Fantastic idea and looks like it might be nice implementation, just not enough detail on the product for me to sign up and have a play.
No ToS, no privacy statement, nothing. Who are you?
Also:
1. Can I mark my account as hidden until I want people to see it?
2. What will you do with my data? Note, with LinkedIn it's pretty clear what they're going to do from the get-go just because of the nature of the service, with this there's nothing. Are you going to sell my details to recruiters? If so can I opt out? Do I have to pay rent if I do? Note some people won't care (perhaps a lot), this community is a bit of an outlier when it comes to privacy concerns.
3. What domain will I have, can I use my own?
4. Can I change the default style (as the example isn't really to my tastes)
Edit: One last thing, a full size example would be good too. You must have your own?
I'm working on adding relevant policy pages now. Building the site sounded more fun :)
Resumes are hidden until shared with people by giving them the URL. Everyone has a business card, which is public. I'm planning on making it so you can choose to have a resume replace your business card.
There seems to be no style options and no domain/URL options. You just fill in boxes and it generates a random URL after your username as the resume. You can have more than one resume with different random URLs.
There's a LinkedIn import button to grab your list of employers and dates of employment, but it somehow gave me the wrong dates.
I think the random string is clever. My first instinct would be that you should be able to reach it at http://resume.io/dangrossman, but then if someone is familiar with the service they could circumvent the tracking URLs.
On the other hand, having a human friendly URL might be nice in the long run for easily finding people. Definitely a tradeoff.
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.
What 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.
Well. 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.
Not bad, a nice simple hosted resume solution. I'm not a designer but it seems to me that the visual distinction achieved by the indentation on the left side of resume items could be improved a bit. It all seems kind of mashed together and somehow hard on the eyes.
As mentioned in another comment, http://re.vu is a totally different approach that attempts to enable slick display of a ton of information.
I still prefer what I currently use: Markdown + pandoc + github + bit.ly. That gives me the following:
1. Version control, backup and hosting from Github.
2. Plain text for posting in the occasional web form or whenever else I might need a plain text resume.
3. One-command conversion to PDF using pandoc with a very simple LaTeX header (which I could automate with git hooks if I was lazy enough).
4. One-command conversion to HTML using pandoc, with a CSS file. I can jazz up the CSS and then print to PDF from my browser if I ever want something prettier.
My resumes are typically tweaked to be job specific. Do I get to create just one generic apply-to-all copy?
How about tracking metrics other than just views? Following http://paulbutler.org/archives/experiment-in-testing-my-resu... there are: how far into resume one scrolls, clickthroughs on embedded links, inclusion/exclusion of sections (e.g. grades for recent grads).
I guess it seems like "make a business version of X" is always sensible, so maybe this is like the business version of http://about.me/ ?
Personally, the resume process whenever I have applied anywhere has been: (1) make a beautiful resume in LaTeX, (2) export beautiful LaTeX resume to PDF, (3) get asked for an MS Word Doc or plain text so they can put it in their recruitment system.
Does passively posting a resume work for people? Does it lead to actual good recruiter interactions, rather than noise? Or is this for freelancers?
I agree that your job search has to be active. Check out http://workastic.com. I wrote it so that people know exactly what to do when they are looking for a job (the secret: activate your network and get referrals to the companies you want to work at).
It has the same idea of tracking who sees your resume, and more importantly, who does what with it.
Better seems very subjective. I spent more time trying to figure out how to read a re.vu candidate's charts and visualizations than quickly digesting useful information about the candidate.
I am a fan of exploring portfolios. I am not a fan of exploring resumes. Especially when I would like to flip through a few hundred quickly.
Tried it out, excellent execution. The Linkedin import is a killer.
But, what's the use case for a product like this? I mean, I had my CV on Linkedin for ages. Same goes for most of the professionals I know.
How does a product like this one - and the others mentioned in the comments - position itself in a space dominated by Linkedin and personal web sites (such as flavors.me)?
