This looks really nice. A really good feature to have would be able to have version history of the resume so I can revert or just see how the resume has changed over time.
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GIT is literally build for that.
I will definitely look into the possibility of having this on, although I suspect my database would blow up if I were to implement this on the cloud.
This looks great! Looking forward to setting it up, thanks for sharing!
That guy has too much time on his hands. Get a job (and shave off those sideburns), hippy! /s
perfect timing, i just got laid off a couple weeks ago lol
Holy shit, it looks slick! Will for sure give it a spin!
Thank you so much! :)
Whoa, this looks awesome. I've been using https://read.cv but it's got way less features, and it also seems they've started to pivot more and more into being a kind of a social network which I'm not particularly interested in.
The only thing I'm kind of worried about is that this looks somewhat heavy for a single-user instance? Like, I don't probably need 2FA or Sentry or even SMTP for password resets. Still though, will try!
SMTP is optional, so is Sentry. If you don't include the env variable, the module isn't loaded in the app itself.
As for 2FA, it was just a few bits of code, so it adds almost zero weight to the instance. The project is very much catered to being self-hosted and meant for a single person to use. The rest are just nice features to have on a cloud instance, but they don't add any overhead to the server.
This is so cool. I'm excited to set this up on Docker, but I couldn't find the Docker Compose or installation instructions on your page. Any chance you could point me in the right direction? Thanks a bunch!
You can find the examples here: https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume/tree/main/tools/compose
I am so excited Iβm trying this tomorrow
Do you have upgrade instructions for users who were running it with this image?
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image: amruthpillai/reactive-resume:server-latest
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Will it break if I just do a docker compose pull?
Yes, unfortunately it's not a straightforward upgrade as there are a lot of things changed since V3 to V4. What I'd suggest is to extract or export your resume json from your running V3 instance and store it locally. Once you have v4 running, simply import the JSON back into the app.
Also it should be pointed out that the name of the image tag has changed. There is no client and server anymore, but just latest.
After a first glance, I can't see info about deployment in the docs: https://docs.rxresu.me/ and no docker-compsoe.yml in the repo either: https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume/
Do you have a link to the self-deployment instructions or a compose file please?
Why does it need authentication? In fact, why need a backend at all and not just fully client-side?
So it seems that right now it's not a separate project for the self-hosted version of this and the one that he offers online. So there's a lot of stuff that it's not really needed for a one-person cv display.
The delaying of making my resume becouse i was to lazy actually paid off
This looks awesome. Is there any extra setup required for saving to PDF? I just spun it up with the simple.yml
compose file and PDF save does not work.
Haven't looked into error logs at all yet because I'm busy, just wanted to check out the app quickly.
There's absolutely no extra setup necessary, if all of the services are running correctly. The error might just be related to networking. You can check out the hosted instance and take it for a spin to validate the product, and then when you have the time debug those errors with self-hosting it. I personally use the docker swarm compose template to deploy the production application and it works right out of the box.
Hi, could you include a docker-compose file to the repository?
What's the difference between a rΓ©sumΓ© and a CV and can this do both?
I have always assumed that the two words mean the same but as specific to a region. There's no reason why you can't make your resume look like the way you want it to, especially because you can create custom sections that pertain to your industry.
this is awesome! well done
I cheeked out the homepage and saw a photo on the header. Shouldn't you discourage use of an image on a resume?
doesn't that put some people at risk to racial bias?
Entirely up to the user. All of the templates adapt depending on whether there's a picture or not, so no one's experience is hindered. But it's true, it is discouraged in some regions, for good reason, but also expected in many other regions or industries.
this looks great!
Question / Potential feature request if it doesn't exist
there used to be a free resume service called rhubarb that'd let you write a bunch of bullet points and swap them in and out of your resume depending on the job you're applying to, so you'd essentially have one base resume that you could make variants of quickly and easily. their implementation let you click the "skills" section or the "work experience" section and a side bar would open up with your "bank" of all the skills or experience snippets you'd written and you'd simply click the plus or minus button to add or remove them for a specific "variant" of a resume you were working on.
this was insanely useful in tech jobs where you'd have experience with like 20 different pieces of tech but a specific job you'd apply to would only use 10 and you could only fit like 15ish on your resume so you'd swap them around depending on the specific job you're applying to. do you guys have any feature like this where you support quickly making variations of a base resume to more custom tailor it to a singular position?
