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by brc 5348 days ago
I think any move towards online resumes is great. It makes no sense that all recuitment is online yet all documents are off-line.

I don't keep a resume anymore, but on occasion someone asks me for one. I normally tell them I don't have one and point to my site, linkedin page, etc.

A couple of times recently I've been told that 'online resumes are not accepted'. Presumably because they can be changed after the fact. Ie - insert fake job, submit resume, remove fake job. Or something.

Of course, I just use the linkedin export to PDF option and send it to the lazy person shakes fist

But you might want to either (a) have a pdf export for people and/or (b) have a 'guarantee locked version' or something so that people know the version they are looking at hasn't changed since they first saw it.

Yes, I know, it's weird to want to refuse updates to a resume, but apparently people want that. It's more about ass-covering by documentation, but I guess that's what many people are about.

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What about versioning? I don't want all my versions exposed, but an ability to link to a specific version would be nice. Maybe a random url for each version. Your site could then guarantee that old versions can not be changed. Include the date of the version on the page, together with a link to the most recent version.
Different random url I suppose...
Or instead of locking it, you could just have a "Last modified" time stamp or a log indicating when modifications were made.
Well. There might be legitimate things that need to be corrected. Spelling / Grammar for instance. Why not have the last modified and a history. Save off the diffs so you can recreate the older versions for potential employers.

Another option is that a new revision generates a new random string for the URL and that revision is always available there.

Locking is pretty interesting! Almost like having Resume.io notarize that copy of it.

Planning on adding .pdf and .txt export support soon for sure.

Thanks!