| Steve I think the critique is a little pessimistic. Exporting to Word would be simple change if merited, so that is really more of a feature/strategy suggestion rather than evidence the business is fundamentally not viable. Regarding competing with LinkedIn, it hard to judge without knowing the full vision. OP said this was step 1 towards a platform. Besides LinkedIn does lots of things suboptimally, and other people have built businesses that work along side their ecosystem. Finally other comments are correct when they say recruiters only want Word to strip your info. Couple fyis on this point: 1) Stripping contact info is not unethical. If a recruiter worked hard to find you and/or build a relationship they should not have to worry about companies using their work to cut them out of a deal. 2) Adding in skills without your knowledge is way unethical. Ask up front if they do this. Some also scrape your resume (and tons more) and submit without you knowing, then if a company is interested they call you and say XYZ company is interested in you. Most people don't complain about this part because its a free job offer, however personally I don't like and always ask what their source was. 3) Having only PDF and not Word is very unlikely to hurt you. If recruiters are interested they will just OCR into Word in about 30 seconds. |