[HN Gopher] Show HN: Convert your LinkedIn profile to a resume
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Show HN: Convert your LinkedIn profile to a resume
Author : prodtorok
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-12-11 19:06 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| TripleChecker wrote:
| Neat, but how does it differ from other tools out there? e.g.
| https://www.kickresume.com/en/linkedin-resume-builder/
| prodtorok wrote:
| 1. Our's is a free extension with no login required.
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| 2. It's not clear how these tools grab this data without some
| direct integration with LinkedIn or Violation of their terms
|
| 3. We use AI to craft resume language, Kick Resume is a
| copy/Paste
|
| 4. We provide a word doc you can download and edit yourself.
| j1mmie wrote:
| It froze for me. Stuck on this screen:
| https://imgur.com/a/CH30zoK
| prodtorok wrote:
| hmm weird, do you mind sharing your profile? Or try refreshing
| that page it could be a cloudflare issue... we have to protect
| against the endpoint to avoid financial ddos.
| elliotec wrote:
| Is this better than the "save to pdf" feature on your profile in
| LinkedIn?
| prodtorok wrote:
| Yes, we explicitly aim to enhance what is provided in that PDF;
| providing the same structure of detail.
| phoronixrly wrote:
| Yes, it scrapes your data and retains it an undefined amount of
| time and also feeds it into an OpenAI LLM:
| https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/57845026/full-legal
|
| I have no idea why one wouldn't instantly go ahead and install
| this extension /s
| prodtorok wrote:
| We are very clear about you sharing your data, requiring you
| to select a checkbox. And we are compliant with both
| LinkedIn's and Chrome Web Stores terms about user data.
|
| Also, we do not scrape any data explicitly. At no point in
| time do we read data from the linkedin api nor html.
| drc500free wrote:
| I'm not sure how one would get "AI-Enhanced Professional
| Writing" without feeding it into an LLM. This isn't
| underhanded, it's literally the product being offered.
| derektank wrote:
| I would be shocked if LinkedIn isn't already being scraped
| for training data given Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI.
| Even setting that aside, this is presumably data which you
| have already chosen to share publicly for anyone with a
| LinkedIn account to see. How many people really have concerns
| about sharing it with another third party?
| nramos3 wrote:
| Yea you get an ATS friendly template that isn't a colored
| doubled column resume
| prodtorok wrote:
| Well that, but also enhanced content (we use AI)... and then
| a word document you can actually edit
| smartmic wrote:
| Does anyone still enjoy writing, rewriting and designing their
| own CV by hand, for example using Latex? Shouldn't it be a
| signature, a testament to your sense of individualism and
| craftsmanship?
| alexott wrote:
| I still use muse + emacs lisp to generate my CV into html and
| pdf (via Latex with custom template)
| redeux wrote:
| I stopped caring about that when companies started using
| Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) to evaluate resumes based on
| keywords and other silly criteria without ever having a person
| actually review it.
| themdonuts wrote:
| Fair. But when you land the face to face interview with the
| hiring manager and peers, I think it's still good to have a
| nicely designed CV. And with nicely designed I don't mean
| lots of graphics and colors, but something that was thought
| out to read well.
| ghaff wrote:
| I'm not sure anyone more than glanced at my resume for the
| past few decades. My interviews were basically through
| people I had worked with in some fashion.
| ben_w wrote:
| For what it's worth, there's only one CV in all of
| history that I can remember: the "My Little Pony" themed
| one that went viral around 2013.
|
| When getting feedback about my CV from coworkers, my
| impression is that _very few of the people who personally
| interviewed me ever read my CV before hiring me_ --
| recruiting websites like LinkedIn, Xing, talent.io,
| honeypot.io genuinely seem to have replaced the CV in
| many cases.
|
| (If you're wondering how I managed to get that kind of
| feedback from those specific people, it's all the times
| places have run out of money or the investors wanted a
| completely different direction with no iPhone app).
| ghaff wrote:
| I think that's pretty much the reality for mid+ level
| jobs and it really pisses off people for whom
| "networking" etc. isn't their preferred path.
| pelagicAustral wrote:
| This is one of the things I enjoy the most these days, but I
| also had quite a lot of fun with it back in the day... I just
| looks for designs online and then I reproduce as much as I can
| using other tooling... I enjoy doing this for anything print,
| like magazines and corporate image documents too...
| dylan604 wrote:
| Every now and then, I get an itch from the old days of
| desktop publishing. A while back there was release of a
| "lost" Bram Stoker short that got transcribed to text
| (several players using different methods posting their
| results on github). I fired up InDesign which I had never
| used, and did a book layout of it. All because I was bored
| and wanted to think about something other than ; {} [] for a
| bit. At least I didn't have to fire up the Quadra to run
| Quark!
| bagels wrote:
| Enjoy? Not really, but I do it anyways so it looks the way I
| want.
