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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 tseabrooks »

prophetjohn wrote: post #33
brc wrote: post #27

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. I…

Or instead of locking it, you could just have a "Last modified" time stamp or a log indicating when modifications were made.

Well. There might be legitimate things that need to be corrected. Spelling / Grammar for instance. Why not have the last modified and a history. Save off the diffs so you can recreate the older versions for potential employers.

Another option is that a new revision generates a new random string for the URL and that revision is always available there.

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

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Post by lukejduncan »

koevet wrote: post #34

Tried it out, excellent execution. The Linkedin import is a killer. But, what's the use case for a product like this? I mean, I had my CV on Linkedin for ages. Same goes for most of the professionals I know. How does a product like this one - and the others mentioned in the comments - position itself in a space dominated by Linkedin and personal web sites (such as flavors.me)?

I'm curious of that too. What's the differentiator? If it's just that it's 'simple' then why not just create a simple facade over sites like LinkedIn (full disclosure I work there)? What incentive do users have in the long run to maintain yet another site with information about them. At some point after undergrad I went around tracking down all those about-me sites that accumulated around the net and had outdated or completely erroneous information. I get the feeling this would stale in the same way.

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

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Post by gizzlon »

brc wrote: post #27

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. I…

What about versioning? I don't want all my versions exposed, but an ability to link to a specific version would be nice. Maybe a random url for each version. Your site could then guarantee that old versions can not be changed. Include the date of the version on the page, together with a link to the most recent version.

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

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

gizzlon wrote: post #53
brc wrote: post #27

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. I…

What about versioning? I don't want all my versions exposed, but an ability to link to a specific version would be nice. Maybe a random url for each version. Your site could then guarantee that old versions can not be changed. Include the date of the version on the page, together with a link to the most recent version.

Different random url I suppose...

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

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Post by jacobbijani »

ErrantX wrote: post #45

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 :)

Nav bar only shows if you're viewing your own resumes.

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

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

koevet wrote: post #34

Tried it out, excellent execution. The Linkedin import is a killer. But, what's the use case for a product like this? I mean, I had my CV on Linkedin for ages. Same goes for most of the professionals I know. How does a product like this one - and the others mentioned in the comments - position itself in a space dominated by Linkedin and personal web sites (such as flavors.me)?

Can't see the linkedin import feature. Where is it? Such a simple site, can't believe I'm missing it.

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

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Post by mwhite »

marcamillion wrote: post #46
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.

I usually send people the Github markdown one as my main version: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresume. Then there is the PDF: http://bit.ly/mwhiteresumepdf. I don't really use the HTML but here it is: http://mwhite.info/resume/resume.html. Looks better than I remembered.
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