
Show HN: What is your opinion on this online resume? – More info in comments - smartsystems
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onion2k
When I'm looking for a dev I want to be able to _quickly_ see if they have a
specific set of skills. I literally can't read 50% of the skills on your
resume without some effort. That stop me moving forwards.

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smartsystems
Obviously I have an actual resume. What did you think about the thing in
general other than not being able to make out some of the words in the word
cloud?

...also, based on your feedback I updated that image to make the smaller text
bigger. I had noticed the same thing earlier but I didn't imagine it would
bother my intended audience. Not saying that's you but at least I'm fixing the
things people say they don't like.

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bastijn
I stopped reading after the second animation. It is too annoying as a resume
for recruitment.

As indication of skill it isn't much better either for me. I would expect any
software dev to gobble this together given the number of available html
presentation tools. If you want to show what you can do I'd rather see a bunch
of github projects really. With readme properly documenting what it does and
if possible a live example running somewhere.

This little thing could be in there if you really like. I would expect the
Readme to state why you made it and what problem it solved or what you learned
from it.

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smartsystems
There are four slides. It takes 10 seconds to look through the entire thing.
If you can't make it past the second slide before writing a three paragraph
critique you are 100% not in my target audience. Not that there is no validity
in your opinion somewhere but I'm not sure if you understand the point of the
thing.

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bastijn
I looked at your project with my work hat on, I replied to this thread with a
three paragraph reply with my HN community hat on.

I clicked through once more for you to find your github in slide 4. My comment
stays the same, there is nothing in there that helps me select you over people
that present their content in an easier to consume format.

On the content. In some countries pictures must be able to blacked out by law
(I don't agree, yet it is truth). Your experience bullets do not say what you
actually did. Would add where your worked and some 1-2 lines description per
bullet on what you made/did there. If you were freelancing add your clients.
It helps us understand what size of companies/codebases you worked. What
complexity etc. Your word cloud is indeed hard to decipher. Slide 4 I saw
github, which is good.

The title says online resume. I assume the audience is recruitment. Recruiters
take seconds to scan if they want to spend minutes. In addition most
recruiters will not forward this to people like me to see if they like to
invite. If that means we are not your audience your resume works. Be aware you
are limiting your own options as you now no longer have the choice to say no
yourself (we decided that for you).

I stay with my earlier comment. Best to reverse the whole thing. Send your
"actual" resume as you called it and add your github repo there. We will find
this here.

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smartsystems
I used impress.js for the slides.

It's intentionally lightweight. I don't have a lot of public projects that I
can link to. Plus it seems like the kind of thing where you shouldn't try too
hard. So I left it at kind of the level we're pretty much anybody can do it.

The only types of jobs I'm looking for are part-time jobs and remote jobs. So
that's my audience.

By the way if you looked at HANK and want to talk about that send me a
message!

Anyways thank you for the critique. It'll be helpful to me.

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sdan
In today’s world, literally using bare html is probably better. Just list what
you know and show some projects related to those. I like your animations, but
I find it a bit weird... although I respect that you can still do that if you
please

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busymom0
I like the idea. I would change the colors a bit though to make the text pop a
bit more.

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gr97
looks pretty rough on firefox but i like the idea

