I created and update my resume on GitHub. This is not a normal way but works well for me.
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I personally use markdown to represent my resume on GitHub.
github.com/stephencorwin/resume/bl...
This lets me also declare it as a dependency on my portfolio website. Leveraging
react-markdown, I can output the latest version of my resume on each deployment automatically.github.com/stephencorwin/stephenco...
Live:
stephencorwin.me/resume
It's been working out great for me so far. Glad to see others taking a similar approach.
Thank you for sharing your approach, Stephen.
Markdown is more declarative, maintainable, and elegant way! And you create your own website with interactive user interface with React. You also have your portfolio in it, deploy script and linter. They are what I have to do build as my current goal.
I got great inspiration from your repository. Thanks again!
Thanks! When I was rebuilding it, I never did finished fleshing out the content of my portfolio -- it's a bit stale (4+ years old). I suppose that it is a side effect of no longer searching. Less motivation to update it once you have landed the job. ;)
Feel free to reach out if you have questions. GL on your job search!
Yeah exactly. However, it is even easy for me to update the resume via Git (and hopefully CI).
Thank you very much!
The resume is maintained via GitHub, but also published on npm. Whenever I make an update I can just bump the version number and
npm publish. If the portfolio website is using@lastestin the package.json, redeploying should grab the latest version. You can also just run the commandnpm i --save @stephencorwin/resume@latestto force an update to the latest.Oh, you publish your resume to NPM! I have never imagined it. I have just installed your latest resume on my PC :)
Why do you publish this to NPM?
It's scoped under my tag
@stephencorwinso as to not be confused with others. Part of the reason to use both is so that we can have "source of truth" files that we generate other files from. We don't necessarily want to always publish the generated files on GitHub, but it does make sense to publish them on npm since the audience there intends to use them in projects.Mainly though... It's because I use Zeit Now to host my projects and they do not recognize any "change" when deploying unless I either dockerize the container or version bump the dependency in my package.json.
This is in part due to aggressive caching.
Please note that you can use a GitHub repo directly as a dependency in your package.json though.
"@stephencorwin/resume": "git://github.com/stephencorwin/resume"github.com/stephencorwin/stephenco...
Got it! Nice hack.
Hey, nice resume. Small world, we were at UA for an overlapping time as contractors. I think I vaguely recall seeing you around on Slack or GitHub or something. :)
Lol. Yea, for sure. The interwebs are smaller than we think. :P
Nice!
However I don't think I'll use this approach myself since sometimes, when applying for different jobs, you might want to send out different versions of your cv, emphasizing different skills. And I wouldn't necessarily want all of this to be public ...
Thank you for your comment, shairay.
Yeah, we exactly should do this.
Personally I have never created different versions for different jobs (so I failed to get a job, haha), your opinion bring me other point of view.
Maybe we can create different branches or tags on Git and manage multiple versions for jobs we apply. Basic information would not change so much, and we can update
masterbranch and merge to each branches if some breaking change happened. Thus I think this approach also works in this way :)I know how you feel. We should not make our personal information public. In that case private repository may work, but you do not have to do this paying additional cost!
What I meant is that the rationale of "personalizing" your cv per application also means that you might not be interested in the company you are applying to seeing exactly what changes you made.
Remember, this is your information, and you should exercise care in what you reveal and to whom!
LaTeX & git branches all the way and of course private GitHub project.
resume-kaz-gosho.docx
resume-kaz-gosho_updated.docx
resume-kaz-gosho_2018-04-28.docx
resume-kaz-gosho (1).docx
Hahah,
This was one of the primary reasons for me to move from doc/pdf to GitHub resume.
pratikaambani.github.io
Development in progress....
Thank you for your response, Pratik!
Yeah, we can manage a lot of versions of resume with Git.
By the way, I visited the link and found
Java J2EE Developer, which may make your resume stand out focusing on the specific position. Thanks!Cheers!! :)
Kaz, that's badass! bravo. I like the layout & color scheme and I agree it is an easy way to keep things up to date.
For me with consulting, I have new projects to add a few times per year, so this would be idea. Bookmarked!
Thank you for your reply, Sean!