I'm curious of that too. What's the differentiator? If it's just that it's 'simple' then why not just create a simple facade over sites like LinkedIn (full disclosure I work there)? What incentive do users have in the long run to maintain yet another site with information about them. At some point after undergrad I went around tracking down all those about-me sites that accumulated around the net and had outdated or completely erroneous information. I get the feeling this would stale in the same way.
I have mixed emotions about this post. It's both really frustrating & reassuring for me at the same time. I've been working (with a partner) on a very similar concept for the past couple of months.
Though I'd say that the features of ours are far more developed (we're implementing most of the ones I've seen suggested in this post); you're first to market. I guess the list of MVP features we've been working towards was just a little too long. Lesson learnt.
Sigh! I'll just have to get that signup page finished a little bit quicker.
Resume.io looks very simple but too simple for me. I have been fiddling around with re.vu and am very impressed. I like the ease of creating interesting infographics and attaching my work. re.vu easily creates something that gives an employer an instant insight into who I am instead of just a name on a page of text.
I was hoping it would act as a linkedin importer with impression tracking. The thing I like about linkedin is that I keep that information updated anyway and if anyone needs to pull a resume they can do so from my profile. This, while nice, is more work - which makes it not all that useful.
Another question (not just for you, but all online resume sites): How do you do identity management? I mean if I really wanted it, I could fake someones name, address, phone, (even photo, if that option would be available) etc easily, insert some false facts about education and work history and then let people start to google for it. I mean, you could always file a removal request, if you might stumble upon such a (your) faked profile, but you would have to ensure somehow, that the requester is the right person this time.
Or am I missing some mechanism to prevent this sort of identity thefts?
Hey everyone. I'm pretty new to Hacker News, but I had a friend refer me to this chat. I'd like to throw my own site into this conversation for feedback. I've recently launched resume site called Kareer.me. Its sort of in between resume.io and re.vu in terms of features. The main difference is that our site is more focused on the process of the job search, allowing job seekers to make individual resumes for each job application. Resumes are traceable and private.
I created an online resume using re.vu and found it to be very easy. The thing I like the most is the fact that it can be updated and shared quickly. There are some limitations, but that is mostly on the analytics side (an email from the CEO informed me that deeper analytics are coming soon.
I think the move to infographics helps tell a more complete story. It took me about an hour to complete my re.vu profile. I've shared it with some colleagues and all would use this to learn more about a candidate. I think the devil is in the details.
Looks good. I signed up to play around with it. One thing that confused me at first was the resume link appends a random string of letters after your account. So my resume is at http://resume.io/gabe/staujevooc.
I thought "Staujevooc" was a last name and my account got confused with someone else's.
Can the randomly generated string be numbers instead? I don't want to send out that link to someone and have them ask, "Who is Gabe Staujevooc?"
Cool idea though I wonder if you apply to a job at say a large Co or firm, most likely the resume will be looked at printed/copied into word/outlook and mailed around - smart tracking system thwarted though this is more for targeted resume applications.
Other issues is that many sites/firms etc require word or pdf resumes and are skeptical (at least for most non techie positions) of anything that is neither.
Clean and simple, just how I like it. Nice work on the LinkedIn importer.
Edit: Forgot to add, some more explicit privacy options would be cool. Also the "card" on the homepage (http://resume.io/{username}) seems to not be working correctly(?)
No ToS, no privacy statement, nothing. Who are you?
Also:
1. Can I mark my account as hidden until I want people to see it?
2. What will you do with my data? Note, with LinkedIn it's pretty clear what they're going to do from the get-go just because of the nature of the service, with this there's nothing. Are you going to sell my details to recruiters? If so can I opt out? Do I have to pay rent if I do? Note some people won't care (perhaps a lot), this community is a bit of an outlier when it comes to privacy concerns.
3. What domain will I have, can I use my own?
4. Can I change the default style (as the example isn't really to my tastes)
Edit: One last thing, a full size example would be good too. You must have your own?