Don't really agree with you here. I just browse the resume given as an example, and first thing that comes to mind is "TL;DR". Really hard to process information when resume is told as a story.
HR (or people in charge of recruiting) will take only few seconds to read your resume. And if they have to work to understand it, they'll throw it away.
So, even if I like story telling, I'm still not convinced by this project.
@lucascerdan For your comment as 'HR will take only few seconds...", is it not because they are too used to see and scan traditional resumes? Your comment on the format where you find information hard to process, is valid, but that is more of a layout issue. Resumes as stories will evolve in presentation with time!
@vingar@lucascerdan It's possible that the unique look could make you stand out in a good way OR a bad way. It seems like these would work better for smaller companies (fewer candidates, less likely to have a bored HR person filtering) and for contractors (more focus on projects/deliverables).
I used to work at seelio.com, which was trying to revolutionize the resume via a more portfolio-style system. i like the premise here - but i hear where lucas is coming from - i wonder how much employers want to read stories about people when they can see easy and quick bullet points
I used a few such 'online profile' services which were not necessarily resumes-building, but profile-building. For example, Vizify (now taken over by yahoo I guess), enthuse.me.
However, both these worked better for 'online-socially active' professionals whereas Sumry does not give any special weight to these social stats. So, this seems to be a welcome change as long as users have at least minimum control and flexibility over the resume presentation!
I think it's likely most people trying out Sumry will have LinkedIn accounts - might be able to show something compelling faster by using some of what they've entered there as a starting point.
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