Great, you can easily add new projects to your resume only with your favorite text editor!
emacs! LOL
Actually lately I've been using sublime text more and more.
I think Emacs is a great editor :) Everything will go with Emacs Lisp!
🙏Amen!🙏
I do the same, except I wrote the whole thing in HTML / CSS and host it in a sub-folder of my Github Pages site. No hosting / deployment overhead...
janvt.io/cv/
github.com/janvt/janvt.github.io
Thank you for the comment.
I have tried that simple approach, but I switched to hosting in Netlify.
The reason is that if we add some build process (like compiling jsx, compress & uglify assets, etc...), we have to commit these files to git.
I always use
webpackor something to bundle my code, so hosting service is necessary for me...But Netliy makes the deployment process quite easy!
For i18n, you could consider a library for that like github.com/fnando/i18n-js and, during build time, create a static rendered html version for each language, just like you do with pdf version.
I personally decided to create a custom CMS-based solution because that can showcase my development skills on Github, such as backend development, some frontend, testing, etc, and still have an easy way to change data without having to create commits, PRs, etc on github. I was often letting changes to pile up before updating my website. I plan to have a printable version of the website, where instead of downloading a PDF version from it, you can just print the CV from any browser.
My code is in github.com/gmmcal/gmmcal.com.br
Thank you for your information!
Your website looks really cool!
As you pointed out, we can show our server-side skills as well as frontend skills, if we create our resume with CSM.
Some recruiters still demands PDF. Actually I don't maintain it recently, but when I start to look for jobs again, I will write some scripts to generate multi-language PDF.
Maybe I will use puppeteer now.
I liked a lot the idea of using chrome headless for PDF generation. When I get to the point of having a printable version of the website, I'll try to use that approach instead of uploading one to CMS :)
Love this article, I have a Github resume for most of the same reasons you listed.
For me though I originally made my resume in LateX so I host my
.texsource in the repo. I now have Travis CI set up to build the pdf and post it on my personal website.You can check it out here
Thank you for the comment, Evan!
I am glad to know you take similar approach.
Great feature, CI saves a lot of time of us. I feel I should set up my CI environment ASAP. LateX seems to work well to structure documents!
Thank you for your comment Matteo and Erildo.
First, I think Dev.to is a community for all developers, so it seems natural that Matteo replied to Erildo's comment. Hopefully Anyone can join other's thread because Dev.to is open community :)
As Matteo said instead of me, we can still have a public URL of our resume if we build some CI system. Although this approach takes a little time and cost depending on which service we use, it may be not a matter if we have skills or passion to create automated work flow. Even if we do not prepare automated build system, we can get the benefit of ascii data version management and one liner NPM script.
If you do not spend a lot of time in GitHub, I am sorry that I assume almost all developers use Git and GitHub heavily.
Dear Kaz, you can use atbox.io to make easy html5 resume
Thank you for sharing atbox.io, Sadra!
I created my account there. Waiting for those hiring!
you're welcome my friend ❤️
you're welcome dear Kaz 😍🙏
Thank you for your comment, Victor!
I am glad that you like the way ;)
We can update our resume without worrying about which is the newest version. And customize resume for certain companies by branching out!
I did something similar while looking for jobthe last time. It is using elasticsearch for bacdkend. I made it github.com/lukaszkuczynski/search_... and deployed here bio.lukasz.usermd.net.
Good job, your resume is very readable
Thank you for your comment, lukaszkuczynski!
Cool! I took a look at your repository, and found Dockerized backend. Great Stacks!
I love this idea but I’m not keen on having my resume in a public repository. Instead of GitHub I’ve had good experiences with repositories on my own machine that can be git remote add-ed over ssh. Even works on iOS with Working Copy!
Thank you for commenting, Aleksandr!
Great, you manage your own Git repository server (or local git). I personally do not take this way because I am afraid of losing my data unexpectedly, but it will work fine if you can manage the remote repository :)
Oh really. I checked the app and it seems to work well!
Thanks for the ideas. I currently have my resume in a JS/HTML project rendering JS data file into a [my name].dev thing. I didn't realize that I could render the word file and pdf from that directly. I'll be adding it into my CI process right after I get my ES5 transpiling to work.
