If you're trying to get a job as a graphic designer -- then sure, make a fancy resume. Otherwise, it looks like a total waste of time -- I presume they just paid someone to do it.<p>To me it signals that you don't know what matters -- like using a plastic-binder on a school report.<p>If you could somehow use the design to communicate the content better -- then I'd be impressed.<p>EDIT: I just realized that this site builds the resumes. Again, they look nice, but other than that, I think they don't work any better as a resume than a plain one. In general I like well-designed marketing collateral, but resumes are things to skim and understand quickly -- I'd like to see good designs that accomplish that.
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.
I created my resume in notepad with no formatting. It has served me well.<p>With most job applications now demanding you fill out proprietary forms, I usually have to cut and paste into the fields supplied. I also have a simple pdf version with very minor formatting in case I am handing/emailing the resume to a contact.<p>That being said, this is a cool site, and it is probably useful for people working in artistic fields. Just remember that the content is the important part.
This is one of those things that's so useful it's a wonder it isn't more common. Every job site, resume builder & such should have this.<p>Same goes for business plans, marketing plans, all the various plans and paperwork you need when applying for loans, grants and such.<p>There's probably some benefit to be had in an 'examples or paperwork' site.<p>lawyer pay a lot of money to access samples of all sorts of letters, affidavits, submissions, petitions and whatnot. They're useful.
Are these real resumes? I can see a resume with the headline - "Sustainability Intrapreneur". What's the point of writing such buzzwords in resumes?
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.<p>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.<p>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: <a href="http://legacy.visualcv.com/" rel="nofollow">http://legacy.visualcv.com/</a>
Some of these resumes are just terrible. Just look at the use of carriage returns in Bobbie Workley's CV.<p>A resume should be just a clear and simple representation of you. Fancy does not always mean better.
No results for Programmer? Searching for .NET brings up a 404 error. Does that mean there is no such thing as a top paying job in .NET programming? Argh, I must be doing something wrong. Nothing for Ruby either
I can't find any pricing details on your page before signing up - this is bad practice in my view.
I won't invest time trying out your platform if I have no idea about costs.