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There is! https://jsonresume.org/ https://jsonresume.org/ But nobody really uses it for data interchange. I use it to render my resume in new layouts now and t

There is! https://jsonresume.org/ https://jsonresume.org/ But nobody really uses it for data interchange. I use it to render my resume in new layouts now and then. Although, it does let style dictate content sometimes (some templates force you to have dates down to the day for job start and end dates, etc.)

spondyl 5y ago
I used a JSON resume once and I like the idea. It didn't help when I had to apply for an unemployment benefit (while still trying to enter the industry) and they asked for my resume as a word document. As you can imagine, I felt like a clown trying to explain that I didn't have a word document because my resume was generated from a JSON file. I did, however, have a PDF on a USB drive I always kept on me but they refused to accept USBs out of fear that I was trying to give them a virus. Eventually the lady processing my application gave up and printed the PDF off that was hosted on my website but also scolded me for not having a word doc. The whole ordeal was pointless anyway since they said they can give me 70% of my rent.
- ethbr0 5y ago
  tl;dr - HR is underfunded / under-resourced / un-aspirational. Even if there were a turn-key software platform they all used, which natively supported a standard data format, they'd still find a way to screw it up.
- version_five 5y ago
  I have my resume in markdown so I can create a word/pdf/html etc. with pandoc. It would be possible to write something that parses a json resume into markdown so it could be trivially format shifted
- Aeolun 5y ago
  My JSON resume is transformed to docx, and only latter to PDF for exactly this reason.
- 1123581321 5y ago
  One of those pdf-to-docx online converters would’ve probably been good enough for this.
thomasfromcdnjs 5y ago
Json Resume is still going strong. I am one of the founders, I try to do a couple major maintenance periods per year. Currently I am working on updating all the community projects built, still got quite a few to add but currently there is -> https://jsonresume.org/projects/ https://jsonresume.org/projects/ I think over 3k+ people use the new Gist hosting. (In our old hosting we had around 10k resumes. Not including those who by pass the free community hosting) === On a personal note, I've loved having my resume in a standard; - Depending on what type of company/person I am applying to I will change my theme on the fly. (Startup vibes I will make it look hipster, if it's a more formal role I will use a simple black and white theme) - I use to lose my most recent resume constantly, having it in a Gist called resume.json that I just edit seems to have solved that for me. - Hopefully one day a standard will get integration adoption so I can just upload my resume.json and not have to fill out the same form fields a hundred times.
- faitswulff 5y ago
  Hey thanks for maintaining this project! I have been using it this round of applications and it’s just so much more convenient than trying to edit a historical doc(x) file with a rotating cast of word editors over the years.
- thomasfromcdnjs 5y ago
  List of resume.json's on gist.github.com -> https://gist.github.com/search?l=JSON&o=desc&q=resume.json&s=updated https://gist.github.com/search?l=JSON&o=desc&q=resume.json&s...
- mkdirp 5y ago
  Why JSON? Why not YAML or something more easily editable by a human?
  - thomasfromcdnjs 5y ago
    Could of went either way really, YAML is a superset of JSON, so in theory, you can switch between them at any time. I think we wanted JSON at the time because it just relied on less extra packages when working inside of the JS ecosystem. So yeah, if anyone wants to make a resume.yaml, we only need to add an extra step to convert it to json for them to use any of the tooling.
theelous3 5y ago
My cv is and has been a yaml file for quite some time. Much more readable and presentable than json, natively.
freddie_mercury 5y ago
That's not really a "universal format", though. That's an "English language format". Actually, it's an "American format" since I see it specifies "organization" instead of "organisation". Why should resumes in Vietnam or China be using English, after all.
- berkes 5y ago
  Doesn't that hold true for any standard though? In HTTP we have Get, Put, Post, Delete, Patch or Options and not obtenir, mettre, poster, supprimer, corriger, options. Yet the French use the web all the time, as do Chinese or Maui. It would not be about how the fields are named, but about localised concepts. Maybe there are societies that have some educational concept which western Americans cannot fathom, but which is crucial on a CV there. This,implies the standard needs to be flexible, extensible and localised. Which kindof defeats having a standard.
  - freddie_mercury 5y ago
    That's fair point. But normal French people aren't interacting with HTTP directly in any meaningful way. (More snarkily: they're using browsers built by Americans to connect to webservers built by Americans.) But I imagine that 99% of people who use json-resume today are interacting directly with it. So I suppose that parallel suggests it depends on whether there's a realistic expectation of WYSIWYG editors for any kind of universal resume format. Which I think seems incredibly unlikely.
- CalRobert 5y ago
  That's true of the fields in the JSON, but for what it's worth you can output your resume in templates for any language you like. I've updated mine to use Hiberno English for instance.
petarb 5y ago
This is great, thank you for sharing. I love the idea of defining the data once and then having different templates and layouts to choose from. Very CSS Zen Garden.
tomcat27 5y ago
I came across this before. wish it's an accepted format on job portals. A challenge I see is -- resumes change wildly by industry. a tech resume is totallly different from an actor's resume.
- berkes 5y ago
  Do you think this is so different that no formal spec can ever carry the common denominator?
  - tomcat27 5y ago
    https://www.cityheadshots.com/blog/acting-resume https://www.cityheadshots.com/blog/acting-resume check this out but I think this complexity can be handled. I totally support json resumes.

