Revitalise your CV – Simple resume-editing tool
cvtalize.com
cvtalize.com
In order for me to use this for my actual CV, at the very least I'd need to be able to re-order the sections (for anyone except new grads, education should be after experience). I'd also need to be able to get nicely formatted ascii txt version of the CV in addition to the pdf.
Being able to pull data from LinkedIn and/or Github would also be nice.
My only issue is with the name. Hard to spell & say; easy to misspell.
Linkedin has since implemented something similar: http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/
Someone who says they're a "5" and gets most of the questions right is a great hire. Someone who says they're a "9" and can barely answer the basics is a huge red flag.
A good programmer should know what they don't know, and not be arrogant.
Usually I'd recommend candidates list items in order of their knowledge, from best to worst, and to use discretion in what to include. If you aren't comfortable having a 5-10 minute conversation about an item, don't list it.
1. This format only works for EU countries. In the US this format is not appropriate. For example, in the US, education is a minor point typically put at the bottom of the resume. Experience and technical acronyms usually take up the most room.
2. While pretty, the amount of white space is wasting precious room to make an impression with. Given that for the first few years only one page is recommended of length, whitespace is very costly in terms of valuable writing real estate.
I almost think you could turn this around into a resume writing wizard which tries to extract valuable information in order to write a BETTER resume. Maybe have a formatting independent input, and then let the user choose for what country they want the output formatted. I think formatting is rarely the issue in most CVs, content however is. Maybe focus on helping people write better resumes.
Most people don't even realize how much they know until you start pointing out things such as experience in certain domains, processes, standards etc.
Whitespace is your friend. It makes resumes much more powerful. Page count is arbitrary. A resume should be long enough, not too short, not too long.
It makes some sense. You're trying to ensure that all the high points in your resume get read by making the reader's job easier. At the same time, re-writing your resume every time you apply to a new job is a tremendous burden, and simply impossible if you want a consulting agency to keep it on file.
[0] http://www.hropenstandards.org/
[1] http://hr-xsl.sourceforge.net/
1. Your background image previews on my "Hover Zoom" chrome extension (opens in overlay like a link to a image [1]).
2. Your star display breaks on my second monitor (19" 1280x1024) at 100% Zoom in Chrome and every setting above that[2] This is in my opinion not acceptable.
3. In "Preview Mode" you can not add anything, but you can still remove parts. Is this intended?
4. Speaking of preview mode... it is not obvious what it does. If you are looking at the button when you click it you don't automatically realize what it does.
That is all for now. Good luck.
[1] http://i.imgur.com/sKO9Xu7.jpg [2] http://i.imgur.com/CYevnvF.png
The repository was full of nice-looking and sometimes funny (in a good way) résumés. One of them even had a nice xkcd comic (http://xkcd.com/378/).
Then the company started to attract bigger customers, and these customers had their own HR departments. The next month, all résumés had to be resubmitted, no formatting, no images, table-based two-column layout.
It took the fun out of an already boring document.
The company I currently work for never asked my résumé, they saw a talk I gave at a conference, they knew my public contributions, and asked me to join them for one day. That was enough to convince them, as it should be.
At the moment you are just demonstrating very clearly that you give a * thinking on user privacy - that is not very clever.
There's not enough space between "John Doe" and "WEB DEVELOPER..." - capital "J" almost overlaps it.
There are also orphaned lines on page two.
I also don't like the abundance of font styles (varying sizes, capitalics, bold...) on one page, although that one is subjective of course. Personally I don't find this elegant.
It needs to be much more customisable - moving, removing and adding sections.
Eg: I'm monolingual but can't remove the languages field.
There's no section for references.
There's no section for website.
There's no way to easily list work samples / project - much more relevant than employer if you're an independent contractor.
Really needs the ability to save and edit later.
I link to my Linked profile now on my personal website in lieu of providing a resume, since I wanted to minimize duplicating content and ending up with an additional document that I've forgotten to update. LinkedIn profiles aren't great as one-page summaries.
Considering that pretty much any content page (news stories, Hacker News, etc.) works just find without JavaScript enabled, this is a wee bit disappointing.
Other feedback: the "x" button that appears when hovering over a removable element seems to get more convex when hovered over, and it loses its rounded edges, turning more boxy. This is on Firefox nightly in Linux.
Also, the skills sections with stars causes the remove (x) icon to reflow the skills section, causing an unsightly jump in the skills. A solution could be to absolutely position the remove button so that it doesn't cause that jump.
Further, the subhead below the name appears to not have enough vertical whitespace separating the two -- this occurs in both the HTML representation and the PDF.
"whether" is spelled incorrectly as "wether".
While the page also seems pretty "responsive" the edit and export tools look awkward at points in between the standard mobile sizes and when it makes the jump to the desktop experience -- specifically, the widths of those panels do not match the width of the résumé preview. There also doesn't appear to be any whitespace between the résumé and further panels.
The contact section also looks awkward in the mobile view -- the icons appear to escape the left margin of the rest of the résumé, and there isn't any whitespace between the name and subhead.
In addition, the capitalization for the editing/export tools is inconsistent -- "Export controls" vs. "Edit Tools", and may be too verbose as labels.
The "ease in" effect for the "Beautiful resumes done in seconds!" seems superfluous to me.
Lastly, the sidebar could probably just stay fixed as the user scrolls through the page, so that it is always available, especially for longer documents.
Wishlist item for me would be an import/export in the native data format for this tool -- plaintext as Markdown (or whatever you are using internally) would be handy, as copying information out of an exported PDF can be challenging.
Even given that it is an app, a static representation of the app along with a "please enable JavaScript to edit" message would be really handy -- at least I could then get an idea of whether I want to edit the document being shown.