Nice. Although I'm not too sure what the social implications of this would be. As it is already I think employers do too much parsing of resumes rather than looking at them with human eyes. PDF resumes are awesome in that you get a blank sheet of paper to do whatever you want with to impress the employer.
There's a lot of reading between the lines that can be done in an resume. Even the fonts say something about the person. If the person is claiming to be a UI designer and their resume has poorly chosen fonts and bad kerning, I'd toss it. If they claim to be a physics researcher and the resume is written in Word, I'd toss it too. With a JSON resume you don't get any of this information.
Also, it's not entirely clear how extensible this "standard" is. Resumes take multiple forms. A computer scientist might want to list a few open source projects. A photographer might want to embed a sample or two of their work.
The organization of a resume is almost as useful an introduction to a candidate as the terms on it. It's also useful to understand how much time was put into the resume.
> If they claim to be a physics researcher and the resume is written in Word, I'd toss it too.
But the relationship with future performance and these subjective "reading between the lines" opinions is unclear. You need standardization to reduce bias in hiring decisions and make them as objective as possible.
Yeah, I was going to say that this project is awesome, and I like the web themes, but the PDF export needs a lot of work. I think that will be the hardest aspect to achieve. Maybe some LaTeX resume themes can be borrowed from. There are some very nice ones in LaTeX.
Maybe. As someone who likes to be creative I'd still never use someone else's template though. Even the font I use on my resume I did some editing on because I didn't like the way a couple of the glyphs looked.
I think that gets to the heart of why a standard metadata-to-pretty-resume solution has never really taken off. The people who really care about it don't even bother trying to make a one-size-fits-all solution, since it's such a customized and personal undertaking. Glad to hear I'm not the only person who's spent countless hours tweaking my resume to the nth degree.
There's a lot of reading between the lines that can be done in an resume. Even the fonts say something about the person. If the person is claiming to be a UI designer and their resume has poorly chosen fonts and bad kerning, I'd toss it. If they claim to be a physics researcher and the resume is written in Word, I'd toss it too. With a JSON resume you don't get any of this information.
Also, it's not entirely clear how extensible this "standard" is. Resumes take multiple forms. A computer scientist might want to list a few open source projects. A photographer might want to embed a sample or two of their work.