don't know that.

I assume that someone who can't throw up a few lines of text about himself is not worth even considering for an interview for a job that ultimately requires producing text, in a form of computer code, documentation and communication with co-workers. Yes, I'm pretty sure I'm discriminating against mentally handicapped and illiterate people. That's the intent.

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

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Post by mminer237 »

philipwhiuk wrote: post #133
mminer237 wrote: post #63

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What's the difference between a CV and a résumé? I understand academia uses longer CVS, but I thought they were synonymous terms for general job hunting.

It's lots of minor things: * CVs are generally longer - 2-4 sides. Resumes are more of a one page and done thing. * Resumes often include a mission statement or similar. CVs don't - you'd put that stuff on a 'cover letter', if at all * CVs are generally not adjusted per job - it's everything, with only the older stuff abbreviated. Whereas resumes are tailored.

Ah, I didn't realize all CVs are longer. Yeah, a résumé longer than a page is considered bad practice.

However, as an American, I've never heard of a résumé including a mission statement or being adjusted per job. As you said, they're very short documents. I've always seen them just giving the same factual history of the person's employment/education, and the person similarly attaches a cover letter tailored to the specific job, repeating some highlights and how it qualifies him and saying how perfect this job is for him.

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