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ResumeBucket.com Launches

I hope everyone had a great holiday this year.  For the past few months I've been working on an online resume site ResumeBucket.com and I need your help taking it for a test drive.  Our goal with this site is to create a site where you can upload your current resume in Word form, build a new resume using our online resume creation tool, or even just type in what you want using using our online text editor. 

The site gives you a unique URL you can give out to friends and prospective employers so they can instantly access an up to date copy of your resume.  There are options for them to also download a copy of your resume in Word or PDF format.  For an example of how your resume can look see our CEO's resume page.

Unlike the other resume services out there, employers are able to search the database without paying any huge fees which will drive more qualified employment leads to your INBOX.

Please take a few minutes to kick the tires.  You can leave feedback here in the comments or E-mail me at frank@revsys.com. Thanks!

Comments

You should work on the PDF-versions. In their current state, they are useless.

Consider using LaTeX perhaps?

  Posted by Alex on Dec 29, 2008 at 4:29 AM

Hi Alex, thanks for the feedback. Can you tell me specifically what problem you are seeing with the PDF downloads? I just downloaded a couple and don't notice any problems. Thanks!

  Posted by Frank Wiles on Dec 29, 2008 at 4:32 AM

Frank,

Regarding Alex's comment, I looked at three different resumes in PDF format and they don't work for me either. I am running Adobe Reader 9.0 in Windows XP SP3.

When I open the downloaded files, the characters were so small as to be unreadable. The zoom setting for the page was 17.1%. I can increase the zoom and read the text but then I get a horizontal scroll bar and have to scroll from side to side to read everything. At the bottom of the Reader window it reports that the page size is 45.51x45.51 inches. I don't know if these are the same things Alex is seeing, but I must agree that, for me, I couldn't use the PDF versions.

Hope this helps.

  Posted by Daniel Bradshaw on Dec 30, 2008 at 8:41 AM