| szopa wrote:
| I was the founding site lead of a Polish office of U.S. tech
| company, with an initial target of a hundred developers. After
| looking at... many resumes I realized I strongly disliked
| custom resumes. As much as I wanted to appreciate uniqueness
| and creativity, it got in the way. What I really wanted was
| something as standard and easy to read as possible. Ideally a
| LinkedIn profile.
|
| Don't get me started about cute resumes that were written as
| code, etc. I hated them and hated myself for how much I hated
| them.
| ramon156 wrote:
| Something something json resume :)
| neilv wrote:
| I did. I had a nice TeX or LaTeX hand-tuned one-pager. Yes,
| "C++" was a macro, to subdue those ridiculous huge '+'
| characters, there was no Computer Modern Roman, and I made
| countless other tweaks.
|
| But turned out that shitty ATS software was throwing away my
| resume, even though it rendered and text-extracted fine, and
| with normal PDF fonts (not rasterized, like some DVI convertors
| would do).
|
| Though, one time that the resume got me to an interview battery
| at a startup, it was a good conversation-starter with their
| designer, who could tell it was hand-crafted.
|
| Now, I just have a relatively phoned-in two-pager, with lots of
| search keywords, that I do in LibreOffice. To hopefully get me
| found by the right serendipitous
| sourcer/recruiter/manager/founder, and hopefully not have the
| resume discarded if they pop it into some shitty corporate
| hiring pipeline system. Nor mangled too badly, if they parse
| it, and have some people in the process looking only at their
| shitty parser's output in a Web page.
|
| I'd prefer making the most of one page, but sometimes idealism
| has to be flexible to the reality on the ground.
| Vampiero wrote:
| I did mine by hand using plain HTML+CSS (using A4.css, then
| rendered to a 2-page PDF) and my employer remarked that it was
| a sign of attention to detail and care that many other
| candidates won't even bother with.
|
| I'd argue I spent more time trying to fit everything in two
| neat pages than actually writing down the resume.
|
| At least it shows I know flexbox, or something. It's mostly a
| backend position anyway.
| drc500free wrote:
| Unfortunately, I've found a negative correlation between CV
| creativity and candidate quality.
|
| I've got various theories as to why, but in my experience most
| people with non-standard resumes have turned out to be weaker
| candidates than people who just type their stuff into a
| standard template with something approaching the STAR format.
| moshun wrote:
| Real pros are busy solving real problems in my experience,
| taking days or weeks to craft a resume doesn't even occur to
| people at the top typically. I've gotten high level jobs
| without submitting a resume, application or almost anything
| else because the exec recruiters did all of the leg work for
| me. I think a lot of high performers are familiar with that
| too.
| HeyLaughingBoy wrote:
| Nope. It's a list of shit that I've done, organized in the most
| effective way to get someone to hire me.
|
| (I hope that) I'm a far more interesting person than my resume
| would suggest. Unfortunately, no one hiring engineers would put
| that at the top of the list.
|
| I've interviewed enough people to know what matters, so I
| highlight that. The fact that I once fell asleep underwater
| will have to come up at another time.
| urda wrote:
| I do! Using LaTeX is how I track changes to my resume, look at
| historic resumes, and keep it all in commits within git,
| tagging "releases" I send out.
|
| My process is update resume, git commit, git push, then update
| LinkedIn or whatever social site I want beyond that. The LaTeX
| files then become the single-source-of-truth.
| csswizardry wrote:
| https://csswizardry.com/csscv/!
| tokinonagare wrote:
| > using Latex
|
| Sorry no. It took me two days to fix a template I got from the
| internet to display all the writing systems I want. Plus I had
| a manually fix a hardcoded value in the bibliography template
| to use French while I had to use the bibliography in an English
| context so references don't get screwed with space inserted
| before colons. My dissertation is filed
| \foreignlanguage{xxx}{yyy} and \textit and I hate it.
|
| > you should... / git gud
|
| No. I have something to write, in addition to all the other
| things I do, and any time searching for commands or packages
| online to make things work is pure wasted. If Word had a better
| CVS and modular story I would have gladly stick with it.
| Conscat wrote:
| I hand wrote mine as HTML tables. There is custom CSS but imo
| it looks fairly good without CSS (such as inside Emacs).
| http://omg-lily.xyz
| nramos3 wrote:
| Quick extraction, nice resume formatting and free which is cool.
| I know LinkedIn depreciated their free resume builder.
| monsieurgaufre wrote:
| Looks interesting and could not have come at a more convenient
| time for me (.. unfortunetaly). I'll give it a try. Thanks
| prodtorok wrote:
| Hopefully it at least provides a nice place to start from! And
| saves you time...
|
| If it comes out any decent, lmk and we'll give you some credits
| for the paid service. The UX around tailoring resumes isnt as
| intuitive.
|
| You can do some free tailoring on the home page as well, this
| ux is straight forward: cvgist.com
| bitbasher wrote:
| No one is concerned this sends your LinkedIn ID and PDF to their
| own server to "generate" the PDF? Surely that data is being
| stored (and probably sold).
|
| Can you share the github/sourcecode for the extension or unminify
| it? Code shouldn't be minified in V3 extensions anyway.
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