JobSpice is a new start-up meant to help users build Web-friendly resumes that look good and are easy to customize.
The site was founded by Andrew McCollum, a Facebook co-founder who served as the social network’s original designer, and Dane Hurtubise. JobSpice has already been funded by Y Combinator.
Job seekers are able to use the site for free. JobSpice makes resumes visually appealing by taking advantage of the structured formatting of resumes and optimizing it for the Web. The site uses CSS to style the resumes it generates, meaning you can rework the appearance of your resume with little effort.
Users also can customize resumes for each application. After checking off what sections you would like to include in your resume for that specific position, the site generates a unique URL for that version of your resume, which also can be exported to PDF.
JobSpice currently only has about 10 designs available, but is allowing users and graphic designers to submit their own designs to the site’s library, which will then be shared with anyone else who accesses the site. All of the designs are currently free, but the company said it could look into offering premium designs in the future.
The site plans to make money by offering premium features, such as custom domains, as well as using its services to streamline the hiring process.
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August 11th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
I don’t see it. What’s particularly helpful about this site versus what’s already widely available to any candidate (from any one of a hundred word processing programs to start)?
Interesting (to me) would be a site that outputs the resume into an HR-XML compliant format or had brokered relationships with the usual suspect ATS vendors or even social networking providers.
While professional resume writing may be the service-du-jour to kick right now, I have to say as a recruiter for a long time it’s obvious who’s invested in the service and who was disinterested in investing further in their career. Good writers are hard to find. Good writers that know how to interview for facts–facts we’re often unaware or too bashful to provide ourselves–are even rarer and worth every dollar invested in my opinion. Tying into this “ecosystem” would be intersting for JS.
As for it being YC/VC funded, I sure hope this was part of a portfolio theory move–because that money is already circling the drain and I don’t see a strong path to saving it from going down the tube.
August 12th, 2009 at 11:18 am
This is not a helpful resume site, this is complete nonsense. The fact that it received funding is incredibly stupid and can only be attributed by the fact that a Facebook co-founder participates. Probably funding is light, since the site looks like to have been built in a day or two.
Did Y Combinator never heard of LinkedIn or any existing personal branding site?