spondyl 5y ago

I used a JSON resume once and I like the idea. It didn't help when I had to apply for an unemployment benefit (while still trying to enter the industry) and they asked for my resume as a word document. As you can imagine, I felt like a clown trying to explain that I didn't have a word document because my resume was generated from a JSON file. I did, however, have a PDF on a USB drive I always kept on me but they refused to accept USBs out of fear that I was trying to give them a virus. Eventually the lady processing my application gave up and printed the PDF off that was hosted on my website but also scolded me for not having a word doc. The whole ordeal was pointless anyway since they said they can give me 70% of my rent.

ethbr0 5y ago
tl;dr - HR is underfunded / under-resourced / un-aspirational. Even if there were a turn-key software platform they all used, which natively supported a standard data format, they'd still find a way to screw it up.
version_five 5y ago
I have my resume in markdown so I can create a word/pdf/html etc. with pandoc. It would be possible to write something that parses a json resume into markdown so it could be trivially format shifted
Aeolun 5y ago
My JSON resume is transformed to docx, and only latter to PDF for exactly this reason.
1123581321 5y ago
One of those pdf-to-docx online converters would’ve probably been good enough for this.

thomasfromcdnjs 5y ago

Json Resume is still going strong. I am one of the founders, I try to do a couple major maintenance periods per year. Currently I am working on updating all the community projects built, still got quite a few to add but currently there is -> https://jsonresume.org/projects/ https://jsonresume.org/projects/ I think over 3k+ people use the new Gist hosting. (In our old hosting we had around 10k resumes. Not including those who by pass the free community hosting) === On a personal note, I've loved having my resume in a standard; - Depending on what type of company/person I am applying to I will change my theme on the fly. (Startup vibes I will make it look hipster, if it's a more formal role I will use a simple black and white theme) - I use to lose my most recent resume constantly, having it in a Gist called resume.json that I just edit seems to have solved that for me. - Hopefully one day a standard will get integration adoption so I can just upload my resume.json and not have to fill out the same form fields a hundred times.

faitswulff 5y ago
Hey thanks for maintaining this project! I have been using it this round of applications and it’s just so much more convenient than trying to edit a historical doc(x) file with a rotating cast of word editors over the years.
thomasfromcdnjs 5y ago
List of resume.json's on gist.github.com -> https://gist.github.com/search?l=JSON&o=desc&q=resume.json&s=updated https://gist.github.com/search?l=JSON&o=desc&q=resume.json&s...
mkdirp 5y ago
Why JSON? Why not YAML or something more easily editable by a human?
- thomasfromcdnjs 5y ago
  Could of went either way really, YAML is a superset of JSON, so in theory, you can switch between them at any time. I think we wanted JSON at the time because it just relied on less extra packages when working inside of the JS ecosystem. So yeah, if anyone wants to make a resume.yaml, we only need to add an extra step to convert it to json for them to use any of the tooling.

theelous3 5y ago

My cv is and has been a yaml file for quite some time. Much more readable and presentable than json, natively.

freddie_mercury 5y ago

That's not really a "universal format", though. That's an "English language format". Actually, it's an "American format" since I see it specifies "organization" instead of "organisation". Why should resumes in Vietnam or China be using English, after all.

berkes 5y ago
Doesn't that hold true for any standard though? In HTTP we have Get, Put, Post, Delete, Patch or Options and not obtenir, mettre, poster, supprimer, corriger, options. Yet the French use the web all the time, as do Chinese or Maui. It would not be about how the fields are named, but about localised concepts. Maybe there are societies that have some educational concept which western Americans cannot fathom, but which is crucial on a CV there. This,implies the standard needs to be flexible, extensible and localised. Which kindof defeats having a standard.
- freddie_mercury 5y ago
  That's fair point. But normal French people aren't interacting with HTTP directly in any meaningful way. (More snarkily: they're using browsers built by Americans to connect to webservers built by Americans.) But I imagine that 99% of people who use json-resume today are interacting directly with it. So I suppose that parallel suggests it depends on whether there's a realistic expectation of WYSIWYG editors for any kind of universal resume format. Which I think seems incredibly unlikely.
CalRobert 5y ago
That's true of the fields in the JSON, but for what it's worth you can output your resume in templates for any language you like. I've updated mine to use Hiberno English for instance.

petarb 5y ago

This is great, thank you for sharing. I love the idea of defining the data once and then having different templates and layouts to choose from. Very CSS Zen Garden.

tomcat27 5y ago

I came across this before. wish it's an accepted format on job portals. A challenge I see is -- resumes change wildly by industry. a tech resume is totallly different from an actor's resume.

berkes 5y ago
Do you think this is so different that no formal spec can ever carry the common denominator?
- tomcat27 5y ago
  https://www.cityheadshots.com/blog/acting-resume https://www.cityheadshots.com/blog/acting-resume check this out but I think this complexity can be handled. I totally support json resumes.