Resume Republic – Awesome Online Resume Templates

More than anything, what this makes me want to do is lay out some cash to have an actual designer work on a resume for me. I like nice looking resumes, I kind of want a nicer looking resume, I wouldn&#x27;t mind paying for a nicer looking resume, I don&#x27;t really want one that looks like those that hundreds of other people are using.<p>Perhaps a nice direction for a project such as this is to become more of a marketplace, similar to what you have with WordPress templates. This would mean more template diversity with the ease of use that you probably already provide with your CMS.

LaTeX has a lot of excellent resume templates that don&#x27;t look cluttered or messy and feel pretty clean, IMO. In that vein, WriteLaTeX is a great and free&#x2F;cheap online tool that I think does a fantastic job of getting you up and running with editing: <a href="https://www.writelatex.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.writelatex.com&#x2F;</a><p>Here&#x27;s a resume I made with WriteLaTeX, for example: <a href="http://goo.gl/30bBSM" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;30bBSM</a>

It seems the best way to go get a clean a resume is to subscribe to adobe CC and us inDesign. Although it costs money, it really is the best solution, and I think it is well worth the marginal cost. I was very excited to click on your link showing free resume templates, but the templates are way too over the top and there are too many design elements which get in the way of the crucial information. I would argue the templates make it harder to understand the applicants experience, and that is the antithesis of what you want in a resume. I would have to believe those templates would cause eye-rolling in potential HR departments.

I write my resume &#x2F; CV in HTML &amp; CSS and have PhantomJS convert it to PDF. I found this gives great control and lets you style to your hearts content with whatever you can get off the web.<p>Shameless plug - I build a basic setup with Grunt to do live conversion so I can edit the HTML&#x2F;CSS and see the result instantly on save. It&#x27;s also set up to run simple scripts on rasterising, like creating a citations list or adding a &quot;generated on&quot; date <a href="https://github.com/alistairjcbrown/html-pdf-live-conversion" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;alistairjcbrown&#x2F;html-pdf-live-conversion</a>

From the FAQ:<p>How do I delete my account or cancel my membership?<p>{......<p>.. }<p>Standard and Premium users<p>You need to send us a request with the reason why do you want to cancel your membership.<p>^ WTF? Why do I have to give a reason to stop paying for a service? Why not just have an optional feedback form next to a &quot;Delete Account&quot; button.

Beyond the concept of the app which has been touched upon, the thing that jumped out at me as I was flipping through the app site (not the resumes) is that the content is not written all that great. I&#x27;m not claiming to be a grammar nazi, but &quot;publiched&quot; isn&#x27;t a word and I think you&#x27;re missing at least one letter in &quot;whether your resume look good&quot;.<p>My main assumption is that your first language isn&#x27;t English, and that&#x27;s fine, but maybe hire a English speaking copy-editor to help out with such issues?

While I think that the overall idea isn&#x27;t necessarily a bad one, two things jump out at me with the templates that are provided:<p>-Do people really put their photos on their resumes??<p>-Given that resumes are often printed and reviewed in black and white, I think that would undo a lot of the effort that went in to the designs of the templates.<p>In spite of that I think the spirit of having a resume that doesn&#x27;t come from a Word-provided template is worthwhile for job seekers.

Does this actually help?<p>When I&#x27;m asked to help screen resumes for potential new coworkers, I mostly care what skills they think they have and what they&#x27;ve been doing the last few years, or if their grammar is particularly bad I worry about possible communication barriers. Pretty formatting or graphics only matter so far as they make it harder to find those things.

If you don&#x27;t mind using Microsoft Word, these are great looking well designed resume templates<p><a href="http://almagreta.com/resume-templates/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;almagreta.com&#x2F;resume-templates&#x2F;</a>

Anyone can replicate with ease the designs being sold and launch a free competing service with the same (or better) offering. I don&#x27;t see a viable business enterprise here.

Dashboard looks broken on mobile: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/1oiSjYB.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;1oiSjYB.jpg</a>

Looks really nice! Would be great to be able to connect with LinkedIn for example, to save time filling in job details&#x2F;dates etc.

Photos on resume? Ain&#x27;t your look not necessary to get a job in tech?

Quickly looking at the templates on the site, it seems that all of them include a picture. This seems like a bad idea and generally discouraged.