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HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs
- eternal_july 11y agoI was semi-hoping, that "résumé validation" would validate it against things like expected buzzword frequency, HR stopwords and so on. The important things, you know.
- benmarks 11y agoHeh, well, it is on GitHub, and there is a history of merged PRs: https://github.com/hacksalot/HackMyResume/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+ https://github.com/hacksalot/HackMyResume/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%...
- hacksalot 11y agoHi! HMR author here. This is the exact use case for HackMyResume (and FluentCV Desktop), you hit the nail on the head. But we're just in v1.x and before doing stuff like keyword density analysis, StackOverflow tag awareness, GitHub integrations, other fun stuff, the basic generative workflow needed to be solid and we're also trying to stay compatible with JSON Resume (http://jsonresume.org/ http://jsonresume.org/) 0.0.0 ahead of the 1.0.0 drop -- the current schema doesn't support (formally) the level of detail you'd want for that kind of analysis, which is one of the reasons why FRESH/FRESCA exists (https://github.com/fluentdesk/FRESCA https://github.com/fluentdesk/FRESCA). Stay tuned though, there's a lot of tooling around this already esp. in FluentCV Desktop (= charts and graphs).
- nailer 11y agoWould be great to see LinkedIn API input, in case people want to interact with [insult here] that see your LinkedIn, but 'want you to send them a CV'.
- pc86 11y agoYou'd need an interface more robust than the console and json at that point, right? In order to select which aspects of your LI profile are appropriate for which level? But I agree it's probably a good next step.
- pc86 11y agoI was all set to roll my eyes about another json/markdown/whatever resume tool, but just seeing the console screenshot[0] made me rethink that. [0] https://github.com/hacksalot/HackMyResume/blob/master/assets/resume-bouqet.png https://github.com/hacksalot/HackMyResume/blob/master/assets...
- hdra 11y agoWhat is it that caught your attention? The merging?
- belzebub 11y agoI would love for there to be a formalized CV standard to avoid having to reenter the info on your resume into a job application.
- peteretep 11y agoThere's more than one. If you can solve parsing CVs/resumes in to standardised formats reliably, you'll get bought by an ATS for a trazillion dollars.
- richardwhiuk 11y agoATS?
- orange_county 11y agoApplicant tracking system. I.e. Taleo
- avn2109 11y agoI usually think of myself as someone with an above-average tolerance for unpleasant shlep work, but that sounds like incredibly boring work.
- tnecniv 11y agoI bet the solution is actually very interesting, but getting there, I agree.
- sah2ed 11y agoEven if one is able to build a rock solid format for CVs/resumes that is queryable, including i18n support, there is still the issue of adoption which is the hard part. You'll need early adoption by large employers such as big tech companies to governments for it to have potential to reach critical mass and make you become an acquisition target by Applicant Tracking System vendors.
- qute 11y agoThere is just another YAML-to-TEX-to-PDF Resume generator I created a while ago: https://github.com/QuteBits/resume_42 https://github.com/QuteBits/resume_42 Even back then there were plenty of Resume generators. What still haunts these tools is a too complex environment setup and unappealing template designs.
- tambourine_man 11y agoCouldn't find an example of a generated résumé or themes.
- kozukumi 11y agoYup, I wanted to check a few PDF outputs. Shame.
- sah2ed 11y agoAgreed, was looking for an example of the PDF or HTML output generated by this tool.
- tnecniv 11y agoI posted an HTML link above from the project's main website.
- mikestew 11y agoMaybe you missed it, or maybe I'm misunderstanding your question: https://jsonresume.org/themes/ https://jsonresume.org/themes/. Click the Preview button.
- claytonjy 11y agoThanks, I missed that too. Cool to see Hendricks as the example content.
- tnecniv 11y agohttp://please.hackmyresume.com/jane/resume http://please.hackmyresume.com/jane/resume
- blowski 11y agoIt seems to do a great job for what it claims to do, but I don't really understand the need for such a tool. How often do you update your CV that you need an automated tool to do it? And why would you need it in 10 different formats?
- claytonjy 11y agoTen might be overkill, but I really want to have an html version hosted online as well as a PDF version with the same content and LaTeX-quality typesetting (my current resume is written in LaTeX). There's some hacky tools out there for taking a resume in markdown and making html + pdf, but nothing really satisfactory, so I'm thinking this might be exactly what I've been looking for.
- blowski 11y agoProblem is, your CV should be optimised for the format in which you are looking at it. A Word and PDF version should be no more than 2 sides of A4, with the page break at a logical place. HTML should be interactive, with widgets that show relevant content. Web design is fundamentally different to print design, and your CV should show that you understand that. So you should be able to make a Word version save that to PDF, then re-write and redesign the content for the web page.
