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Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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Post by k-mcgrady »

raganwald wrote: post #33

First off, I am fifty years old, so I'm fond of traditional phrases like Curriculum Vitae . That being said... I suspect many people may find it a bit stuffy. Also, I don't think that you can have it both ways: If you use old-fashioned words, you should present it on high-quality paper, lovingly typeset. It strikes me as a little out of place on an interactive web site. JM2C, I'm not sure how you could meaningfully A…

I wouldn't say Curriculum Vitae is an old fashioned phrase. In Ireland and the UK I never hear anyone refer to a resumé, they talk about their CV or Curriculum Vitae. I think it depends where you come from.

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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Post by dutchbrit »

Shameless plug, but I used a jQuery timeline plugin to create my CV, since I found regular CV's boring. It's not that detailed, but it's less dull in my eyes. Still need o add my LinkedIn profile that will serve as the boring version. Ps. Doesn't look great on mobile yet..

http://www.samgranger.com/cv/

I still need to change a lot and I might end up taking a completely other approach. But I want to make it as interactive as possible. Probably will end up writing my own plugin.

My old CV: http://www.samgranger.com/old_cv/

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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Post by Surio »

dutchbrit wrote: post #72

Shameless plug, but I used a jQuery timeline plugin to create my CV, since I found regular CV's boring. It's not that detailed, but it's less dull in my eyes. Still need o add my LinkedIn profile that will serve as the boring version. Ps. Doesn't look great on mobile yet.. http://www.samgranger.com/cv/ I still need to change a lot and I might end up taking a completely other approach. But I want to make it as interac…

+2 (Figuratively, of course!)

Fantastic! Now, that's an interactive CV! Lovely!

Wishlist: I want to play with the code. Any plans to make it public? ;-)

NitPick: the action film image on the top makes the white coloured font unreadable, but the image itself is cool. :-)

P.S: My Web CV employs the same look and feel as yours does.

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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Post by S4M »

FuzzyDunlop wrote: post #68
mkramlich wrote: post #18

I love those skill bars. Because they say something meaningful, potentially, namely what you're relatively better or worse at, more or less experienced at. Without committing the sin of telling the world what your objectively absolute rating is in some supposedly global but in actuality undefined frame of reference. Example: "I'm a 6/10 on Apples and an 8 on Oranges, and Bob over there says he's 9 on Apples and 1 on…

I disagree, because they're completely arbitrary and a full bar can suggest that you either know everything, or you can't improve any more. Trying to represent knowledge or skill on a finite scale is a bad idea, I think. If I got this CV in a pile I'd want to see examples to demonstrate that skill in place of this section, not a set of percentages pulled from thin air.

Agree. The OP should mention what he has done or what he knows with the technologies and languages he is assessing himself.

For example:

Matlab: built a model to do X in matlab, used very frequenty to do my reports for two years.

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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Post by biscarch »

philip1209 wrote: post #58
[deleted] wrote: post #55

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I'm not familiar - if there's a better way, please let me know. If you just try to serve an index.html, it doesn't work. http://kennethreitz.com/static-sites-on-heroku-cedar.html

If it's just a static site, why not use GH-pages?

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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Post by robeastham »

dutchbrit wrote: post #72

Shameless plug, but I used a jQuery timeline plugin to create my CV, since I found regular CV's boring. It's not that detailed, but it's less dull in my eyes. Still need o add my LinkedIn profile that will serve as the boring version. Ps. Doesn't look great on mobile yet.. http://www.samgranger.com/cv/ I still need to change a lot and I might end up taking a completely other approach. But I want to make it as interac…

Another shameless plug. I'm slowly bootstrapping MightyCV - a resume platform with hacker leanings. It has integrations with HN, github and StackOverflow along with some other cool features.

http://robeastham.mightycv.com

If you like the look of it you can sign up for an invite at http://www.mightycv.com

Re: Show HN: Built my resume as an interactive website, version-controlled on Github

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Post by hluska »

Surio wrote: post #64

Like a few others, I too found it an average CV (It is something very similar to what I myself have, and I consider myself an average (-; ). To be honest, there are a few others in the comments that I gravitated towards more (It's a matter of personal preference of course). Sure, the Progress bar looks new, but others too have it on them -- see v33ra's response below. You took a chance and placed it on HN for the sel…

Sorry to be 'that guy', but are you sure you attached the correct link? Chris Harrison's CV is (sadly) in pdf on his website!
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