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Resume.io - Crazy-simple online resumes with impression tracking.

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Re: Resume.io - Crazy-simple online resumes with impression tracking.

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Post by zacharyz »

I was hoping it would act as a linkedin importer with impression tracking. The thing I like about linkedin is that I keep that information updated anyway and if anyone needs to pull a resume they can do so from my profile. This, while nice, is more work - which makes it not all that useful.

Re: Resume.io - Crazy-simple online resumes with impression tracking.

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Post by benatkin »

jt11508 wrote: post #5

Yeah it's simple. But if you want simple and better, http://re.vu/ is far superior.

There are probably other good ones that don't have uber-fancy domain names too. (http://resume.io/ and http://re.vu/ are fancy in different ways)

Re: Resume.io - Crazy-simple online resumes with impression tracking.

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Post by [deleted] »

jczhang wrote: post #4
mattmanser wrote: post #2

Fantastic idea and looks like it might be nice implementation, just not enough detail on the product for me to sign up and have a play. No ToS, no privacy statement, nothing. Who are you? Also: 1. Can I mark my account as hidden until I want people to see it? 2. What will you do with my data? Note, with LinkedIn it's pretty clear what they're going to do from the get-go just because of the nature of the service, with…

Agreed, its a little over-simplistic. Add a button with a FAQ or something and the content can be kept simple on the main page.

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Re: Resume.io - Crazy-simple online resumes with impression tracking.

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Post by mwhite »

Not bad, a nice simple hosted resume solution. I'm not a designer but it seems to me that the visual distinction achieved by the indentation on the left side of resume items could be improved a bit. It all seems kind of mashed together and somehow hard on the eyes.

As mentioned in another comment, http://re.vu is a totally different approach that attempts to enable slick display of a ton of information.

I still prefer what I currently use: Markdown + pandoc + github + bit.ly. That gives me the following:

1. Version control, backup and hosting from Github.

2. Plain text for posting in the occasional web form or whenever else I might need a plain text resume.

3. One-command conversion to PDF using pandoc with a very simple LaTeX header (which I could automate with git hooks if I was lazy enough).

4. One-command conversion to HTML using pandoc, with a CSS file. I can jazz up the CSS and then print to PDF from my browser if I ever want something prettier.

5. Readable URLs using bit.ly that point to the latest version, for which I can easily view analytics by appending +, including country and referrer: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresume and http://bit.ly/mwhiteresumepdf

6. The awesomeness that is Github's Markdown style.

http://github.com/mwhite/resume

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