Hi Corey, thank you for your comment.
Adding CI process to our resume is a good strategy to keep the resume up-to-date. Actually I want to do it if I have time to working on this.
I think statically built file + interactive web page is the best combination for resume.
It's actually a great idea but you should use JSON resume format. I would also recommend to check the fullstackresume.com service where you could build your Full Stack Resume in less than 30 seconds. Instead of writing all the content by yourself the service will generate it for you based on your unique experience using the minimalistic A/B tested resume template! Alex.
Thank you for the information! The service looks pretty cool.
Interesting idea and great workflow! Will give it a try!
About your "git hook" upgrade, I was just reading about Husky which could simplify it for you. I've never tried it but it seems to be the perfect article for sharing it :)
Thank you for your comment, Hugo!
Husky looks really nice. Thank you for sharing!
Well, apparently you've never tried something called Word online, which does everything you described better and easier.
Thank you for commenting and sharing your solution, Jack!
I have tried Google Document but never Word online. I thought Word online has the same user interface as Google Document and MS Word.
In fact, I am not good at MS Word's user interface, and I would like to manage my document as Ascii text as possible.
.xlsxfile is actually ZIP file so I cannot diff the changes and show history, so I am comfortable with HTML, Markdown or any ascii text.As you said, Word online is better and easier solution. Definitely I agree :)
I actually would like to put my technical skills into practice, to create my resume and maintain the document with any stuff I learned. That was just for fun, but I found some benefit from Git management so shared it here! Thanks.
I understand your point, I just wanted to point out about Word online in case you didn't know about it.
Yeah thank you!
This is a great idea. I have seen something like it done with many different approaches. I think I will put up my own resume on GitHub and do it using the HTML/CSS as well (maybe with webpack). But as simple as possible, so it is easy to maintain :)
Great post!
Thank you for your comment! Simplicity is very important to keep our resumes up to date :)
Using Git, you could reasonably create branches of your resume to apply for different things
Yes!
Really cool way, as it does not cause resumes conflict. We may even "merge" resumes, if the "master" resume changes or importing changes of "feature" resume.
Wow, thanks for sharing! I never thought about this possibility!
Thank you for your comment, Avalander!
I am happy to hear that! Give it a try.
Absolutely, will try it.
You can host pages on your GitHub personal page, like I've done here: kslattery.github.io
Thank you Kevin!
I saw the url and your resume is easy to read! Yeah I will create my web resume on GitHub pages soon! Thank you for sharing it.
I pretty much agree, though I prefer to use LaTeX for this purpose (and especially the moderncv class which is very easy to use and produces awesome results)
Thanks! I don't know a lot about LaTeX, but it looks great for structured documents. I like the color scheme and layout of moderncv!
LaTeX is the only word processor that plays nice with Git :)
Please check out this project for creating free resume online github.com/VJAI/about.me
I thought about doing this a while ago, but haven't gotten around to it. I'm terrible about updating my resume, so maybe this would help me to keep it current
Thanks for commenting, Shannon!
I also think it is bothering to keep my resume up-to-date. Git and CI and any developer-friendly tools are helpful for me, because I use them everyday!
This is absolutely how I plan to set up my next resume. Also any objections to me using some of your formatting choices in my own resume?
Thank you for your comment, Mike!
Welcome! Feel free to folk my repository to yours. Thanks.
If you are looking for an office for Arch, I recommend to give WPS office a try. It's available on AUR.
Thank you for sharing, Loi!
I have never tried WPS office and did not know we can install it via AUR. I usually use Libreoffice so next time will try WPS!
I second that.
This is awesome! May as well go for a resumap, too ;) blog.mapbox.com/diy-resumap-cef744...
Thank you sharing Resumap, Erin!
Resumap and Mapbox are really cool! Great work.
Great idea !
Thank you Sager!
As Kaz said in his Todo section you can have a private repo with CI pipelines that build the pdf and save it to an S3 bucket or Dropbox and always have a public link of the latest version.
Thank you for the comment Erildo!
I don't have my best projects on GitHub yet, but placing my resume works.
Why don't you share your best projects?
And private repository also works to some extent!