Comments on: helpful resume site launches

By: The Value of a Professional Resume :: Career-Resumes® :: Former resume expert for Monster.com

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:18:03 +0000

[...] was reading Cheezhead, which is a blog that talks about current events in the career space (emphasis on job boards, [...]

By: JobSpice: volstrekt zinloos, maar met funding… | Personal branding | Recruitment Matters - Alles over online recruitment

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:21:23 +0000

[...] is start-up die een online CV biedt. Dat is echt alles. Maar volgens Cheezhead heeft deze wandelende dode al funding ontvangen van Y Combinator, toch niet de minste [...]

By: Marc Drees

Marc Drees — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:18:32 +0000

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?

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:16:36 +0000

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.