Show HN: Create pretty resumes in HTML, Latex, Markdown from a single JSON (opens in new tab)

I render my resume in a similar way using Knockout.js, but with fewer options. I might steal a few ideas from this one.

https://github.com/mgraczyk/resume

I made a similar thing a while back. My resume in PDF:

http://hackerb.io/cantlin.pdf

In MD:

http://hackerb.io/cantlin.md

In JSON:

http://hackerb.io/cantlin.json

You can generate a decent chunk of the content from LinkedIn/GitHub too :)

http://hackerb.io/

Very cool project! The Latex version is based on the awesome modern cv template. If you prefer not to install the massive TeX package on your computer you can use the online apps like ShareLatex[0] and WriteLatex[1] both of which have templates that you can use to get a CV ready in no time.

[0] - https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/cv-or-resume/moderncv-c...

[1] - https://www.writelatex.com/templates/modern-cv-and-cover-let...

I would rather start with markdown than json.

This is particularly amusing because 6 or so months ago I had to write a résumé as part of a "career unit" in my Engish class. I was fed up with the whole thing -- what we had been taught seemed totally obvious to me and I was pretty much only doing busy work -- so I decided to write mine in JSON, and its schema happened to look pretty similar to this one's! The best part of the story, however, is that my awesome English teacher (only doing the unit because of the district), understanding of my interest in tech, loved it and thought it was clever and so gave me full points on it.

Most jobs still request Microsoft Word resumes. How difficult would it be to support that format?

While this seems like a nice exercise, I wonder how much things would break when the JSON is slightly "off" in terms of the schema, which seems to be very ad-hoc.

And with so many standards for resume schemas going around, I fear this will end up in a http://xkcd.com/927/ situation.

Perhaps this exercise could've been more interesting if it were some nifty XSLT that took HR-XML and made HTML (preferably with tags that followed the hResume format) and LaTeX? The "XML Résumé library" http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/ seems to be abandoned, but it is still worth to take a look.

This is a great idea! I did something similar which stripped the text out of my tex resume, but I like the idea of writing it in the intermediate format and then converting to whatever you want.

While on my most recent job search, I found that a lot of places want a copy/pasted version of your resume in a plain text box. It would be nice if this printed out a pretty plaintext version of your resume too for boxes like this.

Better would be software that can read a job posting and adjust your resume to align with the posting.

I also made an attempt to unify my resume in different formats.

But I ended up in much simpler, but not so advanced solution. I'm just writing in Markdown and use a Makefile to generate other outputs using Pandoc.

Here is the input: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/utdemir/resume/master/resu...

HTML Output: https://rawgit.com/utdemir/resume/master/build/resume.html

PDF Output: https://github.com/utdemir/resume/blob/master/build/resume.p...

And here is the whole project(I mean, the Makefile, and my Markdown resume): https://github.com/utdemir/resume

Hmmm, should be using en-dashes (--) not hyphens (-) for date-ranges, uses mathematical superscripting $22^nd$ and so gets incorrect fonts and spacing of the superscript, .... It's a CV, write it (carefully) in LaTeX!

Great idea actually. Also, there is https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/documents/curriculum-v... which can convert your XML to PDF or Word file. See also http://interop.europass.cedefop.europa.eu/data-model/xml-res...

Nice work...

Mine only does Latex, has a slightly similar layout... To be honest I don't think that a HTML version of a 2-page, non-interactive resume is needed. And since I know Latex I prefer to have the full toolset of Latex at my fingertips in order to make it stand out (babel+hyphen, vspacing, href links, content flow control).

Here the link, I hooks you up to a rendered version, and pointers for a zero-install-get-started-now-for-free route of getting your own print-perfect PDF using the awesome ShareLatex web app.

https://github.com/cies/resume

Pretty neat! Might be nice to add YAML as a format too, since it's easier to write by hand than JSON. Might submit a patch at some point soon :)

I find it interesting how techies rather make a complex generator than just open up an editor, write their resume and be done with the whole thing. Personally I find the JSON structure much harder to read than just use MD in Sublime or even something as trivial as using Word. By saying this, I don't try to bash on the creator, just acknowledge the phenomenon. Cool idea.

Nicely done, I'd been thinking of making something similar, because I've been using JSON to power my resume already.

My JSON is: http://itskrish.co/krish.json and my resume, powered by the JSON is: http://itskrish.co/resume

Very cool, I have a similar project that reads yaml and produces LaTeX and markdown/HTML: https://github.com/bamos/cv

Nice. I like it. Looks clean and professional. It'd be neat if you could offer themes, too.

This resume makes me feel inferior.

It's far from “pretty”. To many fonts, too many symbols, hyphens instead of dashes, …