While it may be true for some companies, I've never seen a company do this.
Looks like you've definitely put more effort in to the styles and the thumbnails look nice! I would love to see a small gallery of designs!
I'm -1 on photos on resume since it opens the door to a lot of bias (unconscious or not) so I hope you offer a lot options without photos / icons.
To that end, many HR departments in the US have a blanket policy to reject applications with photos present due to the potential liability of bias or discrimination complaints. Many protected classes[1] can easily be identified via a photo. If they reject every application with a photo, it reduces their attack surface for future lawsuits or complaints.
Potentially less of an issue if you go through recruiters or hiring managers directly, as the recruiters will just redact that part of the resume if needed and hiring managers may not know (or follow) standard HR policies. But you still open yourself up to a risk of rejection purely by inclusion of a picture, irrespective of the content of your resume or capabilities.
Did you try the tool? inside you can see a sample of all designs, or do you mean you would like to see them in the landing? something to keep in mind to update it.
Yeah, I'm with you on the bias with the pictures. I want to work on a way to customize a little bit (like removing picture, icons or changing the color accent) of designs before generating, but I have to think it out before building. That's why in the meantime I included a couple of designs without picture for people to use :D
I agree. Interestingly, medical school applications (at least in the US) require photos. I'm really not sure why - it seems messed up.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...
https://penguindreams.org/files/2018-SumitKhanna-Resume.pdf
I like it, and it's got me some good roles (probably also kept me from some roles as I'm sure some threw it in the trash thinking it smelled of marketing rubbish; but I still like it so whateves), but it's also a pain to update.
I looked at adapting HackMyResume (listed in the comments) and got somethings into the standard JSON format, but I wanted to keep my timeline and getting it to work programmatically was way more difficult than I thought. Someone provided this answer on StackExchange for Laytex, but I never got things to lineup correctly and sorta gave up:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/183046/how-do-i-deve...
Every time I think about doing it programmatically, I start down a path, get frustrated and realize I need something now, and end up just updating the old one in Illustrator. I hesitate to use a tool like this since mine looks unique and don't want anyone to recognize it comes from a standard template. It's still pretty neat though and I like the idea of allowing a preview with a watermark as a means to attempt to monetize it.
My only suggestion would be to put the names of the companies in italic or differentiate it in some way.
When I read a resume, the very first thing I do is scan the name of the companies you've worked at to see if I recognize any of them as either a place known for great hires or somewhere I've actually worked. I had to go down to your "normal resume" to do that easily.
Edit to clarify: I don't ever cut anyone because of where they worked or went to school. I'm only looking for a signal in the noise or some common experience for us to discuss.
Ughh, as someone who went to a state school and spent most of his career toiling away at non-name brand companies, please allow me a moment to shake my fist angrily at you over the Internet!
You’ve probably already considered this and accept the trade off, but I can’t help but think that these kinds of filters result in many false negatives and contribute to some of the monocultures we find inside tech companies (everyone here is ex-Microsoft, everyone here is from Stanford or MIT, etc.) When building the content for a resume, Shouldn’t the work content be more important than name dropping celebrity companies? Am I being too naive?
Honestly I wish there was a norm of not mentioning specific companies on resumes, letting your actual skills and experiences speak for themselves, but that ship sailed long before I was born.
Actually your same experience is what took me to make this, the pain of having to open Illustrator to edit the resume once again. Atleast for the next time I got this. And thanks for the kind words :)
Part of my job involves data visualization, and what better way to flash those skills on a resume then making custom graphics with my work experience as a dataset.
Thank you for the inspiration.
* privacy: if it's not client-side only, how do I know you're not saving all my data and selling it to advertisers recruiters spammers etc?
* popularity: a random recruiter pulls up two applications and they both have the exactly same template. this is probably a bad thing. best case scenario you become less unique and more forgettable, worst case scenario they think you're a liar that has plagiarized the resume from somewhere and the contents aren't correct
On the second argument, I assume recruiters are seeing tons of resumes presented in the same package daily. I don't think this will affect negatively to the applicants. Hopefully this starts becoming a problem and I get to work and design 100 more templates for variety :)
No, I'm not concerned at all with that! There is a full sample preview of each template once you login. I guess I need to put it in the landing to?
As of now, you can download your profile in PDF format with no choices of templates.
Nowadays I use Overleaf's online tex editor, so I don't even need tex installed to update it.
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/cv-chandan/vgynfrhc...
