Intro
A curriculum vitae (CV), Latin for “course of life,” is a detailed professional document highlighting one’s education, experience and accomplishments. A CV may also include your professional references, as well as coursework, fieldwork, hobbies and interests relevant to your profession.
You might also choose to add a personal profile to your CV that lists your skills and positive attributes to ensure employers have a well-rounded view of your personality and achievements. [1]
Objective
TiddlyWiki is great tool to acts as a Resume Builder
Each piece of information can be stored in a tiddler (no order, create one when you need)
Each category of information uses a tag like
educations
publications
industrial experiences
academic experiences
licenses and certifications
professional associations
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Flexibility to generate a CV on the fly by quick filtering (thanks to Tiddlywiki filters)
Use of templates (to generate CV in different structure and skins)
Simple print to PDF
Ability to publish online by using a reader mode
Crude proposal
Start with an emty.html (TW 5.2.3)
Add required plugins
Timelines from KPL
Shiraz from KPL
Refnotes from KPL
BibTex from OPL
Utility from KPL
Create several professional templates
Use a print.css to generate high-quality nice-looking PDF
Use reader mode to hide all extra menus / tools and generate a public wiki to published online
Expected output
When exported as PDF or published online, we expect something with quality such as professional CVs created by https://www.livecareer.co.uk/ or better. (Below images are taken from web)
Great ideas @Mohammad. This is a space I’d like to see develop further for TiddlyWiki. Maybe we should focus on solving some resume building problems that conventional resume builders don’t solve?
I have my own, more than one in fact, however in all cases it is riddled with personal preference and private details. For me neither are mature enough to be revolutionary, which is odd given tiddlywiki is so flexible.
I agree here, big time, and whilst I can’t share a solution I can pencil out how tiddlywiki could innovate in this field, and highlight the key challenges I have using tiddlywiki for resumes. Perhaps these can help reach @Mohammad stated goals.
Resume innovations
A Personal Career database from which to draw alternative views, only one of which is a resume form.
Help identify skills and experience gaps and planning to address these.
Capture specialist skill and information and develop appropriate responses when needed for an application.
Keyword support for obtaining text used previously to include in new content such as writing the accompanying cover letter.
Tracking applications prepared, applied for and feedback
Allow the development of alternative CV/Resume’s that use the same or selected data.
Regenerate an existing resume with updated content.
Ability to publish online, with additional searchable content, alternative views.
Key Challenge(s) for resumes within tiddlywiki
Print preparation - allowing one to generate a PDF with appropriate and customisable page breaks
Development and use of templates that present the owner in the best light through a high level of design and presentation quality.
This would benefit from the ability to import templates found in the wild, such as word documents and add active content obtained from the career database. Allowing us to import an appropriate “design sensibility”.
Thank you for detail insights. Print and save to pdf with professional layout, good colors, styles is one challenge here.
Having different templates, and UI to let what include in a resume is another challenge
Collect and retrieve information from the internet, for example for an academic person retrieving all publications from Google Scholars or Scopous can help alot.
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I hope you find yourself well. I was just looking at your idea for a CV. to be done in Tiddlywiki. Tiddlywiki looks like it would be the right tool for the job due to it’s flexibility. Now, I know little about these things, but as far as the presentation aspect, I think that the Tiddlywiki alternate layout mechanism (sort of like what Odin created a while back) would lend itself great for such a task. I would definitely love to see an edition come out.
A few years ago, while being unemployed, I was running into an issue where my resume was either being too generic to be effective or too long when made specific. I didn’t want to continue writing a custom resume for each job application. So I put together a resume generator which incorporated this category-driven resume idea that you propose to only include relevant duties/accomplishments for chosen categories.
I have been meaning to share it here so I will dust it off, clear out my personal info and post it once I find some time. It also incorporated a simple to-do, journal, application tracker and contact/company tracker since I found that useful at the time.
The resulting tailored resume had a simple format. But one of the final tasks that I wanted to do before publishing was to interface it into the open-source, JSON-importing resumake.io. It seemed like a pretty nice fit once I sorted out how to export JSON from Tiddlywiki into a format that it uses … which I believe is Schema — JSON Resume.
