Open Resume

Sharing your resume online is a great way to find a job, but the whole process could be a lot more efficient.

The Internet has become a powerful tool for job seekers as many websites have been created to facilitate searching for and applying to jobs. These websites often allow job seekers to submit a copy of their resume to aid them in a job search or application.

As there is currently no standard in how resumes are collected, each website provides its own facility to submit a resume. Submitting a resume to multiple websites is a drain on job seekers' time and creates a lot of unnecessary frustration.

How Open Resume can Help

Open Resume aims to streamline the resume submission process by introducing an open standard for the format of resume data and by encouraging data portability, enabling users to take their resume data with them when they visit other websites.

Benefits for Job Seekers

Open Resume would reduce the amount of time and frustration associated with submitting a resume to multiple websites.

Benefits for Website Owners

The portability of the Open Resume format would reduce the chance of a website's resume submission stage becoming an obstacle to new user acquisition.

The Open Resume Format

For portability and ease of implementation, Open Resume uses JSON, a popular and widely-supported data format.

Please see this example of the Open Resume format.

Implementation

An example implementation of Open Resume in PHP.