- snoman 11y agoThat's an opinion that not everyone holds, and doesn't necessarily hold for all sorts of people/positions. If you do design-heavy types of work, then it makes a lot of sense to heavily optimize for the format. If not, then that's just window dressing on a format that is used to convey information. I highly interactive web-based resume for a lawyer or accountant might seem silly in that community (and some of my lawyer/account friends agree).
- claytonjy 11y agoIn an optimal sense, I agree with you, but I don't have the skill/time/desire to make a really awesome web version as you describe, and would be quite happy with one that roughly mirrors the printable version. There's always LinkedIn too, which gives some of that interactivity. Further, this (really the underlying JSON resume schema) could be a great starting point for a fancier web-resume generator working from the same content.
- bryanrasmussen 11y agobut...if I already have my CV in LaTeX why would I need it in this?
- TranquilMarmot 11y agoMy resume is in LaTeX and I love it and its easy to edit and it looks beautiful... but some jobs (and I'm not kidding here) will only accept resumes in an MS Word .doc format. I can't tell you how much butchering I had to to do get my resume in Word to look close to how nice it looks as a PDF.
- danellis 11y agoThat kind of inflexibility seems like a good signal that you might not want to work there anyway.
- TranquilMarmot 11y agoI agree- unfortunately, sometimes I am desperate and end up taking the job for lack of other options :(
- benplumley 11y agoI'd be tempted to make an image of the PDF and insert it into a Word document so it fills the page, but that would probably have broken their workflow (Word's inline comments, perhaps) and dropped me straight into the reject pile.
- TranquilMarmot 11y agoFrom what I can tell, their general "workflow" is to shove the Word document into a parser that grabs your name, address, experience, education, etc. and puts it into a searchable format so that can filter on certain keywords. The reason they need to Word doc is because it's the only format their parser accepts...
- dredmorbius 11y ago
- sourc3 11y agoOne thing that I really wanted to do for hiring is to be able to put resumes on top of each other in a tool and slice and dice over time periods to see how a person's career has evolved be it in terms of companies they worked for, skills they picked up etc. Does anyone else feel the same need? Storing the resumes in a queryable format is a good first step towards my dream :)
- tamana 11y agoWhy? For fun, or because it helps you make a good hiring decision?
- sourc3 11y agoIt would really save me time in understanding who to talk to first. Would it impact the final decision? No. But it would certainly help me prioritize candidates. It is really time consuming to go through 120 resumes to see who you want to talk to first (especially when you also have a day job of delivering software).
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- gkop 11y agoAm I just a cranky curmudgeon if I think that the most clear, elegant, and easy-to-read resume format is still Michael DeCorte's 1989 LaTeX template?
- bliti 11y agoContext please. :)
- gkop 11y agoThis is the OP sample: http://please.hackmyresume.com/jane/resume http://please.hackmyresume.com/jane/resume It's certainly a step up from a docx but just not that great of a template based on the criteria I named. It seems to me the template itself is the most important differentiating characteristic of a product like the OP. I understand it accepts custom templates, but that one above is the only sample I found. Here's my own old-school resume with the DeCorte template: http://static.coshx.com/kopley_resume.pdf http://static.coshx.com/kopley_resume.pdf
- omegote 11y agoThat's nice. I've been using LaTeX's moderncv template for years and I was looking for a change, specially because in moderncv, the dates are on the left side and when you input a range (say, september 2010 - january 2011) it ends up all cramped. BTW, do you have the base style for that uploaded somewhere?
- sotojuan 11y agoThat is one of the most famous LaTeX resume templates, so there's a lot of examples of it online. Here's one: https://github.com/elizabrock/LaTeX-Resume https://github.com/elizabrock/LaTeX-Resume
- romanhn 11y agoAwesome, thanks for linking to this! I copied this format from a friend 10+ years ago and have yet to find a better/cleaner replacement. Never knew that it is based on a well-known template.
- heydonovan 11y agoCheck out JSON Resume too: https://jsonresume.org/ https://jsonresume.org/
- benkarst 11y agoIt's a command line version of Smarty Resume (http://www.smartyresume.com/ http://www.smartyresume.com/). Smarty is better but only has a PDF export.
- sbahr001 11y agoWhy all the criticism this is a great tool, it might not fit your needs, but it is a great tool none the less. He did a great job building it and its useful to some, and its open source and people can tweak it for there own use cases.
- iblaine 11y agoYou use the work hack but I do not think you know what it means.
- bl4ckdu5t 11y agoThat's right. I think the buzzword hack is just to gain attention
- danenania 11y agoReally cool! Folks interested in this might also be interested in a new project I just launched--a free minimalist résumé builder focused on developers and designers: https://makerslate.io https://makerslate.io Exporting to various formats is high on my list of todos. I'll definitely be looking closely at how it's implemented here.
- cm0000cm 11y agoI use word clouds http://mcclanahoochie.com/blog/portfolio/word-cloud-resume-hack/ http://mcclanahoochie.com/blog/portfolio/word-cloud-resume-h...
- muescha 11y agois there any repository with the FluentCV Desktop?