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I like the idea a lot. Things like the photo, the importing from linkedin, the simplicity are nice. One thing that would be cool is to add collapsible sections where someone lists an experience (like welding) and if you open the section it tells much more about this experience (talking at length about the welding job for example). That way people could go over it quickly and if interested read more.

I'd make the link to the example page a little more obvious, I didn't intuitively think I could click on the image for whatever reason.

How does this compare to something like Careers.stackoverflow.com, a little bit more targeted, but arguably better for me as a software engineer...

Why should I go with you guys to show my online resume when I can put a PDF up on my own portfolio website? Where is the value-add for me as a user?

To be honest, you're probably not in the market for this service.

Think of something like About.me (or profile.io/flavours.me etc.), from which I borrow (i.e. steal) liberally. You and me can throw up a big background photo and put some text and a few links as HTML, and call it your personal profile page, although About.me is convenient enough that many people who are perfectly capable of doing that just use it instead.

On the other hand, I can't think of a better crowd to find novel ways to break my app and then tell me about it.

Buggy! You write unit tests, doncha? Saved skills after the first disappeared. UI experience wise, I liked it. Simple, not too busy. Would be nice to be able to change the two disclosure options after having created the account.

Ahhh, I swear I fixed that one! If you come back, holler your browser/version at me.

I'm putting in the account adjustment page tonight sometime.

Also, thanks for the nice words about the UI - that's most of the product, after all.

Google Chrome/Linux/10.0.648

Cool concept, but needs a little more bug testing (which is why you're here, of course :) ). My part: the bottom information for address (city/state/country) get pushed down a line if a photo is uploaded.

Thanks! And yes, that is exactly why I'm here (that and promotion).

>> It is unclear what the advantage is to having a resume on resumatic

>> Can you put a few more sample resumes on the site?

I had that idea a month ago, it seemed very promising. Good luck with it!

Hah, me too.

It's not allowing me to import from linkedin. :/

Hmm, I wonder why. If you get back around here could you let me know what sort of error it gives you?

Worked this time.

Totally my fault, I left it in developer mode. Thanks for letting me know though.

See my link here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2373681

I just had a great thought;

Couple your resumatic with my mechanical turk idea - have people submit their resumes and then your service get mechanical turk to job hunt for them!

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* Just had a thought afterthe article regarding zynga, goog and fb hiring like mad:

What would the results be to exploit mechanical turk to hunt for jobs for you and pay based on leads/interviews.

You have your resume and cover letter and have them seek and submit on your behalf.

I am thinking about changing jobs, I might try this approach to see what type of results I can get.

That's not a bad idea, although the monetization I had in mind involved recruitment more than job-seeking. I feel like charging the business is the way to go here.
Well, that, and like the other guy said, carpet-bombing generic resumes probably isn't the best way to get a job you want.

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