[ismarc]

I built a small personal tool to do the same thing when I was asked for my resume recently and realized just how out of date my resume was. It was a much simpler, much less polished one, but I think there's a definite need for the service and that there are a good number of monetization opportunities around it (recruiters and companies are more than willing to part with money to hire folks).

That said, there are some issues I ran into. If you delete all the text in the objective, I could no longer save the resume and adding text back into the objective and then selecting "done editing" didn't actually retain the text, so I lost any potential changes I had. Requiring at least one education entry seems a bit limiting, especially considering the market for job seekers includes much more than just those with a college degree. Also, the length/format of the customizable URL meant that I could barely fit my name with no spaces. What I would have liked to see was hirednext.com/<name_I_chose>/<company name the resume is for>.

I think that being able to reorder the entries would be a good next feature to add. Where I went to school is a minor footnote compared to a large number of the achievements from my professional experience and having it first is frequently distracting from the rest of the resume. Along those same lines, being able to rename the "Portfolio" section would be nice...there's several open source projects worth listing, but doesn't constitute an actual portfolio.

All that said, this is a good start and I think if you can keep it free to job seekers, you've got a good start on your hands.

[jerryblack]

we have addressed all your concerns and they have been fixed/updated.

see the change log at http://hirednext.wordpress.com