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Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

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Post by benkarst » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 7:30 PM UTC

It's a command line version of Smarty Resume (http://www.smartyresume.com/). Smarty is better but only has a PDF export.

Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

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Post by claytonjy » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 7:35 PM UTC

mikestew wrote: post #33

tambourine_man wrote: post #9

Couldn't find an example of a generated résumé or themes.

Maybe you missed it, or maybe I'm misunderstanding your question: https://jsonresume.org/themes/ . Click the Preview button.

Thanks, I missed that too. Cool to see Hendricks as the example content.

Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

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Post by sbahr001 » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 7:42 PM UTC

Why all the criticism this is a great tool, it might not fit your needs, but it is a great tool none the less. He did a great job building it and its useful to some, and its open source and people can tweak it for there own use cases.

Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

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Post by iblaine » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 7:46 PM UTC

You use the work hack but I do not think you know what it means.

Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

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Post by benplumley » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 7:52 PM UTC

TranquilMarmot wrote: post #24

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #16

but...if I already have my CV in LaTeX why would I need it in this?

My resume is in LaTeX and I love it and its easy to edit and it looks beautiful... but some jobs (and I'm not kidding here) will only accept resumes in an MS Word .doc format. I can't tell you how much butchering I had to to do get my resume in Word to look close to how nice it looks as a PDF.

I'd be tempted to make an image of the PDF and insert it into a Word document so it fills the page, but that would probably have broken their workflow (Word's inline comments, perhaps) and dropped me straight into the reject pile.

Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

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Post by danenania » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 8:13 PM UTC

Really cool! Folks interested in this might also be interested in a new project I just launched--a free minimalist résumé builder focused on developers and designers: https://makerslate.io

Exporting to various formats is high on my list of todos. I'll definitely be looking closely at how it's implemented here.

Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

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Post by tnecniv » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 8:39 PM UTC

tambourine_man wrote: post #9

Couldn't find an example of a generated résumé or themes.

http://please.hackmyresume.com/jane/resume

Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

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Post by tnecniv » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 8:39 PM UTC

sah2ed wrote: post #13

tambourine_man wrote: post #9

Couldn't find an example of a generated résumé or themes.

Agreed, was looking for an example of the PDF or HTML output generated by this tool.

I posted an HTML link above from the project's main website.

Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

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Post by tnecniv » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 8:40 PM UTC

kozukumi wrote: post #11

tambourine_man wrote: post #9

Couldn't find an example of a generated résumé or themes.

Yup, I wanted to check a few PDF outputs. Shame.

I'd like to see a PDF, too, although I put an HTML example above.

Re: HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

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Post by romanhn » Thu, Dec 24, 2015, 9:45 PM UTC

gkop wrote: post #32

bliti wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Context please. :)

This is the OP sample: http://please.hackmyresume.com/jane/resume It's certainly a step up from a docx but just not that great of a template based on the criteria I named. It seems to me the template itself is the most important differentiating characteristic of a product like the OP. I understand it accepts custom templates, but that one above is the only sample I found. Here's my own old-school resume with the DeCo…

Awesome, thanks for linking to this! I copied this format from a friend 10+ years ago and have yet to find a better/cleaner replacement. Never knew that it is based on a well-known template.