How do you store and maintain your CV/resume over time?
What do you use for it?
It's available at https://hire.jvt.me
Like many things with me (https://www.jvt.me/salary/) I wanted my CV to be public, and something I could keep continually updated (like my blog https://www.jvt.me/posts/)
It's been a hugely positive thing for me personally, as I can regularly go in and add new things I've shipped or am proud of
When you go to print it, there's a reduced view (using media queries for print stylesheets) so I can be verbose for humans reading on the Web, but provide a limited version for submissions
Implementation wise, it's plain HTML + CSS, no templating or processing, just hand written HTML
You create a gist called resume.json and it automatically get's render by the registry e.g. https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis
Convenient because it is versioned, editable and hosted (forever-ish) by Github.
- Cleverly styled to render like this: https://leftium.com/resume
- The git repo will eventually also host a portfolio of my work.
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Before, I just kept my resume in a MS Word document.
I also have a “current” resume that gets reviewed every quarter and a folder with the descriptions of major projects in STAR format.
It’s already designed as a document format and gives me full control, exports seemlessly to PDF when needed, lets me do nice little progressive enhancements moving from paper to the screen.
Overall, I’m really happy with the process. Would recommend if that’s in your skillset.
This way I have all past iterations (I try to keep it at 2 pages, so every now and then I need to cut out stuff, but I want to keep those old bullet-points in case I need to bring them up to match some job reqs)