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I think any move towards online resumes is great. It makes no sense that all recuitment is online yet all documents are off-line. I don't keep a resume anymor
by brc 15y ago
I think any move towards online resumes is great. It makes no sense that all recuitment is online yet all documents are off-line.
I don't keep a resume anymore, but on occasion someone asks me for one. I normally tell them I don't have one and point to my site, linkedin page, etc.
A couple of times recently I've been told that 'online resumes are not accepted'. Presumably because they can be changed after the fact. Ie - insert fake job, submit resume, remove fake job. Or something.
Of course, I just use the linkedin export to PDF option and send it to the lazy person shakes fist
But you might want to either (a) have a pdf export for people and/or (b) have a 'guarantee locked version' or something so that people know the version they are looking at hasn't changed since they first saw it.
Yes, I know, it's weird to want to refuse updates to a resume, but apparently people want that. It's more about ass-covering by documentation, but I guess that's what many people are about.
- jacobbijani 15y agoLocking is pretty interesting! Almost like having Resume.io notarize that copy of it. Planning on adding .pdf and .txt export support soon for sure. Thanks!
- prophetjohn 15y agoOr instead of locking it, you could just have a "Last modified" time stamp or a log indicating when modifications were made.
- tseabrooks 15y agoWell. There might be legitimate things that need to be corrected. Spelling / Grammar for instance. Why not have the last modified and a history. Save off the diffs so you can recreate the older versions for potential employers. Another option is that a new revision generates a new random string for the URL and that revision is always available there.
- gizzlon 15y agoWhat about versioning? I don't want all my versions exposed, but an ability to link to a specific version would be nice. Maybe a random url for each version. Your site could then guarantee that old versions can not be changed. Include the date of the version on the page, together with a link to the most recent version.
- JoeAltmaier 15y agoDifferent random url I suppose...