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CakeResume v2 - Online Resume Builder — Making your resume a piece of cake
Drag and drop resume snippets to build an impressive online resume in minutes.
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Small tip btw.
I think you should have some ready made templates (also) to start from rather than a blank slate - once I can see how beautiful it can appear visually, I'm much more into it. :)
@rahulr047 actually, we have some example, but they were made by Taiwan users and are in Chinese - https://www.cakeresume.com/resumes
You can submit your resume to us, and we'll feature and share it!
@trantorliu Cool! Will try to do it this week, little busy today haha.
One fundamental problem with the templates you have is even though they are visually appealing, they aren't really super professional. They are probably best for UX/UI/Visual designers.
Making resumes sucks. I would say have standard templates for Developers, Product Managers, Digital Marketers, Designers. You can basically rip these off from your competitors. The drawback with the other tools I have used is customizability, which you guys have. (Enhancv doesn't let me bold font like wtf)
Hello Product Hunters!
I am the founder of CakeResume. I built the site to solve my own problem - I built some websites and apps before, and wanted to create a page to showcase my projects. But I couldn't find a tool that can help me build this page easily without content restrictions. So I built the website by myself.
CakeResume is more than a resume, it's a hybrid of a traditional resume and a personal website. It helps you introduce yourself in the way you prefer. By the drag-and-drop editor, I make sure everyone can create an unique and vivid self introduction.
Hope you like it. Thank you!
Best,
Trantor
@nadeburg It's basically free. You can pay $9.99 to buy premium resume snippets, or invite 2 friends to join to get them for free.
Besides that, you can create CakeResume Career Pages (beta) for free right now - https://www.cakeresume.com/caree...
@trantorliu Why oh why not a login with LinkedIn which already fills out most of the fields?
@trantorliu The problem I have is many relatives who ask me to polish up their resumes, either for themselves or their son/daughter. Personally I haven't updated my resume in years but this is definitely going to make it easier for me to say no to the relatives :) Awesome!
I organized a hackathon recently where we required resumes, so we included links to resume generators like EnhanceCV. I got a lot of messages from recruiters who really, really disliked these resumes. Here's what we learned
1) Do not use an image. Companies are actively trying to avoid being biased in the interview process and will toss out any resumes that readily indicate race or gender
2) In general, don't give space to graphical representations (e.g.: the timeline in the tutorial video). They're generally understood to be wasted space and using them may signal to the recruiter that you didn't have enough content to fill that space
3) Resume generators sometimes encourage you to include skills you're not proficient in (e.g.: 2/5 star proficiency in java) for the sake of visual completeness. Do not include these.
@cwrichardkim Thank you for the advices! I know all these principles. But I'd like to change the nature of resume. Let machine filter keywords or qualifications, so you can share about something you really care on your resume. Resumes nowadays are less human, I'd like create a tool that inspire people to share their stories.
@trantorliu While I agree with that sentiment (resumes and the job application process are VERY broken), it's hard to justify doing something that is actively discouraged by recruiters. If recruiters throw out all resumes with photos, then it doesn't matter how good the generated resume is, it'll be thrown out
Let me clarify by saying I still think this is a valuable product and I don't want this to come across as a criticism of your work! I just wanted to include some words of caution from my experience.
@trantorliu The chance to tell your story is what the interview process is for. As @cwrichardkim mentioned, most companies do not want to be biased when looking for interviewees and putting a face to the resume doesn't help with that.
With that said, your app is great, there are just certain things that I would not want to include, like my photo.
@neurohacked Thank you. I'll keep in mind. However, some countries don't have this constraint. Btw, I wonder why LinkedIn accepts photos?
@trantorliu linked in is primarily a network and secondarily an application platform that enables recruiters to do *further* research. Also, when you apply with linkedin, most website actually convert everything to plaintext for a variety of reasons (save space, consistent formatting, remove images). It's actually rather frustrating because after importing from LinkedIn you have to format the pain text that linkedin returned. Again, not criticizing the product, just words of caution
Look very nice, and so not expensive as Enhancy shown on my righ tab here! For a flat 9$ you can download more templates who look great and as good as a fancy blog site.
