Question for HR's and hiring managers (target audience for resumes) – what actually makes a resume worth reading? Are there any publicly available resumes that you can reference as a great example? I suspect that design has little to do with it.
(I'm re-building my own resume/portfolio/website, so I'm genuienly interested :-) )
Not a recruiter or HR but do read quite some CVs nonetheless. My take for software engineering:
* keep it simple. I want to scan your CV in a minute or two to see if it is worth reading. Skip the fancy fonts, images, charts or flowers etc.
* I typically go work experience > recommendations/achievements if any > summary/profile > name, stop. If I'm not having my next meeting in 5 minutes I may go education, remainder I often not read. (sorry)
* I find skills and education worthless often and skip when I'm in a hurry. People inflate skills and using a skill in a 5 person company is very different from an enterprise. Education these days doesn't say much in Europe. No top colleges like MIT.
Often the only thing that really matters to me is work experience. It allows me to judge if you're used to our kind and size of problems. In a talk I'll learn how fast you can learn.
That having said. I can imagine for a design related job you want people to express themselves on their CV.
Put some effort in your CV (no misaligned stuff, profile pictures upside down, self-evalulation of skills with all the stars filled), but most importantly, don't lie.
Everything else is secondary, IMHO.
Oh yes, I can't stand those European CV templates, but that's just personal opinion. I'd rather read one CV formatted with one of those ugly templates than one with one of the issues mentioned above.
Looks good. Smart to include ability to schedule a la Calendly. Don’t love the pricing. $40 “forever” isn’t as enticing as it sounds as you may be gone in a month.
Also, the paid version is for “Professionals”… who’s the free version for? I’d reconsider that language.
Thank you for your feedback! :) Pricing is something we are still playing around with, I'll keep your point in mind. Also, what pricing do you think is justifiable?
> Also, the paid version is for “Professionals”… who’s the free version for? I’d reconsider that language.
That's a good point, though our intent was to convey that PRO features are best suited to Basic features for Professionals.
The ability to build good looking resumes is nice. Here is an idea — Make is completely free, and try to add a network of endorsements. That way you build a network (similar to linkedin). A low market disruptive way to take on LinkedIn.
Instead of a one-off fee of 22, to have something like 2,99 per month, and then another option with more features for 9,99. That would attract me more, since you are competing with Linkedin and some other online resume tools.