It'd also let you track the jobs you've applied to by uploading the Job description (just simple copy and pasting of the page into a rich text editor, no link scraping or formatting or anything) and it'd give you basically an "match" score on how good the specific variant of your resume aligns with the skill sets posted for that particular position's job description. This part was probably just a simple python off-the-shelf machine learning script that does NTM or LDA or something, it wasn't amazing, and with chatgpt integration already in your app, you could probably do something a lot better for a lot lower effort.
if these features don't exist in your app, adding them i think would make your app the resume app, because in the current job market, it's becoming more and more of the norm to shoot out dozens of resumes to land a single bite, and more and more, those resumes need to be custom tailored to the position especially in the age of chatgpt mass produced resumes. Even in tech, if you aren't custom tailoring your resume for each application your prospects of getting a call back are greatly diminished.
So really this creates two problems your app could solve, easily customizing a "base" resume and keeping track of which job postings you've sent which resume to, both of these could be super overengineered, or just simple solutions, and both of these would make your app amazing if it doesn't have either!
The features you're asking for already exist in the app. You should be able to create a resume with all section items, and duplicate the resume for a specific job. Now, you have the option to hide certain items from each section or hide a section altogether.
There's also another interesting feature specific for this use case. You can create a base resume and then lock it, ensuring no further changes are made to it by mistake. Another feature is that you can add personal notes to each resume, for example a link to the job description you applied to.
Reactive Resume has helped people land jobs at these great companies
Has it now
Hi u/AmruthPillai, I've been using Rxresume for a few years now and have got to say that I love it. However, I have hit a small snag; I use the hosted version (rxresu.me) and now that it's updated to v4, the resume it's imported has lost its formatting and is missing a lot of info. Is there a way to access the v3 version again so I can export all my resumes and selfhost v3?
Really slick and personally helpful to sooo many people, what an insanely awesome project!
curios to see how well a PDF resume from this fares thru the various ATS's that are out there
This is great! Any plans to update the unraid template? Pretty please :)
We need a good working Unraid template for this ππ»π§
Perfect timing. I quit just today :D
Just installed with docker with this and it works great. https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume/blob/main/tools/compose/simple.yml
After inserting a key created on https://platform.openai.com/api-keys , I tried the GPT functionality, but I always receive an error in a toast notification
404 This is a chat model and not supported in the v1/completions endpoint. Did you mean to use v1/chat/completions?
Also, does it utilize GPT-3.5 or GPT-4
I believe they have made some changes to the OpenAI API since I last did the integration, will look into this tomorrow. The model is set to use gpt-3.5-turbo, but I would soon implement a dropdown to allow the user to select a model from a list.
I have used this in the past and was very good. Just creating a new CV now and it totally locked up on me but thats probably down to firefox.
Whilst working my way through the skills section, its quite annoying that you cant drag the skills into order/there own place. I've had to delete and add again on quite a few occasions.
Skills again, would be nice to have an option of just entering text or skills separated by the commas.
After 5 years I got laid off and had to rebuild mine, using a template from a "professional" that I hired like 7-9 years ago. I'll definitely use this to update mine!
Is the PDF export fixed? I used some early versions where that feature didnβt work.
Is there new containers? I really want to run this but it historically has been a struggle their main instance seems solid but I kind of want to host it myself
Looks great but needs a dark theme π
You can switch themes in the settings page, under "Profile".
Looking into the github issues there are some problems with pagination where if you have a resume over a certain size you are SOL with formatting issues where you are forced to do insanely labour intensive makework to reformat the resume due to these limitations.
see:
https://github.com/AmruthPillai/Reactive-Resume/issues/899
Is the github/google part at the end necessary or can it get commented out for testing? (Tried to spin up simple.yml with them commented out and had no luck.)
Really great tool, thanks! I accidentally started of with a wrong old docker container, that wasn't v4. It did have some issues, that are fixed in v4 now, so that's great!
I really love the old 'Onyx' layout though. The ovals that contain 'skills' and 'hobbies' make it look so clean. I can't find the same layout in the new v4.
Looks really great, thanks!
I can't find a way to reorder items within Work Experience, Educations, etc. So if I get some new certification, it seems I have to fill in everything again since I can only add new ones at the bottom and I want to put the latest one on top. Or am I doing something wrong?
Also, it would be great if you could add a date to the certifications. That way you can show how long you've been certified for the specific skill.