On the downside, you can't change fonts so it's not all personal.
My dream would be to populate directly the content with my LinkedIn page, as I already signed in with it.
Let's wait and see :)
@emmanuel_b_lepage You cant change fonts! Select text and you'll see a formatting toolbar. We will support more font in the future.
@emmanuel_b_lepage We launched the LinkedIn import feature! Please take a look :) https://medium.com/@esambino/tur...
@kevinohlsson Now you can add CakeResume buttons/badges to your personal website :)
I was honestly hoping this was a piece of cake that had my resume printed on. I got really excited there for a second.
Great!
One Suggestion: Don't ask to Signup first. Let users try your product first and ask them to signup when they want to SAVE or PUBLISH.
~Surjith
@surjithctly I did receive the same feedback from other on Hacker News - https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
Will think about thins. Thank you!
I invented a solution to get rid of Resumes 4 years ago - the matchmaking is based on soft/hard skills and the interface is visual - unfortunately nobody is ready to get rid of this 1980's@fashion. Regarding your app, it looks very good - I like it. Cheers.
I have a love / hate relationship with this product right now. I spent 2 hours today helping my girlfriend design her resume in Photoshop. 1 hour later, I get on PH and see this.
Haha this is great, good job guys.
@giologist Thank you for the kind words haha! Hope CakeResume will help you!
This is amazing. Now anyone can create good resumes with just drag and drop. It's pretty easy. However @trantorliu one thing I noticed and would like to share. The social icons that are present by default, cannot be directly deleted. Let's say I want to keep only Twitter and Facebook icons and remove the rest, I couldn't find the option. I edited the HTML to remove the not needed icons, but if we have an option in visual editor itself, it can be very handy. Great website guys!
@rajbtw Actualy you can use backspace to delete icons :) Thank you for the comment. I did notice that some users don't know how to delete icons.
@trantorliu great, backspace works too. Thank you for this amazing product, I have invited few of my friends and they loved it :)
IMHO a lot of its potential is lost because of the lack of interactivity. A lot to explore in that direction.
Otherwise it looks solid.
Congrats on the launch guys! I remember spending ages trying to plan out my CV and a tool like this would've been a saviour! I've sent it out to my friends so hopefully they can get a lot of use out of it!
This is awesome! I have 2 questions:
1.) Can the resumes be exported as a word document?
2.) Are the exported resumes optimized for major Application Tracking Systems (ATS)? I know PDF files are typically harder for ATSs to understand vs. word documents. I had that problem in the past. Although my resume looked really good and was designed using Adobe Illustrator... when exported as a PDF and tested in an ATS... it failed miserably. How does this stack up in a similar situation?
@mkirlew I see. But we don't have export to word function right now. And might not support this in the near future. Thank you for the feedback though.
Very pretty.
I would put this on my website, but not submit to a job.
Recruiters generally prefer to-the-point resumes. Uniqueness is actually a pain in the butt unless it drastically improves readability.
I tried several resume builders online. But this one is the best. Its customisable and simple at the same time.
Pros:Fast, Simple and Elegant.
Cons:None I can think of right now
This looks great, would be awesome if there was a way to export to HTML to make into an online portfolio of sorts
@bob6664569 I see. Thank you, let me think how to fix it. However, right now you can delete the icons if you don't need them :)
@trantorliu Thanks for the reply. Another must-have feature to me, would be to connect with LinkedIn, and have my resume pre-filled (combined with the suggestion of @rahulr047, that would be perfect ! :)
Wow! Have watched CakeResume grow from the early stages but this is turning into a really powerful tool! Next time someone asks for CV help, I know where to send them.
This is great.
Slightly disappointed that this doesn't turn my CV into an actual cake though...
@basgras Sorry about that XD We will consider introducing this service on fool's day.
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