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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 socratic »

Who is the target market for this, exactly?

I guess it seems like "make a business version of X" is always sensible, so maybe this is like the business version of http://about.me/ ?

Personally, the resume process whenever I have applied anywhere has been: (1) make a beautiful resume in LaTeX, (2) export beautiful LaTeX resume to PDF, (3) get asked for an MS Word Doc or plain text so they can put it in their recruitment system.

Does passively posting a resume work for people? Does it lead to actual good recruiter interactions, rather than noise? Or is this for freelancers?

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

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Post by jt11508 »

HaloZero wrote: post #18
jt11508 wrote: post #5

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

Want a post up an example of a re.vu resume for comparison against this service?

Sure, how about this one:

http://re.vu/BarackObama

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

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Post by jt11508 »

HaloZero wrote: post #18
jt11508 wrote: post #5

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

Want a post up an example of a re.vu resume for comparison against this service?

Buried in their About page are the founders:

http://re.vu/stephen http://re.vu/bart http://re.vu/mikeharding

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

#25

Post by TreyHenninger »

indeed.com supports resume posting.

It can take a resume upload or a linkedin profile and give you your own personalized resume URL like:

http://www.indeed.com/me/TreyHenninger

The resume search is awesome for employers too. http://www.indeed.com/resumes

Disclaimer: I work at indeed, but not on the resume product.

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

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Post by samgro »

dangrossman wrote: post #6
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…

I signed up just to poke around. Here's a full page example: http://resume.io/dangrossman/xisuxools3 There seems to be no style options and no domain/URL options. You just fill in boxes and it generates a random URL after your username as the resume. You can have more than one resume with different random URLs. There's a LinkedIn import button to grab your list of employers and dates of employment, but it somehow gav…

I think the random string is clever. My first instinct would be that you should be able to reach it at http://resume.io/dangrossman, but then if someone is familiar with the service they could circumvent the tracking URLs.

On the other hand, having a human friendly URL might be nice in the long run for easily finding people. Definitely a tradeoff.

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

#27

Post by brc »

I think any move towards online resumes is great. It makes no sense that all recuitment is online yet all documents are off-line.

I don't keep a resume anymore, but on occasion someone asks me for one. I normally tell them I don't have one and point to my site, linkedin page, etc.

A couple of times recently I've been told that 'online resumes are not accepted'. Presumably because they can be changed after the fact. Ie - insert fake job, submit resume, remove fake job. Or something.

Of course, I just use the linkedin export to PDF option and send it to the lazy person shakes fist

But you might want to either (a) have a pdf export for people and/or (b) have a 'guarantee locked version' or something so that people know the version they are looking at hasn't changed since they first saw it.

Yes, I know, it's weird to want to refuse updates to a resume, but apparently people want that. It's more about ass-covering by documentation, but I guess that's what many people are about.

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

#28

Post by seekely »

jt11508 wrote: post #5

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

Better seems very subjective. I spent more time trying to figure out how to read a re.vu candidate's charts and visualizations than quickly digesting useful information about the candidate.

I am a fan of exploring portfolios. I am not a fan of exploring resumes. Especially when I would like to flip through a few hundred quickly.

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

#30

Post by nasreen11 »

Resume.io looks very simple but too simple for me. I have been fiddling around with re.vu and am very impressed. I like the ease of creating interesting infographics and attaching my work. re.vu easily creates something that gives an employer an instant insight into who I am instead of just a name on a page of text.
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