Sole developer: VisualCV has been around since 2007, we recently acquired it to tackle some of the major pain points we had with resumes. Resumes currently have terrible formatting and can't be parsed very accurately.

Most people don't know this but recruiters in large corps rarily read through any of the resumes that comes in. Almost all applications are first parsed by one of the four major resume extraction vendors (sovren, resume mirror, burning glass, daxtra) then dumped into an applicant tracking system. Usually a resume is looked at only when someone does a keyword search on their database. While the process does extract majority of the content it still garbles up a lot of sections that people have spent hours painstakingly editing.

The industry seems to be stuck in a crazy process where it takes structured data turn it into a generally unstructured format (pdf, docx) and use another set of service to try to parse it back again.

We have a unique opportunity to actually work with one of the major resume extraction vendors and start to embed hrXML meta data into a pdf resume so that it can perfectly extracted. We are giving all our pro designs away for free for the next week and we'd appreciate any feedback!