Bram Kanstein (@bramk)

The New VisualCV - The easiest way to create a resume that gets the job

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Ufo Nguyen
This is a cool product. Smooth and easy to use. Using it feels like a Wordpress pagebuilder actually. I think it will be cool to be able to embed my visual CV into my "About" page on my personal website. Thanks for the good work! :)
James Clift
@ufo_nguyen Thanks!
Cody Coe
@jamesclift what new features was added or was it just a rebuild/redesign?
James Clift
@cody_coe the basic editor, page breaks, history rollback, and feedback are all new features. https://www.visualcv.com/blog/ne...
Cody Coe
@jamesclift those are super helpful features! With the history rollback, it seems to save the Resume after every time I click out of the editable fields or add new fields, so is it saving all of those revisions and is there like a max number of revisions going into the rollback? It seems like it could become quite a large history with how often things save. I got an email about a "quiet" launch of mobile apps, were those built with React-native? I'm curious if the rebuild on React was prompted by not only the benefit of speed but getting mobile apps too.
James Clift
@cody_coe i'll have to ask my engineers how often we're saving! I think we batch them. The mobile apps will be react + phonegap/cordova.
Cody Coe
@jamesclift do you have any stats on how having a visual resume gives you a better chance of getting hired than a normal one? I've seen stats like that on other resume sites like Kickresume, but wasn't sure how these were quantified or if it was just for marketing purposes
James Clift
@cody_coe it depends on the context. We're not necessarily a "visual resume" tool - you can create a normal resume for a traditional application or something more creative. I do know the combination of traditional resume + really nice web resume is very effective. Anecdotally, we know that a TON of our users are very successful with our product - we are planning some studies to back up that data.
Bardia Nikpourian
Long time user! You guys have a great product.
James Clift
@gandooke thanks!
Joan Mershon
I am not comfortable signing up for something that I cannot see what are the price options and features. If that information is there, it is not easy to find. Not something I will be recommending at this point.
James Clift
@joan thanks for the feedback Joan, I agree we need more detail there.
Peter Mello

So many gorgeous templates, some that turned my idea of what a resume could be on its head. Easily filled all the little details from my LinkedIn page, so all that was left was to conjure up those eloquent humble-brags that are the difference between getting hired and pounding the pavement.

Pros:

Stunning visuals, web hosting with ability to connect to your domain name, allows for several version so you can tailor for several markets

Cons:

No spell checker, but my browser took care of that