As mentioned several times, Github is not your resume. At the very least, it's not mine. Sure, I have a github profile, but the little side projects there don't really have anything to do with my professional work (most recently, data deduplication and video processing).<p>Also, LaTeX can produce much, much better resumes than markdown. Here's a link to my (extremely dated) resume using the moderncv template: <a href="http://jsaxton.com/resume.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://jsaxton.com/resume.pdf</a><p>It's great for a number of reasons:<p>1: It immediately gets the attention of the hiring manager, since it looks way better than the typical MS Word resume.<p>2: It's really easy to edit. If I want to add an item, I just add "/item Did X". It's great.<p>3: It's plaintext, so you can throw it in git, which is really nice. Since I don't want the public to know if I'm updating my resume, I keep my resume in a private git repository (the same private repo where I keep all my Coursera work).
No it's not. Github only shows an extremely small portion of the story. If you plan to be seen as a straight code monkey - sure. My github is practically empty because I'm doing high quality work that people would prefer I not share. Also, github doesn't capture much more than the capability to slign code.
Glad to see some pushback on this whole "Github is your resume" thing. I know I'm not the only person whose employer demands that their code be kept closed-source. My Github profile is full of weird little experiments and is definitely not meant to be some kind of polished, "hey please hire me!". Feel free to ask me about what's in there, but it's not some kind of showcase of my best work. Everything in there (that's public) is just stuff I've done for fun.<p>I feel like programmers should all realize this, which makes me think that the people that are going to be "judging" based on what's in there are not exactly people that are equipped to know if I'm a good programmer or not anyway.
I wouldn't state it as intensely as justizin, but I agree with him. ~60% of programmers I'd call first to work on a project with me don't even have a github account.<p>Github is a great resume if you're young and don't have real work experience, if you want to change "tracks" and show you have skills in a different domain, or if you really love and support open-source.<p>I guess it's a self-resolving problem as companies who take not having github activity as a negative probably aren't places people without github account would want to work anyway.
Here's mine, <a href="http://philcv.com/" rel="nofollow">http://philcv.com/</a>. It's also generated from Github and a simple push to gh-pages has changes up. It's HTML, but modular and would be easy enough to convert the chunkier bits of text to markdown.<p>If you hit print you'll get a stylesheet suitable for distributing a PDF... or printing.<p>You can even change the colour theme with the left/right arrow keys, but that's just to help me pick a colour scheme, rather than a feature of the CV itself.
Why not keep your resume as pure git repo? That's more in the spirit of git, no? That way you could even track ppl's CV for updates. (More of a joke than a real CV <a href="https://github.com/kidd/Me" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kidd/Me</a> )
Honestly, Ohloh works far better as a resume than Github; the vast majority of the projects I contribute to live elsewhere.<p>Even better, though, I have a real resume, much of which consists of a section "Open Source Project Experience": several paragraphs explaining the biggest projects I've contributed to, what I've done, and how that work is significant. That section in particular works <i>very</i> well with potential employers/interviewers. THat works far better than just saying "there's my work over there, evaluate it yourself".
Wow - there is a lot of hating going down here, and it took me a while to work it out. The majority seems to be "But <i>my</i> employer won't let me Open Source my work". Well, yes.<p>We are entering a world where companies will have to compete to hire harder than ever before. Coding is a job that <i>can</i> be done anywhere in the world - so if they want to hire the "best" the companies need to be the most attractive.<p>OR ...<p>They need to guarantee low risk.<p>If you work in a company that does not expect to release some work product as open source, then it is not a company that is going to compete on that world stage.<p>If so then look at its approach to keeping employees safe and risk free - no layoffs, a nice profitable niche to exploit, no exploitation, no crazy deadlines, nice low turnover of staff.<p>If the company you work for is not competing for talent, nor is it giving you low risk in return for your work, then I strongly suggest you update your CV, on github or not.<p>PS<p>JoshTriplett comments are the sanest - in short "I have a github account for bugs I fix on major projects. I put that in my normal CV along with <i>why what I did was important</i>"<p>Now that is how to use a github account. I have some catching up to do.
Github is not your resume.<p><a href="http://osrc.dfm.io/" rel="nofollow">http://osrc.dfm.io/</a><p>You can generate an open source report card based on your profile, but you should not see github as your CV:<p><a href="https://blog.jcoglan.com/2013/11/15/why-github-is-not-your-cv/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.jcoglan.com/2013/11/15/why-github-is-not-your-c...</a>
Nice to see this getting some publicity. The markdown-resume-js project that this uses is based on my own markdown resume project at <a href="https://github.com/there4/markdown-resume" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/there4/markdown-resume</a>.<p>It's a project that generates both html and pdf versions of a resume written in markdown. It's distributed as a phar file so you can keep a copy in your bin folder and just keep your resume.md in it's own repo.<p>This was originally a way to experiment with css descendant selectors and learning more about the capabilities of wkhtmltopdf. It's limited compared to LaTex, but it's reasonable for a simple resume.
Quite opposite. Github is an anti-resume for dedicated hackers. You should not mention it, if you want to get 'normal' job in some corporation.<p>- github shows you spend too much time programming outside of daily job<p>- it shows how much more productive you are outside of work, possibly creating some uncomfortable questions for your boss.<p>- running project with 10K+ users could interfere with your daily job<p>- companies prefer younger 'not so much' experienced people who just follow<p>- most companies have strict ban on any open-source activities outside of job, advanced Githubers are filtered out even before interview.
You'd have to be a goddamn idiot to put your phone number and email address directly into a git repo or gist.<p>I get enough spam from recruiters on LinkedIn thank-you-very-much.
What do you all do when they require it to be in Word, then? While I could just have a resume on at my personal site, about 99.9999999% of every job I've ever applied for, through a recruiter or not, has required my resume in Word format.<p>Also, I have several resumes, depending on the role of the job I'm applying/striving for.<p>But I appreciate the sentiment of using GitHub for a document version manager.
I have a dedicated email for my Github profile. Interestingly, I've received several unprompted job offers at that email, which is not the email listed on my resume. So there are at least some groups (most of these were startups) who may be hiring based off Github profiles alone.
Depends on the company. The majority of companies that I work with would not even have heard of github, much less know how to extract information from it (in any meaningful sense).<p>A smaller percentage wouldn't care one way or the other.<p>The idea that github is a resume is, to my mind, wishful thinking at best.
I am using rst2pdf and github for keeping my resume.
<a href="http://github.com/ragsagar/resume" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/ragsagar/resume</a>
is it possible to get this resume exported to Pdf? I might consider it in that case, but i dont really have that much trouble using Latex and it really is quite beautiful once it comes out. Thanks Latex template makers!