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Intelligent Resume Tools?

Posted by Cliff on from the more-than-just-a-word-processor dept.

imrdkl asks: "It's time for me (and presumably a few others) to start thinking about a career change. With 10 years of experience, I'd like to be able to customize my resume a bit, to highlight the experience/education which is pertinent to a given job, instead of trying to say too much and boring the reader. Are there any tools out there (non-web-based preferred) which help a person to create a custom resume based (perhaps) on a small database which contains relevant work-experience highlights?"

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  1. Tools? by Calle+Ballz · · Score: 3, Informative

    I would certainly hope you don't need to rely on a tool to write your resume for you. If you have the experience that you claim, you should have no problem selling yourself on an 8.5 x 11 piece of white paper. Writing a resume isn't that hard... just think of what you know and write it down, then organize it into a well grouped format and print it out.

    If you need ideas, this site will give you plenty of ideas and suggestions on how to build a great resume yourself.

  2. Re:Actually, there is a use for this... by oni · · Score: 3, Informative

    The problem I'm finding now is, I've been asked for PDF, PostScript, HTML, Plaintext, RichText, and MS Word versions of my resume. So I've got 6 versions to keep up to date.

    It's definitely a pain in the ass. I keep the master copy of my resume in HTML, print it to postscript and convert to PDF with ps2pdf. That part is easy. The problem is keeping a word version up to date. If I open the HTML in Word it looks terrible - and somehow expands to over three pages!