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Universal Resume Template
- diffeomorphism 7y agoThis looks nice and having it produce websites and pdfs is surely useful. Some hopefully constructive criticism: - The light gray, low contrast theme makes it harder to read and also look washed out. - Fonts and kerning tend to be handled better in latex, e.g. moderncv - Having a non-open source license is of course your choice, but makes this quite unattractive to use (is it still going to be around in a few years? Will anyone maintain non-free software if you lose interest?)
- webpraktikos 7y agoHey, thanks for commenting. 1. Body text has the contrast ratio of 7.52 under WCAG 2.0 standards (https://contrast-ratio.com/#%234a5568-on-white https://contrast-ratio.com/#%234a5568-on-white) which is within the optimal range for legibility. On paper, the text is 100% black. On the screen, that can be too much, so I used grays. Labels are lighter because I wanted to treat them as supporting text, not main. 2. This is primarily for the Web. So, HTML/CSS. I didn’t know about LaTeX before, interesting. 3. It’s free, and you can modify it, maintain it, etc. The only restriction is that you can’t use it for commercial purposes (e.g., page builder). More info here https://github.com/WebPraktikos/universal-resume#license https://github.com/WebPraktikos/universal-resume#license
- swiley 7y agoBe careful with LaTeX. It’s easy to get sucked into it.
- amelius 7y agoJust like programming in general.
- webpraktikos 7y agoStaring into the Abyss. Don’t get sucked into it. :D
- blaser-waffle 7y agoLaTeX is good stuff, very powerful but also, as parent said, it's a deep rabbit hole. That said, Overleaf is a good online template & LaTeX editor. Kind of an easy way into it, similar to WYSIWYG HTML editors.
- aashcan 7y agoAnd then you start playing around with TikZ...
- willis936 7y agoLaTeX is really great. My CV is a 7 kB file with embedded fonts. My thesis is 1.2 MB with embedded fonts, 60 vector images and hyperlinks (references and ToC). LaTex is a serious amount of labor but it makes the best documents.
- billpg 7y agoLast time I looked for work, I made a nice CV in PDF and I put it on a custom website with a simple URL I could say over the phone. People still asked for it to be emailed in DOC format. Let's just say I experimented with the then current version of Word to see what would happen if I renamed that PDF to a DOC extension.
- ykevinator 7y agoThat's funny. It's an allegory for the hirer / hiree intelligence ratio.
- juped 7y agoI have no idea how true it is but what I've always been told is never to give someone a word-processor format resume as they will then turn around and use it in hiring/recruitment scams.
- kadoban 7y agoI've heard that advice as well, but I have a hard time explaining how it would be all that important. PDFs are editable, after all, you'd just have to spend a few minutes looking up a tool. So that would just cut out the absolute laziest or most incurious of scammers, right? How much value could there really be in that?
- kkarakk 7y agoharder to automate, which is the real reason why companies don't like pdf. every company/hiring startup is making tools to just feed your word docs into the system and then highlight candidates based on whatever the company values
- thanatropism 7y ago> every company/hiring startup is making tools to just feed your word docs Whereas pdftotext tools have been there since forever. I've written tools to try and extract text from docx files programmatically (not CVs but citations and footnote citations) and I seriously doubt "hiring startups" wouldn't just ask you to fill a web form. (As a matter of fact, I'm low key job hunting and what I've seen typically is that the systems try to extract the text from my non-standard formatting latex-made pdf, and then pre-fill a form. The form is usually right but needs fixes here and there. It's a good approach.)
- xtf 7y agoI have my own responsive, displayagnostic, offlinecapable cv and think everyone should have his own, because it is a platform for showing off your skills.
- nizmow 7y agoMy skills aren't front-end web development.
- LoSboccacc 7y agobackend developer? make an API now that would be a creative resume one could query nizmow/education or explore experiences endpoint so that one can navigate freely back and forth between experiences and skills. I mean, painters did this ages ago, putting everything they can do on a single frame and sending them to galleries or mecenates as gifts and whatnot it is of course just to get the foot in, you can then have your black and white skill table for the HR drone to fill up the necessary db.
