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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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!
@TOS linked from sign up page (<a href="https://www.visualcv.com/www/site_information/professional_terms_of_use.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.visualcv.com/www/site_information/professional_t...</a>): 404...<p>@CV samples (<a href="https://www.visualcv.com/cv-templates/best/resume-samples" rel="nofollow">https://www.visualcv.com/cv-templates/best/resume-samples</a>): layout borked in horizontal view on chrome 38.0.2125.114 for android 4.4.4. Ref: <a href="http://imgur.com/x105xgA" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/x105xgA</a><p>General thoughts: it wasn't (or rather isn't) immediately obvious for tipsy-me what payment model you are going for (subscription I persume?) or how much this service is going to cost me. I'd rather not have to sign up to acquire this information. If this service is free, please state it clearly on the sign up page and tell me what your business model is. If on the contrary it is not, tell me what you plan to charge me before I sign up.
What a great idea & execution.<p>As a programmer, I manage my resume on my github pages where can bring many benefits. - eg. make a new branch for a new company, easily add/remove related projects, install google analytics for checking who is interested in me, and so on.<p>Recently I've needed to submit my resume to several companies. What I surprised is that they, HR people, wanted only pdf/doc formatted resume even they work for software companies. What a silly.<p>VisualCV can be a proper solution between a old-fashined pdf resume file and too much opened LinkedIn page.
Just duplicated the resume I've been passing around to people that was generated with Word (bad idea, I know)<p>A few issues I noticed:<p>* Line breaks are not kept in a few areas (contact information specifically, might effect other areas)<p>* Free design has a header showing where it was made; PDF has a footer. Is there some way to remove this?<p>Overall, I like it (excluding the two issues shown above). I keep meaning to redo my resume in LaTeX for a while, I'll probably do that still at some point.
I scrolled all the way to the bottom and tapped on the names I saw, but didn't find a link to an example CV. Seems like you should have a link to a demo CV?