The plan is to create a standard that developers worldwide are comfortable enough with to build upon.
To give the standard some traction, we have built tools to export to other formats such as pdf, txt and doc.
We also thought it would be cool and useful to have an NPM like system for resumes. So we built a CLI heavily inspired by NPM, to init and publish your resume to the jsonresume.org registry.
The themes right now are in bad shape, and we are looking for designers who would love to jump in during the early stages. We are thinking of building a theming version manager on top of NPM to take advantage of versions/distribution and also allow theme developers to implement their theming systems however they like (erb, mustache, md etc).
All the code is open source and available at -> http://github.com/jsonresume
Theme developers should be looking at the resumeToHTML repo -> http://github.com/jsonresume/resumeToHTML
People with comments about the standard semantics and structure are encouraged to post their ideas to Github issues. -> http://github.com/jsonresume/resume-schema We also want to formalize the standard a lot more over the coming weeks.
If the project can be pulled off professionally and driven by the community, we believe that working with resumes will be fun!
Edit: Here are some of the reasons why I personally think JSON resumes will improve HR.
(trying to figure out bullet points)
- Better searching and filtering than PDF/doc. Making recruiting a tad easier.
- Applying themes will be a lot easier.
- Applying for jobs will be easier. Instead of filling out complex forms over and over again services might start allowing you to auto-fill with your JSON resume.
- There are many services that ask for your career history such as LinkedIn, Angel.co etc. These could be autopopulated or synced with your master copy.
- You can update your resume programatically so Github projects can be inserted and any other online certificates that you might want automatically added to your resume like Mozilla Open Badges -> http://openbadges.org/
- The comment section suggests that lots of innovation could arise from it.
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Make sure you try the CLI! sudo npm install -g resume-cli