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Rate my résumé, I think it's quite good.

robeastham.mightycv.com

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I hate to have to point this out, but what he is saying is 'Check out my cool resume site that can host resumes, here is a code to sign up for beta' not literally 'Critique my resume I used for testing on my site'

Your skill list is dumb. I learned JSON in twenty minutes. That's not a skill.

Also: skill: news.ycombinator.com ??

Clearly you missed the point which is that he is trying to promote his new site mightycv

Martin is right, but I did want some feedback on the first draft of my résumé too.

I agree my skills list does look bad. Just listing a selection of gems and mentioning a few website does not a skill set make. I'll take a look today and try and improve things. Thanks for the feedback.

If any of you guys actually go and sign up for a Mighty CV I must apologise if you encounter a fail whale when you try to view your résumé. This is most likely to happen if you use the LinkedIn importer to create your résumé.

My number one priority tomorrow is to squash whatever bug is causing this. Pretty sure it's to do with blank months in the LinkedIn profile. Hope you don't encounter the bug but just thought I should mention it. Any feature request you have please ad via the uservoice feedback button. Thanks!

Feedback purely on the résumé. I noticed at least the following upon a quick look:

* Several run-on sentences with too many "and"s; otherwise wordy as well--too wordy; too many buzzwords; you use the word "sector" too much

* Say "technology" rather than "tech"

* It's "MacBook Pro" and "OS X" (upper-case B and space between S and X)

* You dabble _in_ something

* "I also hope it showcases it might lead": I think you mean "what might lead"

* "one half of a team of two" (sounds redundant)

* "Ryan B's nifty generators": apostrophe

* I would punctuate "etc", but it's acceptable usage to omit the "."

Trim and tighten it, a lot.

Your skill list makes you look like a noob, which I suspect you are not.

Btw: There is a broken link to http//mightycv.com under "Experience" (in the first entry), which doesn't work because of the missing colon.

Thanks to you and others for the broken link report. Fixed now.

The consensus seems to be that my skill list sucks. I've modified it a little, but I think there's still room for improvement.

RE: your GitHub section on the right hand side. I couldn't care less how many repos you're watching. I care about what you're committing, its quality, and general use by some (any) community.

However, putting such details into a CV is way, way too specific, IMO. From a perspective of a recruiter, they have literally 30 seconds to be impressed by your CV. How are they possibly going to be able to evaluate the quality of GitHub commits from the top two or three screenfuls of your CV? As an alternative, consider adding links to particular GitHub commits as proof of some skills, e.g.

"I've added end-to-end encryption to ZeroMQ, here's the GitHub commit and a blog post to prove I'm not a charlatan".

Thanks for the feedback. Though currently Mighty CV doesn't actually display the number of repos watched. My feeling was that listing the last five repos watched would act as a top line indicator as to what someone was currently working on or interested in. The link to your real github profile provides a much better way of showing your activity than can fit in Mighty CV sidebar. That said, I really like your idea of allowing for a couple of handpicked choice commits. I'll give some thought to how to integrate this.

Also my choice to use watched items rather than commits stems from my assumption that there are more non active github users, lurkers if you will, watching repos than actively contributing to them. People like me who don't commit or contribute as much as they should probably still watch a lot of stuff. There are likely many reasons for lack of commits from folks such as myself. These could range from lack of time and/or confidence to things like work and family commitments etc. For me I know it's something I need to work on finding the time for, I really hope that I'm able to do this sooner rather than later.

The sign up link points at http://http://www.mightycv.com/users/sign_up

jQuery is particular about it's capitalization. :)

What about grammar?

OMG so pwned. :)

This is a pretty cool service! The link to your own service sign-up page is broken though (the link right before the offer code).

You have a broken link in the first section under "experience". Just a little typo (forgot the : in http://www.mightycv.com/users/sign_up)

Seems a little too wordy to me -- perhaps more content could be hidden behind 'click to expand' sections?

IMHO the résumé is pretty good and the site is awesome. #nitpicking: capitalize the 'B' in MacBook

Personally I'm not a big fan of the bait linky nature of the title. The service looks useful, but I'm not a huge fan of said skill list...

Apologies for the link bait nature of the title. I'm a bit new to the business of self promotion. Perhaps I sometimes get carried away when dreaming up ways to get Mighty CV noticed.

Agreed - skills list looks lame. Time to refactor.

I stopped reading when I saw "Macbook Pro" in the 'Skills' section.

If you're talking about a social resume-rating site, my own, simple resume is much easier on the eyes. Also: photographs?

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