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We spent some time to create a collection of well designed resume templates for Google Docs. They are all completely free to use, hopefully you guys will find them useful.

My bad then, it seems that this post got flagged as well. Somewhere a mod seems to be really against us.

Dude, what do you have against our posts? It's a completely legit post and a lot of people on HN clearly find it useful.

Developer here. Thanks for all the great feedback. VisualCV was actually a really old rails project (built in 2007) that we inherited and completely rebuilt last year.

Our goal for the project is to focus on how to present professional information visually and with UX techniques that we've learned from web development. To us, most resumes are stuffed with a lot of insubstantial text. We wanted to instantly see numbers, results and achievements in a glance. Recruiters generally take a few seconds to screen for key information and indicators of success and we wanted to present all those info with nice visual hierarchy and make it a pleasure to view. Admittedly, I don't think our current designs have hit those targets as well as I've hoped but we do have some exciting designs in the pipeline.

As you browse through the database you might notice that some of the resumes look a bit messy (they are the black on white design with sidebar images). These are mostly legacy users that we had to migrate to our new platform. Their previous resumes looked something like this: http://legacy.visualcv.com/

I only implemented as a simple autocomplete for a simple tag search. We actually have over 1400 tags but only about 140 are actually active for searching, I think that's actually an oversight on our end. You can go to https://www.visualcv.com/resume-samples/directory# for all the tags, rails and .net are both on there

We've posted our resume builder, VisualCV on HN a while back and had got a lot of great feedback. A lot of people wanted to see some real resume samples that others have created so we built a curated database of some of our top public users and ran a script to take a screenshot of all their CVs. Hope you guys find it useful.

Developer for VisualCV here. It's user generated content and people like to express themselves in strange ways I must say. A lot of people were asking us for real resume examples from high end professionals so we build an curated highlights of some of top public CVs hopefully you guys at HN find it useful.

Having designed resume is more common in europe. US is the only country that seems to be kind of anti-profile photos. But startups and small-mid sized companies don't seem to care

Thanks for the feedback. We normally charge subscription but we took off the pay wall this week for promo reasons.

The user owns it. One of the core philosophy for us is that we don't monetize user data (ie opening our database for recruiters to search through).

Right now the user can import through PDF / Linkedin and export to PDF. We'll add more export formats in the future, I think hrXML and json endpoints would be pretty cool

Thanks, will look into it.

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!

Thanks, I was just about to add a quick comment with our link. Here are some samples: https://www.visualcv.com/cv-templates/best/resume-samples Also a list of our designs: https://www.visualcv.com/cv-templates

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