David Coallier is the CEO of Clearword, a startup that offers a service that automatically creates “meeting summaries with video library.” And he says that, precisely because he is the owner of a startup, enjoy when the resumes you receive include the Github accounts of the candidates “so we can see the tangible work they’ve done.”
Following a tweet by John Resig —creator of JQuery and Chief Software Architect of Khan Academy— in which he stated that when hiring I would prepend a GitHub commit log to any resumeCoallier had the idea of using GitHub as a data source for automatic CV generation.
When it comes to hiring, I’ll take a Github commit log over a resume any day.
— John Resig (@jeresig) February 5, 2011
And he went around what is now GitHub Resumea simple service that allows you to create resumes based solely on your GitHub repositories and activity, making it a potentially useful tool for any programmer.
This is how GitHub Resume works
To generate our resume, The process is very simple: we enter this website, write our username in the web form, click on ‘Generate’ and —ready!— we will have a resume ready to print or to link in any message (provide a sticky URL). Its creator provides some examples (1 and 2) of what the resume would look like, in which we can see what data it echoes:
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Text of our profile.
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URL of our website.
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List of languages we use.
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Name, description and data of our most popular repositories.
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Contributions to other projects.
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Organizations to which we belong.
Although it is important to note that this service does not allow you to generate a CV of any GitHub user just by providing a ‘username‘: Although the information it collects is strictly public, Coallier has preferred that each user who wants to use this tool has to ‘give permission’: the CV will not be created unless we first log in to GitHub and give the project a star. GitHub Resume; at this time it has more than 52,800 stars.
Via | hackernews