Resume Builder

Gotta find a job! Alright, let's make a new resume with this awesome template I found on Google, the problem is, this template might not be as awesome next month, or you might need to constantly add your new experience to the document. Gosh. Wouldn't be better to focus on adding new experiences in a raw format and let a automation process handle the layout? I agreed, and that's why Resume Builder is here.

You take care of the data and we take care of the template.

"Imagine you're an employer, and you have two resumes in front of you. One is filled wall-to-wall with text and uses four different fonts. It's also peppered with dozens of bolded, italicized, and underlined words and phrases. The second resume also offers a lot of information, but you can quickly scan the document because it makes good use of white space, features clear and consistent section headings, and uses bullets to make important items stand out. Which resume would you look at first?"

• http://monster.com

TESTED ONLY ON GOOGLE CHROME

About

Resume Builder is a free open-source project that allows anyone to easily maintain and build any kind of resume using Google Spreadsheets. This was develop as a personal project to help a friend who was struggling spending up to an hour to make a custom resumes. TRY IT NOW.

For version 1 check here and for version 2 check here.

Features

• Multiple Resume templates (soon)
• Parse data from Google Spreadsheet URL, .xls file or .json file.
• Support Json format from jsonresume.org.
• Convert Google Spreadsheet data into jsonresume.org format.
• Theme created with material-ui-theme-editor, so it's easy for you to customize.

Online viewer

Create a Github repo like this one with the name resume.json and a file called resume.json in a branch called main and following the JSON schema from jsonresume.org.

Then you can access your resume via https://resume-builder.js.org/view/TEMPLATE/GITHUB_USER, for example this URL: https://resume-builder.js.org/view/default/blopa.

Usage

First of all you need to create a Google Spreadsheet following the same rules as this one (you can make a copy if you like) and populate with your resume information.

• name: Your full name
• label: Your resume Job Title
• picture: A URL for your picture
• summary: Summary of yourself
• website/url: Your website URL
• email: Your email
• phone: Your phone number
• address: Your address
• postalCode: Your postal code
• city: City where you're located
• region: Region where you're located
• countryCode: Country code where you're located
• network: Social media name
• username: Social media name

Libraries

• I'm using gatsby.js, react.js, js-xlsx and Material UI.
• Honorable mentions: babel, webpack, IntelliJ IDEA.
• Gatsby template from gatsby-material-ui-blog-starter

So a big thanks to all the developers that worked really hard on these libs and make our day easier :D.

Deployment

Run npm run build then copy the public/ folder into your website root directory. Done.

Example

The following JSON is a result of this Google Spreadsheet. For a better view of the JSON click here.

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "John Doe",
    "label": "Programmer",
    "picture": "",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "(912) 555-4321",
    "website": "http://johndoe.com",
    "summary": "A summary of John Doe...",
    "location": {
      "address": "2712 Broadway St",
      "postalCode": "CA 94115",
      "city": "San Francisco",
      "countryCode": "US",
      "region": "California"
    },
    "profiles": [{
      "network": "Twitter",
      "username": "john",
      "url": "http://twitter.com/john"
    }]
  },
  "work": [{
    "company": "Company",
    "position": "President",
    "website": "http://company.com",
    "startDate": "2013-01-01",
    "endDate": "2014-01-01",
    "summary": "Description...",
    "highlights": [
      "Started the company"
    ]
  }],
  "volunteer": [{
    "organization": "Organization",
    "position": "Volunteer",
    "website": "http://organization.com/",
    "startDate": "2012-01-01",
    "endDate": "2013-01-01",
    "summary": "Description...",
    "highlights": [
      "Awarded 'Volunteer of the Month'"
    ]
  }],
  "education": [{
    "institution": "University",
    "area": "Software Development",
    "studyType": "Bachelor",
    "startDate": "2011-01-01",
    "endDate": "2013-01-01",
    "gpa": "4.0",
    "courses": [
      "DB1101 - Basic SQL"
    ]
  }],
  "awards": [{
    "title": "Award",
    "date": "2014-11-01",
    "awarder": "Company",
    "summary": "There is no spoon."
  }],
  "publications": [{
    "name": "Publication",
    "publisher": "Company",
    "releaseDate": "2014-10-01",
    "website": "http://publication.com",
    "summary": "Description..."
  }],
  "skills": [{
    "name": "Web Development",
    "level": "Master",
    "keywords": [
      "HTML",
      "CSS",
      "Javascript"
    ]
  }],
  "languages": [{
    "language": "English",
    "fluency": "Native speaker"
  }],
  "interests": [{
    "name": "Wildlife",
    "keywords": [
      "Ferrets",
      "Unicorns"
    ]
  }],
  "references": [{
    "name": "Jane Doe",
    "reference": "Reference..."
  }]
}

Screenshot

Google Spreadsheet example

Built Resume

Printing Resume

Release Notes

• v3.0.5:
  • Add Spanish translation (thanks simonhoyos)
• v3.0.4:
  • Fix React suspense on the resume viewer page.
• v3.0.3:
  • Add online resume viewer. Example: https://resume-builder.js.org/view/default/blopa.
• v3.0.2:
  • Fix template selector
  • Fix interests toggler
• v3.0.1:
  • Make schema compatible with linkedin-to-jsonresume
  • Make toggler menu more efficient (thanks milenagd)
• v3.0.0:
  • Rebuild using Gatsby.

Thanks to

• SEO resume photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash.

F.A.Q.

Q: Can you implement <???> function?

A: I can try. Open a issue and I'll see what I can do.

Q: Your project is awesome. How can I help?

A: Thank you! You can help by codding more features, creating pull requests, or donating via https://bunq.me/BuyMeASoda

TODO

• Add list of recent used documents
• Add option to save a built resume
• Add check for valid spreadsheet URL on text input
• Add various missing error handlers
• Add job offers based on uploaded CV? (check for online APIs)

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 blopa

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Free Software, Hell Yeah!