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Real Resume Examples from 1000's of Top Paid Professionals

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11 pointszthomas15 comments

This is pretty clearly spam, right? These aren't examples from exemplary professionals, these are examples of one particular CV tool in action.

And they don't even look very good, they're all very "try hard" resumes. I'm assuming real top-paid professionals have conservative resumes clearly stating their accomplishments, without the unnecessary flash & pizzazz.

Not sure how this made it to the front page of HN....

US based recruiter. Wow.. they realy covered all kind of templates, but some of these are just bad imo. ~10 bullet points for one role, just titles and an about me section, centering format for sections (just find it irritating, personal thing).

Overall feel for the site, meh. It's just templates, but doesn't really teach you what makes an effective resume. I would look up Ramit Sethi and his advise about making every bullet point count.

A resume is a medium, it represents you and helps you get that initial call. Realistically, networking is much more effective to get your information in front of people.

Developer for VisualCV here. It's user generated content and people like to express themselves in strange ways I must say. A lot of people were asking us for real resume examples from high end professionals so we build an curated highlights of some of top public CVs hopefully you guys at HN find it useful.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, this is a site selling resume creation tools/services, so I'm not sure how "real" or generalizable these examples are. It's less "these are real resumes" and more "look how your resume could look if you gave us money!"

Incidentally, a lot of these look kinda bad, and I certainly don't want to see how badly they turn out when printed on a B&W printer.

Also I think the title should be edited to make it clear that this seems to be advertisement by the person who created the website.

It's weird to see photos on resumes. I know this is standard practice in the UK and other places, but it would be illegal to request it in the US.

Also, is having a sort of stylish resume a thing in Europe?

Not that I know - and if you look at the "european standard" cv format [1, 2], that's all but stylish :)

[1] https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/documents/curriculum-v...

[2] https://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/en/documents/curriculum-v...

Wow, are photos that common in the UK? I've never done that, nor seen it, but then I've not been on the labour force that long (~5 years).

From what I've seen, yes. Also common to marital status, citizenship, sometimes even equivalent of Social Security Number, driver's license info as well.

Basically all you would need to steal a person's identity.

What? I've got 10 CV's sitting on my desk in front of me right now and none of them have photos or any of the things you've mentioned above, except citizenship.

It's definitely not common in the UK; the only time I have seen it over the past few years is the CVs of continentals applying for jobs (particularly in London, since there are many more Europeans settled there, and usually Germans).

Marital status and driving license status is common; NI number not so much (but it's not as valuable as a SSN). Citizenship is definitely important; employers are on the hook to ensure the right to work.

Having designed resume is more common in europe. US is the only country that seems to be kind of anti-profile photos. But startups and small-mid sized companies don't seem to care

One reason I wouldn't request photos in the US is to help avoid claims of discrimination.

Interestingly, the company that is trying to get this business is in Vancouver, BC not Europe.

Or do it with Latex :)

Here's mine:

https://github.com/cies/resume

And over at ShareLatex you can modify it into your own without ever installing it!

woo-hooo semweb :D nice resume

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