- nizmow 7y agoI'd happily submit my CV as json... :)
- nscalf 7y agoThat’s the thing, in general you are not chosen by the relevance of your resume. Resume building is more SEO than showcasing relevant skills. If you can min max your SEO to get a conversation with someone who matters in your hiring process, then it works.
- xtf 7y agoI would not put my data on the wild web, especially phone and address.
- anoncake 7y agoThat sounds like a great way to show off your skills in over-engineering and tightening screws with a hammer.
- michaelmior 7y agoI found myself most curious about the meat-themed lorem ipsum generator...looks great though! Edit: Perhaps it was Bacon Ipsum? https://baconipsum.com/ https://baconipsum.com/
- webpraktikos 7y agoYes :) Speaking of which, I’m just about to prepare some eggs with bacon and ground beef.
- sp6677 7y agoIs there a way to convert this into word (.docx) easily
- webpraktikos 7y agoIn Chrome, you can save it as .pdf by Right-click → Print. By expanding More Settings, change Page Size to A4 or Letter. Next, maybe find a .pdf to .docx converter.
- anoncake 7y agoPDFs are notoriously hard to convert to anything else. Imagine a web page where every single character is positioned absolutely relative to the `body` element: This is how PDF layout works. It's easier when the PDF also contains HTML tags. So your approach may actually work though it's kinda silly. Pandoc[1] is a better solution. [1] https://pandoc.org/ https://pandoc.org/
- tracker1 7y agoPandoc is pretty great.
- webpraktikos 7y agoI didn’t know that. I’ll certainly research that.
- brandoncordell 7y agoI'm a little surprised that the multipage demo doesn't have a working print stylesheet. Granted, most of these resumes won't be printed out but I think they're minimal enough where they would look great printed out. A few well placed page-breaks [1] would fix it right up. [1] https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/p/page-break/ https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/p/page-break/
- webpraktikos 7y agoOf course it has → https://i.imgur.com/pUPiQjn.gifv https://i.imgur.com/pUPiQjn.gifv You probably didn’t set up page format properly. In Chrome, by expanding More Settings, change Page Size to A4 or Letter. More info at https://github.com/WebPraktikos/universal-resume#printing https://github.com/WebPraktikos/universal-resume#printing.
- thanatropism 7y agoI don't understand why I need npm.
- saghm 7y agoBecause the application is written in Node, and it uses dependencies? If you'd prefer something not written in Node, I'm sure you can find other options.
- thanatropism 7y agoI thought it was a web page template? Why would it need a back-end?
- webpraktikos 7y agoTailwind CSS generates CSS from JS config file containing a design system. For example, several custom sizes are generated to multiple utility classes for specifying margins and paddings.
- leerob 7y agoReminds me of Standard Resume. Nice work. https://standardresume.co https://standardresume.co
- rileyt 7y agoThanks leerob! It's nice to see more resume templates focus on typography and readability, instead of distracting visuals, charts, pictures, infographics, etc. Standard Resume has received praise from many recruiters and hiring managers for its similar styling. If you like the typography centric design of the URT, but are looking for a hosted solution with an easy to use web based editor and style customizer, definitely check out https://standardresume.co https://standardresume.co. If you want full control of your hosting and styling, URT is the best option I am aware of. For comparison: Standard Resume: https://rsm.io/dana-andrews https://rsm.io/dana-andrews Universal Resume Template: https://universal-resume-pages.netlify.com/ https://universal-resume-pages.netlify.com/
- webpraktikos 7y agoAlso, Universal Resume Template is better for print and pdf.
- rileyt 7y agoWhat makes it better for print and pdf?
- searedsteak 7y agoLet me just say, I really appreciate your sample text!
- the_seraphim 7y agoJust my 2 cents, or pennies, or roubles, whatever floats your economy... I dislike a CV that has 2 columns from the top (as per all of your demos)
- galacticdessert 7y agoNice work! Unfortunately there are some differences between the way it renders/prints in Firefox and in Chrome.
- webpraktikos 7y agoText is a bit fatter in Firefox — that is, takes up more space. Please remember to choose A4 or Letter size by navigating to Properties → Advanced → Paper Size.