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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 ollie »

I have mixed emotions about this post. It's both really frustrating & reassuring for me at the same time. I've been working (with a partner) on a very similar concept for the past couple of months.

Though I'd say that the features of ours are far more developed (we're implementing most of the ones I've seen suggested in this post); you're first to market. I guess the list of MVP features we've been working towards was just a little too long. Lesson learnt.

Sigh! I'll just have to get that signup page finished a little bit quicker.

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

#42

Post by Andrex »

samgro wrote: post #26
dangrossman wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think resume.io/user/public would do fine, wouldn't it?

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

#45

Post by ErrantX »

Yes, quite good. It misses a few of the principles of a good resume though...

- Switch to a better font

- definitely lose the italics

- I'd drop the breadcrumb at the top of the resume view page, that could easily confuse someone reading it

- Certainly avoid usernames appearing on the public stuff

Good stuff :)

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

#46

Post by marcamillion »

mwhite wrote: post #19

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 prefe…

What does a live version of your resume look like, if you don't mind me asking?

Would love to see the final version.

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

#47

Post by marcamillion »

jt11508 wrote: post #24
HaloZero wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Hrmm...I like these, but just looking at the first two it doesn't give me much information. Or rather, not much information that a recruiter can use.

It's like it is talking, but not saying anything.

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

#48

Post by marcamillion »

jt11508 wrote: post #22
HaloZero wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I must admit that this one does give a bit more useful info about Obama than the others give of themselves respectively.

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

#49

Post by losvedir »

Looks good. I signed up to play around with it. One thing that confused me at first was the resume link appends a random string of letters after your account. So my resume is at http://resume.io/gabe/staujevooc.

I thought "Staujevooc" was a last name and my account got confused with someone else's.

Can the randomly generated string be numbers instead? I don't want to send out that link to someone and have them ask, "Who is Gabe Staujevooc?"

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