[alex_anglin]

While I think that the overall idea isn't necessarily a bad one, two things jump out at me with the templates that are provided:

-Do people really put their photos on their resumes??

-Given that resumes are often printed and reviewed in black and white, I think that would undo a lot of the effort that went in to the designs of the templates.

In spite of that I think the spirit of having a resume that doesn't come from a Word-provided template is worthwhile for job seekers.

[mikeyouse]

I'm not in HR, but have previously heard that it's a tremendously bad idea to put a picture on a resume. The advice was all predicated on HR departments being extremely risk-adverse when it comes to discrimination claims.

A picture of someone pretty much immediately reveals age, sex, race, and could easily reveal religion (think a muslim or sikh) and disability status. Which pretty much covers the list of things you're not allowed to discriminate against.

[ResRep]

If you look better, you can see that picture are not mandatory.

[yeukhon]

People actually print resumes on paper these days in the tech sector? Can recruiter confirm this? I think most tech companies probably just email resumes around.

[ksk]

Many of my interviews started with the interviewer reading my printed resume. So while this might be useful, I'd be worried about the link not working or the person using a blackberry or IE or some other previously unknown/untested way of viewing the resume. (Yes, I know you can also print using this service, but then there's no difference between emailing pdfs/docs yourself.. )

Maybe its worth it for some. I don't think its worth $10/month or even a one-time $10 cost.

Side rant: Its seems that everyone is trying to build a subscription based business these days. What happened to just selling a product for a fixed price and be done with it.. why do people want to hook the customer onto some metaphorical treadmill. I hate that MS has started doing that with Office, adobe with Photoshop etc..

[bastih]

I can confirm this. On several occasions during interviews, interviewers had a printed copy of my resume at hand, as a basis for discussions of what you have already done.

[gomox]

I guess it really depends on the companies, but from my experience with an HR system targeting larger hiring organizations (think several hundreds to thousands of hires per year), "better batch printout" functionality is a common feature request.

When I am doing interviews I like having a paper copy of the resume to that I can get inspiration for the "discussion" part of the meeting.

[ResRep]

All these resumes can be printed like a normal resumes on the paper with the same data. There is online version for online presence and print version for personal presence on the meeting with the employer.

[alex_anglin]

Maybe not, but as a job seeker would you want to take that risk? Not everyone involved in the hiring process is guaranteed to be paper-adverse.

[stygiansonic]

In North America I would say that is discouraged from including a photo on your resume, so I would not go with that option here.

I've heard (and read [1]) that in certain European and Asian countries it's customary to include a photo with a resume, so perhaps that's why the option was provided.

1. http://www.expatarrivals.com/article/how-resumes-differ-from...

[aspidistra]

> Do people really put their photos on their resumes??

Pretty standard practice in Germany.