HackMyResume is a dev-friendly, local-only Swiss Army knife for resumes and CVs

Thanks, I missed that too. Cool to see Hendricks as the example content.

I posted an HTML link above from the project's main website.

I'd like to see a PDF, too, although I put an HTML example above.

You're right, thanks. Will update.

Just wanted to second this. It really depends on your velocity -- 6 month consulting gigs or 5+ year stints with a single company. After five or so years of short-term consulting for example you're looking at 20+ entries for work history alone, not counting mentionable side projects, service, other items. And you're a tech candidate so it's got to be keyword-optimized. Recruiter X wants it in MS Word, employer Y wants it in their proprietary ATS, employer Z you have direct access to the devs and can use the LaTeX "secret handshake". Then the anonymized HTML version for your blog, etc. So you get this explosion of formats and, if you edit each format manually, a quick resume update can take all day. Let alone a redesign.

Problem is, your CV should be optimised for the format in which you are looking at it. A Word and PDF version should be no more than 2 sides of A4, with the page break at a logical place. HTML should be interactive, with widgets that show relevant content.

Web design is fundamentally different to print design, and your CV should show that you understand that. So you should be able to make a Word version save that to PDF, then re-write and redesign the content for the web page.

This is the OP sample: http://please.hackmyresume.com/jane/resume

It's certainly a step up from a docx but just not that great of a template based on the criteria I named.

It seems to me the template itself is the most important differentiating characteristic of a product like the OP. I understand it accepts custom templates, but that one above is the only sample I found.

Here's my own old-school resume with the DeCorte template: http://static.coshx.com/kopley_resume.pdf

It would really save me time in understanding who to talk to first. Would it impact the final decision? No. But it would certainly help me prioritize candidates. It is really time consuming to go through 120 resumes to see who you want to talk to first (especially when you also have a day job of delivering software).

Even if one is able to build a rock solid format for CVs/resumes that is queryable, including i18n support, there is still the issue of adoption which is the hard part.

You'll need early adoption by large employers such as big tech companies to governments for it to have potential to reach critical mass and make you become an acquisition target by Applicant Tracking System vendors.

I usually think of myself as someone with an above-average tolerance for unpleasant shlep work, but that sounds like incredibly boring work.

ATS?

HR XML has a lot of tooling around it: http://www.hropenstandards.org

I'd be tempted to make an image of the PDF and insert it into a Word document so it fills the page, but that would probably have broken their workflow (Word's inline comments, perhaps) and dropped me straight into the reject pile.

That kind of inflexibility seems like a good signal that you might not want to work there anyway.

I don't think I've seen a job that required Word since about 2009, and back then I wasn't using LaTex so I didn't have the problem but don't any of the LaTex to word tools or services I see around work?

latex2html -> html2rtf

I've used that for years. No problems, though the odd jobsite's commented on formatting, giving me an opportunity to explain the generator ;-)