Care to see what I did with this resume using https://notyce.me? I validated it to check the resume's suitability in job market. Have a look https://ibb.co/sqqQ1yb
Open source represents open source contributions (aka repos).
Well that looks cool and apparently its spot on!
btw, you may need to look into https://notyce.me/resources/sometimes-its-not-you.html tells on the font types you should consider.
I won't release the project per se, but I do plan on striping out all the business logic and release a full stack SaaS scaffolding (Node + React) of the project with the basics (dockerized dev enviroment, a CRUD, authorization, deploy ready etc...) for anyone to build a product like this. this.
edit: typo.
Some of your templates look vaguely familiar though.
https://realporthub.herokuapp.com
*Edited for positivity. This is legit cool.
I designed the templates taking inspiration on what friends showed me, what found online as well as my previous resumes.
To be completely honest its the first time I see that website! But I can see how the black sidebar one looks similar, but they all use pretty common heavily used design patterns.
One of the, if no THE, most important things I found was the machine readability of a resume. We could build generators that spit beautiful resumes all day but they wouldn't ever get in front of a human to care.
I recently had to rewrite my resume and found it surprisingly difficult to find any decent templates, so I created my own in Google Docs https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LoPO2A_mZXJTpn90K27FPKU3... . Anyone reading this is welcome to use it.
I used it for the first time last week, and I am on to the second round of interviews.
[ When all else fails, use your dev skills ]
Take the time to think about your career and highlight what fits the job I am asking you to do.
To get past HR load up on recent buzzwords but tailor the resume to suit the job is the #1 thing I look for.
Any hint of not putting in the effort and I assume that is your work style.
No way I want someone who cant put in the effort to get the job. You know they will put in less when they do get it.
In my case, I have a word document that I only occasionally export to pdf when I'm searching for new opportunities, let's say once every two years. Updating is not too much of a hassle for me because I end up just having to add a few lines summing up my new experience since last time.
Am I missing something, or is everyone doing it differently?
Other users (like me) tend to look for a more polished design than that of what MS word/Google Docs etc... offer, but it is perfectly normal, this use case might not be relevant for you.
I saw the free vs paid options - and the paid being "$30" and I was asking myself "$30 for...how long?" - so I went back (because I didn't want to make a fool of myself before I commented) and read it carefully...and..."oh - for one year of access"
Ok - that's fair - but I want to suggest that you make that part a bit more prominent on that card, because if I missed it I am sure others will as well. I don't think the price is unfair (seems reasonable out the gate) - but knowing the terms of how long you get access for that price shouldn't be something you have to search a bit for.
Actually at first it was very evident $30/year, but I removed it in the last minute because it seemed like a suscription (which is not). Definetly going to make that thing stand out more.
I tried cake resume a while ago and while it was nice-ish, they wanted to sign up for a $7.95-$15.95/mo recurring charge (I feel like it was even closer to $20 a last time I looked?)
I think having a 1 year access without recurring subscription is a nice way to be able to use the product (including updates) and not having to charge for something weird like single use/downloads.
1) Does it use templates? If so, resumes will probably look similar to each other, and not stand out from their competition. Is this assumption incorrect?
2) In my opinion, a developer using a resume generator sounds kind of unprofessional or even lazy ("highest quality developer resume in less than 5 minutes"), in contrast to say, using LaTeX (without templates).
I would not think less of an engineer who used standard components.
I made this tool because I always feel the pain when having to update my resume as well as my friends ones.
Since I tend to keep my Github pretty updated my idea was having a way to generate a professional looking resume getting the information from my profile (personal data, website, tags, repos, etc...) the fastest possible, without having to tinker much with the design or anything.
I haven't had the opportunity to test it with many people yet, so any feedback is more than appreciated.
I've toyed with the idea of making a resume generator SaaS where the user would enter their LinkedIn URL which my app would scrape and use it to populate different LaTeX templates rendered server-side into PDFs (for free) while offering some sort of editor or the raw LaTeX (in a premium version) where the user could apply edits.
While AFAIK scraping LinkedIn was deemed lawful in some previous court case [1] I fear it would be a hard sell. Wonder what kinda trouble I would run into.
[0] https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/cv-or-resume/fancy-cv [1] http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2019/09/09/17...
http://blog.gregjotau.com/job/2018/06/05/cover_letter_templa...
The website also looks like it is hiding functionality behind a registration, instead of letting me try right away, but I cannot confirm this, as the website does not work, as stated above.
